Faber Stories Books in Order

48
Books
1955
First Book
2022
Latest Book
68
Years

Below you'll find the complete list of Faber Stories books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.

Reading order verified: January 2026

Publication Order

1

A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)

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1955

2

The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)

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1968

3

Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)

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1982

4

Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)

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1983

5

Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)

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1989

6

Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)

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1997

7

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)

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1998

8

An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)

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2009

9

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)

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2011

10

The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)

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2012

11

Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)

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2014

12

Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)

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2014

13

Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)

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2016

14

Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)

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2019

15

The Victim (By: P.D. James)

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2019

16

Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)

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2019

17

Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)

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2019

18

Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)

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2019

19

The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)

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2019

20

Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)

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2019

21

Terrific Mother

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2019

22

The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)

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2019

23

The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)

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2019

24

Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)

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2019

25

A River in Egypt (By: David Means)

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2019

26

Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)

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2019

27

Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)

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2019

28

Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)

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2019

29

Points of View

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1956

30

New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties

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1986

31

The Best American Short Stories 1991

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1991

32

The Literary Traveller

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1994

33

Granta 54

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1996

34

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood

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1998

35

Ploughshares Fall, 1998

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1998

36

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

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1999

37

Wonderful Town

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2000

38

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

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2000

39

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

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2002

40

PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction

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2002

41

The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles

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2004

42

The Best American Short Stories 2004

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2004

43

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

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2005

44

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

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2007

45

Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

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2012

46

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

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2015

47

Daedalus: On the Novel: 150:1, Winter 2021

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2021

48

The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners

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2022

Frequently Asked Questions

The recommended reading order for the Faber Stories series is publication order: 1. A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor) (1955), 2. The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman) (1968), 3. Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain) (1982), 4. Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann) (1983), 5. Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver) (1989), and 43 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.

The Faber Stories series by Lorrie Moore contains 48 books. The series began in 1955 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.

The Faber Stories series is written by Lorrie Moore. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.

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