Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.
Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
The Shell Collector
by Anthony Doerr
The Shell Collector is the debut short story collection by Anthony Doerr, featuring eight stories that explore themes of grief, transformation, and human connection, often set in exotic locations like Kenya, Montana, and Lapland.
Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
by Octavia E. Butler
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, and like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages