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: January 2026
Publication Order
For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon1993
Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2007
Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2007
Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2007
Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2007
Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever,Tessa Hadley,John Biguenet,Adam Haslett,Rattawut Lapcharoensap,Symphony Space,Galina Vromen)
Buy on Amazon2007
Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2007
Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2008
The William Hurt Collection (With: Tobias Wolff,Aleksandar Hemon,William Hurt,Ron Carlson,Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2009
American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe,Joyce Carol Oates,Eudora Welty,John Cheever,Alice Walker,Donald Barthelme,John Sayles,Amy Tan,Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2010
New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie,Jhumpa Lahiri,Aleksandar Hemon,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2011
Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
Buy on Amazon2012
Granta 40: Richard Ford: The Womanizer
Buy on Amazon1992
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
Buy on Amazon1993
The Granta Book of the American Long Story
Buy on Amazon1993
Granta 62
Buy on Amazon1998
The Best American Sports Writing 1999
Buy on Amazon1999
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Buy on Amazon1999
Writers on Writing
Buy on Amazon2001
Baseball: a Literary Anthology
Buy on Amazon2002
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
Buy on Amazon2003
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
Buy on Amazon2007
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar
Buy on Amazon2011
The Writer's Library
Buy on Amazon2020
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Selected Shorts series is publication order: 1. For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space) (1993), 2. Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space) (2007), 3. Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space) (2007), 4. Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space) (2007), 5. Pets! (By: Symphony Space) (2007), and 19 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Selected Shorts series by Richard Ford contains 24 books. The series began in 1993 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Selected Shorts series is written by Richard Ford. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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