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Selected Shorts Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Selected Shorts books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Selected Shorts series? Start with "For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)" (1993) and follow publication order through all 35 books.
The complete Selected Shorts reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever,Tessa Hadley,John Biguenet,Adam Haslett,Rattawut Lapcharoensap,Symphony Space,Galina Vromen)
2007
Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford,Tobias Wolff,Aleksandar Hemon,William Hurt,Ron Carlson,Symphony Space)
2009
American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe,Joyce Carol Oates,Eudora Welty,John Cheever,Alice Walker,Donald Barthelme,John Sayles,Amy Tan,Symphony Space)
2010
New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie,Jhumpa Lahiri,Aleksandar Hemon,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Symphony Space)
2011
Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Points of View
1956
Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards
1973
Prize Stories 1974: The O'Henry Awards
1974
The Best American Short Stories 1982
1982
The Best American Short Stories 1986
1986
American Short Story Masterpieces
1987
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
1992
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
1992
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
1993
The New Mystery
1993
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
American Gothic Tales
1996
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
Granta 68: Love Stories
1999
Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards
2000
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
2002
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
Birthday Stories
2004
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents
2008
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