Beat the Backlist 2024 - hosted by austinedecker

anthology or omnibus edition
either a collection of short stories or other volumes, as long as they're all bound up together
All books added
Tales from Russian Folklore: New Translation by Alexander Afanasyev

Tales from Russian Folklore: New Translation

Alexander Afanasyev

320 pages • paperback

fiction classics adventurous medium-paced
All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology by Jen Calonita, Carey Corp, Karen Anne Buljo, Diana Peterfreund, Delilah S. Dawson, Vera Strange, Mari Mancusi, Tiffany Schmidt, Lorie Langdon, Lou Anders

All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology

Jen Calonita, Carey Corp, Karen Anne Buljo, Diana Peterfreund, Delilah S. Dawson, Vera Strange, Mari Mancusi, Tiffany Schmidt, Lorie Langdon, Lou Anders

222 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

fiction fantasy magical realism middle grade short stories medium-paced
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow

Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous

Ellen Datlow

478 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
You Like It Darker by Stephen King

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

512 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction horror short stories thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

8 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Anne Fadiman

162 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction essays memoir lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
Bewitched And Haunted by John Hollander

Bewitched And Haunted

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

John Hollander

256 pages • hardcover • 2005

fiction poetry dark reflective medium-paced
Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume Two by Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume Two

Neil Clarke

561 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories speculative fiction
Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson

Arcanum Unbounded

The Cosmere

Brandon Sanderson

672 pages • paperback • 2016

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Life of Anna: The Complete Story by Marissa Honeycutt

The Life of Anna: The Complete Story

The Life of Anna #1-5

Marissa Honeycutt

2024 pages • digital • 2015

fiction romance thriller dark emotional sad medium-paced