And if you’ve been looking to get into short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start. We’ve gathered eleven of the best short story collections. Some are contemporary ...

Spread the love “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway “Animal Farm” by George Orwell “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck “The Metamorphosis” by Franz ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re ...

A great short story cannot be topped. When a bunch of great short stories are gathered together in a book, this is even ...

The best one-sitting novels sweep you off your ... In the case of Anna, the protagonist of this short satirical novel, the answer is: get radicalized by Ayn Rand. Deeply in thrall to Rand ...

in the best way possible. Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s short but sweeping novel gives voice to three generations of a ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

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