23 Short Story Collections in 2023 - hosted by aishathebibliophile

Collection that plays with form in writing or speculative/surrealism
For experiments in writing style and form; See examples like Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties or Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat 

For surrealism / spec fic 

See examples like Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie; Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross; Tender by Sofia Samatar 
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Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments by Gayl Jones

Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments

Gayl Jones

200 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Where the Wild Ladies Are

Aoko Matsuda

284 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy literary short stories funny mysterious reflective medium-paced
Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang

Gods of Want: Stories

K-Ming Chang

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

Gabriel García Márquez

170 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay

Gunflower

Laura Jean McKay

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary short stories speculative fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor

Edge of Here

Kelechi Okafor

272 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez

208 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction horror magical realism short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

Terminal Boredom

Izumi Suzuki

224 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction dystopian science fiction short stories speculative fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Tender by Sofia Samatar

Tender

Sofia Samatar

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

The Stories of Eva Luna

Isabel Allende

352 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction magical realism short stories adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced