Any Short Story recommendations?

[cafolini]

The problem with buying Borges I think is money. The last time I looked at it, it was very expensive.

[bookowskee]

^ Ok, understood. If that's an issue, there's always free ebooks in the internet. Not sure if you prefer ebooks over hard copies (I prefer hard copies, of course), but if you want one (ebook of ficciones) just say so. I know where to get it.

[Seasider]

Anything by James Thurber but especially The Night the Bed Fell and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

[ashulman]

You need collections by
Checkov
Kafka
Babel
Borges
O'Conner
Tolstoy

Tolstoy's stories in particular are a great intro to him rather than delving into the longer works.

[bookowskee]

Does anybody here read the short stories of Turgenev? It came highly recommended by Hemingway in his book, A Moveable Feast.

Anyway, here's more:

Bagombo Snuff Box - Vonnegut
Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Collection of Dostoevsky's short fictions particularly The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Pixel Juice - Jeff Noon
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Collected Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Julio Cortazar's short stories
Insanity Defense - Woody Allen

And, yes, Kafka. Begin with Investigations of a Dog

[ralfyman]

Try anthologies like The World of the Short Story and Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.

[hazelk]

I have a great collection of short stories, a few that I can recommend,
All by Annie Proulx

Jane Gardam " People of Privelage Hill"

Tracy Winn "Mrs Somebody Somebody",

Tim Gautrex "Same PLace, Same Things"

My latest that I am just adoring is by Mark Spragg "Where Rivers Change Direction" this one is a memoir.

[ennison]

Jane Gardam is excellent.

[Jassy Melson]

I recommend The Happy Demise of Hidy the Clown by yours truly. It's posted on this site. Some people don't like the story; most do.

[AuntShecky]

The problem with buying Borges I think is money. The last time I looked at it, it was very expensive.

Do you have a free library where you live? Do you have a library card? If so, you can check out books (real books, books on tape or CD, videos, music CDs, etc.) and keep them for a specified amount of time. If a library doesn't happen to have the book you're looking for, sometimes the staff can order it from another library branch in the system.

Also-- don't forget rummage sales and yard sales.

In all sincerity, though, I understand the frustration when you want a book and can't find it or afford it.

[mal4mac]

Death in Venice (and other stories...) by Thomas Mann
Maupassant - collected short stories.

[ralfyman]

Also,

http://mason.gmu.edu/~ayadav/anthologies

[aaron stark]

I can strongly recommend Hemingway's short stories. They're not that long and tremendously well written. The ones I like best are "Cat in the Rain", "Indian Camp", "Up in Michigan" and "Hills Like White Elephants"

[Nazish]

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Why I live at the P.O - Eudora Welty
Birds - Daphne du Maurier

[maxphisher]

Brendan Behan's collection of short stories, After the Wake, is a great read.