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The Best American short stories, 2000-2019
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2000: Black elvis / Geoffrey Becker
The story / Amy Bloom
The beautiful days / Michael Byers
The ordinary son / Ron Carlson
Call if you need me / Raymond Carver
Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport
Nilda / Junot D'iaz
The gilgul of park avenue / Nathan Englander
The fix / Percival Everett
Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux
He's at the office / Allan Gurganus
Blind Jozef Pronek / Aleksandar Hemon
The anointed / Kathleen Hill
The bridegroom / Ha Jin
The thing around them / Marilyn Krysl
The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri
Pet fly / Walter Mosley
Brownies / ZZ Packer
Allog / Edith Pearlman
People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx
Basil the dog / Frances Sherwood.
2001: Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett
The fireman / Rick Bass
Think of England / Peter Ho Davies
Labors of the heart / Claire Davis
The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver
After cowboy chicken came to town / Ha Jin
Brothers and sisters around the world / Andrea Lee
Boys / Rick Moody
Rug weaver / Barbara Klein Moss
Post and beam / Alice Munro
The raft / Peter Orner
Betty Hutton / Roy Parvin
Illumination / Nancy Reisman
The secrets of bats / Jess Row
Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford
My mother's garden / Katherine Shonk
What I saw from where I stood / Marisa Silver
The apple tree / Trevanian
Personal archeology / John Updike
My baby... / Dorothy West.
2002: Along the frontage road / Michael Chabon
The sugar-tit / Carolyn Cooke
The red ant house / Ann Cummins
Seven / Edwidge Danticat
A house on the plains / E.L. Doctorow
Puppy / Richard Ford
The heifer / Melissa Hardy
Zilkowski's theorem / Karl Iagnemma
Nobody's business / Jhumpa Lahiri
Digging / Beth Lordan
In case we're separated / Alice Mattison
Billy goats / Jill McCorkle
Watermelon days / Tom McNeal
Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels
Bulldog / Arthur Miller
The rug / Meg Mullins
Family furnishings / Alice Munro
Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma
Love and hydrogen / Jim Shepard
Aftermath / Mary Yukari Waters.
2003: Rationing / Mary Yukari Waters
Mines / Susan Straight
Coins / Mona Simpson
Heaven Lake / Jess Row
Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau
Ghost knife / Sharon Pomerantz
Marie-Ange's ginen / Marilene Phipps
Moriya / Dean Paschal
Every tongue shall confess / ZZ Packer
Future emergencies / Nicole Krauss
Devotion / Adam Haslett
Why the sky turns red when the sun goes down / Ryan Harty
Shamengwa / Louise Erdrich
The shell collector / Anthony Doerr
Baby Wilson / E.L. Doctorow
Night talkers / Edwidge Danticat
Johnny Hamburger / Rand Richards Cooper
The bees / Dan Chaon
Space / Kevin Brockmeier
Compassion / Dorothy Allison.
2004: What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie
Tooth and claw / T. Corahessan Boyle
Written in stone / Catherine Brady
Accomplice / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Screenwriter / Charles D'Ambrosio
Breasts / Stuart Dybek
Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg
Grace / Paula Fox
Tutor / Nell Freudenberger
Rich man / Edward P. Jones
Limestone diner / Trudy Lewis
Intervention / Jill McCorkle
Gallatin Canyon / Thomas McGuane
Runaway / Alice Munro
All Saints Day / Angela Pneuman
What kind of furniture would Jesus pick? / Annie Proulx
Docent / R. T. Smith
Walk with Elizanne / John Updike
Mirror studies / Mary Yukari Waters
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence / John Edgar Wideman.
2005: Introduction / Michael Chabon
The smile on happy chang's face / Tom Perrotta
Until Gwen / Dennis Lehane
A taste of dust / Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Old friends / Thomas McGuane
Eight pieces for the left hand / J. Robert Lennon
Stone animals / Kelly Link
First four measures / Nathaniel Bellows
The scheme of things / Charles D'Ambrosio
Silence / Alice Munro
Death defier / Tom Bissell
The girls / Joy Williams
Anda's game / Cory Doctorow
Simple exercises for the beginning student / Alix Ohlin
Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones
The secret goldfish / David Means
The cousins / Joyce Carol Oates
Natasha / David Bezmozgis
Hart and boot / Tim Pratt
Justice shiva ram murthy / Rishi Reddi
Bohemians / George Saunders.
2006: Introduction / Ann Patchett
Once the shore / Paul Yoon
Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff
The ambush / Donna Tartt
Secret / Maxine Swann
Dominion / Mark Slouka
So much for Artemis / Patrick Ryan
Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy
Self-reliance / Edith Pearlman
The view from Castle Rock / Alice Munro
Tattooizm / Kevin Moffett
Cowboy / Thomas McGuane
The dog / Jack Livings
After a life / Yiyun Li
The conductor / Aleksander Hemon
Today I'm yours / Mary Gaitskill
How we avenged the Blums / Nathan Englander
Grandmother's nose / Robert Coover
A new gravestone for an old grave / David Bezmozgis
The casual car pool / Katherine Bell
Mr. Nobody at all / Anne Beattie with Harry Mathews.
2007: Introduction / Stephen King
Pa's darling / Louis Auchincloss
Toga party / John Barth
Solid wood / Ann Beattie
Balto / T.C.Boyle
Riding the doghouse / Randy Devita
My brother Eli / Joseph Epstein
Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay
Eleanor's music / Mary Gordon
L. DeBard and aliette: a love story / Lauren Groff
Wake / Beverly Jensen
Wait / Roy Kesey
Findings & impressions / Stellar Kim
Allegiance / Aryn Kyle
The boy in Zaquitos / Bruce McAllister
Dimension / Alice Munro
The Bris / Eileen Pollack
St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / Karen Russell
Horseman / Richard Russo
Sans Farine / Jim Shepard
Do something / Kate Walbert.
2008: Admiral / T.C. Boyle
The Year of Silence / Kevin Brockmeier
Galatea / Karen Brown
Man and Wife / Katie Chase
Virgins / Danielle Evans
Closely Held / Allegra Goodman
May We Be Forgiven / A. M. Homes
From the Desk of Daniel Varsky / Nicole Krauss
The King of Sentences / Jonatha Lethem
The Worst You Ever Feel / Rebecca Makkai
The Wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser
Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin
Child's Play / Alice Munro
Buying Lenin / Miroslav Penkov
Vampires in the Lemon Grove / Karen Russell
Puppy / George Saunders
Quality of Life / Christine Sneed
Missionaries / Bradford Tice
Straightaway / Mark Wisniewski
Bible / Tobias Wolff
2009: The Idiot President / Daniel Alarcon
Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Rubiaux Rising / Steve De Jarnatt
Beyond the Pale / Joseph Epstein
A Shadow Table / Alice Fulton
NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld
The Farms / Eleanor Henderson
Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek
Hurricanes Anonymous / Adam Johnson
The Anniversary Trip / Victoria Lancelotta
A Man Like Him / Yiyun Li
The Briefcase / Rebecca Makkai
Magic Words / Jill McCorkle
One Dog Year / Kevin Moffett
Modulation / Richard Powers
Them Old Cowboy Songs / Annie Proulx
Into the Gorge / Ron Rash
Ostracon / Alex Rose
The Peripatetic Coffin / Ethan Rutherford
Muzungu / Namwali Serpell
2010: Donkey Greedy, Donkey gets punched / Steve Almond
Into silence / Marlin Barton
The cousins / Charles baxter
Safari / Jennifer Egan
Some ought to tell her there's nowhere to go / Danielle Evans
Valetudinarian / Joshua Ferris
Delicate edible birds / Lauren Groff
Least resistance / Wayne Harrison.
2011: Introduction / Geraldine Brooks
Ceiling / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Housewifely arts / Megan Mayhew Bergman
A bridge under water / Tom Bissell
Out of body / Jennifer Egan
Free fruit for young widows / Nathan Englander
La vita nuova / Allegra Goodman
Gurov in Manhattan / Ehud Havazelet
The sleep / Caitlin Horrocks
Soldier of fortune / Bret Anthony Johnston
Foster / Claire Keegan
The dungeon master / Sam Lipsyte
Peter Torrelli, falling apart / Rebecca Makkai
Property / Elizabeth McCracken
Phantoms / Steven Millhauser
Dog bites / Ricardo Nuila
ID / Joyce Carol Oates
To the measures fall / Richard Powers
The call of blood / Jess Row
Escape from Spiderhead / George Saunders
The hare's mask / Mark Slouka.
2012: The last speaker of the language / Carol Anshaw
Pilgrim life / Taylor Antrim
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander
The other place / Mary Gaitskill
North Country / Roxane Gay
Paramour / Jennifer Haigh
Navigators / Mike Meginnis
Miracle polish / Steven Millhauser
Axis / Alice Munro
Volcano / Lawrence Osborne
Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka
Honeydew / Edith Pearlman
Occupational hazard / Angela Pneuman
Beautiful monsters / Eric Puchner
Tenth of December / George Saunders
The sex lives of African girls / Taiye Selasi
Alive / Sharon Solwitz
M&M world / Kate Walbert
Anything helps / Jess Walter
What's important is feeling / Adam Wilson.
2013: The provincials / Daniel Alarcón
Bravery / Charles Baxter
Malaria / Michael Byers
Miss Lora / Junot Díaz
Horned men / Karl Taro Greenfield
The third dumpster / Gish Jen
Encounters with unexpected animals / Bret Anthony Johnston
Magic man / Sheila Kohler
The chair / David Means
A voice in the night / Steven Millhauser
Referential / Lorrie Moore
Train / Alice Munro
Chapter two / Antonya Nelson
Nemecia / Kristin Valdez Quade
Philanthropy / Suzanne Rivecca
The Semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders
The world to come / Jim Shepard
The wilderness / Elizabeth Tallent
The tunnel, or The news from Spain / Joan Wickersham
Breatharians / Callan Wink.
2014: Charity / Charles Baxter
The Indian uprising / Ann Beattie
The night of the satellite / T.C. Boyle
After the flood / Peter Cameron
Long Tom Lookout / Nicole Cullen
Medium tough / Craig Davidson
The breeze / Joshua Ferris
Hover / Nell Freudenberger
A hand reached down to guide me / David Gates
At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff
The judge's will / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Evie M. / O.A. Lindsey
Kattekoppen / Will Mackin
This is not a love song / Brendan Mathews
La Pulchra Nota / Molly McNett
God / Benjamin Nugent
Mastiff / Joyce Carol Oates
Next to nothing / Stephen O'Connor
Madame Bovary's greyhound / Karen Russell
Antarctica / Laura Van Den Berg.
2015: The siege at Whale Cay / Megan Mayhew Bergman
Fingerprints / Justin Bigos
Happy endings / Kevin Canty
Moving on / Diane Cook
Bride / Julia Elliott
The big cat / Louise Erdrich
You'll apologize if you have to / Ben Fowlkes
The fugue / Arna Bontemps Hemenway
The largesse of the sea maiden / Denis Johnson
M & L / Sarah Kokernot
Jack, July / Victor Lodato
Sh'khol / Colum McCann
Thunderstruck / Elizabeth McCracken
Motherlode / Thomas McGuane
Madame Lazarus / Maile Meloy
Kavitah and mustafa / Shobha Rao
About my aunt / Joan Silber
North / Aria Beth Sloss
Unsafe at any speed / Laura Lee Smith
Mr. Voice / Jess Walter .
2016: Apollo / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ravalushan / Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Garments / Tahmima Anam
Wonders of the shore / Andrea Barrett
The bears / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The great silence / Ted Chiang
The flower / Louise Erdrich
The Letician Age / Yalitza Ferreras
For the god of love, for the love of god / Lauren Groff
The suitcase / Meron Hadero
Treasure state / Smith Henderson
Pat + Sam / Lisa Ko
Cold little bird / Ben Marcus
The politics of the quotidian / Caille Millner
Bridge / Daniel J. O'Malley
The prospectors / Karen Russell
On this side / Yuko Sakata
Gifted / Sharon Solwitz
Secret stream / Héctor Tobar
Williamsburg Bridge / John Edgar Wideman.
2017: Maidencane / Chad B. Anderson
Are we not men? / T. C. Boyle
God's work / Kevin Canty
A small sacrifice for an enormous happiness / Jai Chakrabarti
Arcadia / Emma Cline
Hog for sorrow / Leopoldine Core
Campoamor / Patricia Engel
Richard of York gave battle in vain / Danielle Evans
Ugly / Mary Gordon
The midnight zone / Lauren Groff
The Chicane / Amy Hempel
Tally / Noy Holland
Gabe Dove / Sonya Larson
Let's go to the videotape / Fiona Maazel
Ancient Rome / Kyle McCarthy
Last day on earth / Eric Puchner
Novostroïka / Maria Reva
Telemachus / Jim Shepherd
Gender Studies / Curtis Sittenfeld
Famous actor / Jess Walter.
2018: Cougar / Maria Anderson
A family / Jamel Brinkley
The art of losing / Yoon Choi
Los Angeles / Emma Cline
Unearth / Alicia Elliott
Boys go to Jupiter / Danielle Evans
A history of China / Carolyn Ferrell
Come on, Silver / Ann Glaviano
What got into us / Jacob Guajardo
Everything is far from here / Cristina Henríquez
Good with boys / Kristen Iskandrian
Control Negro / Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
The Brothers Brujo / Matthew Lyons
A big true / Dina Nayeri
Items awaiting protective enclosure / Téa Obreht
The baptism / Ron Rash
Suburbia! / Amy Silverberg
The prairie wife / Curtis Sittenfeld
Whose heart I long to stop with the click of a revolver / Rivers Solomon
What terrible thing it was / Esmé Weijun Wang.
2019: The era / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Natural light / Kathleen Alcott
The great interruption : the story of a famou story of Old Port Wailliam and how it ceased to be told (1935-1978) / Wendell Berry
No more than a bubble / Jamel Brinkley
The third tower / Deborah Eisenberg
Hillion / Julia Elliott
Bronze / Jeffrey Eugenides
Protozoa / Ella Martinsen Gorham
Seein ershadi / Nicole Krauss
Pity and shame / Ursula K. Le Guin
Anyone can do it / Manuel Muñoz
The plan / Sigrid Nunez
Letter of apology / Maria Reva
Black corfu / Karen Russell
Audition / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Natural disasters / Alexis Schaitkin
Our day of grace / Jim Shepard
Wrong object / Mona Simpson
They told us not to say this / Jenn Alandy Trahan
Omakase / Weike Wang.
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97813284842462019
97805479394072015
97805478192282014
97805445827672017
97805445827502016
97805472420882011
97805475548222013
97805472420952012
97805445828802018
97805479394072015
97805478192282014
97805445827672017
97805445827502016
97805472420882011
97805475548222013
97805472420952012
97805445828802018