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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: March 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 25 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
Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards
2000
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
2003
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
2004
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006
2006
Best American Fantasy
2007
The United States of McSweeney's
2009
Real Unreal
2010
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
2010
Electric Literature No. 5
2010
Astoria to Zion
2013
Unstuck #3
2014
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2015
2015
9 Stories on the Magic of Cities
2018
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