Beat the Backlist 2021 - hosted by austinedecker

anthology
 here is where you can play the anthology card, short stories generally around a theme with one or more editors 
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Sarah MacLean, Joanna Shupe, Sophie Jordan, Tessa Dare

How the Dukes Stole Christmas

Sarah MacLean, Joanna Shupe, Sophie Jordan, Tessa Dare

443 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction romance lighthearted medium-paced
Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology by Claire Bartlett, Elizabeth Davis, Jennifer Mace, Alison Tam, Django Wexler, Cara Patterson, Chris Wolfgang, Ellen Kushner, K.A. Doore, Neon Yang, Aliette de Bodard, Ann Leblanc, Yoon Ha Lee, S.K. Terentiev, Freya Marske

Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology

Claire Bartlett, Elizabeth Davis, Jennifer Mace, Alison Tam, Django Wexler, Cara Patterson, Chris Wolfgang, Ellen Kushner, K.A. Doore, Neon Yang, Aliette de Bodard, Ann Leblanc, Yoon Ha Lee, S.K. Terentiev, Freya Marske

361 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction short stories speculative fiction adventurous medium-paced
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

156 pages • first pub 1924 (editions)

fiction classics short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler

His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

Dahlia Adler

470 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction horror short stories young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman by Tony Barnstone

Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman

Tony Barnstone

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction horror poetry adventurous informative medium-paced
A Cold Hard Collection by K.L. Hiers

A Cold Hard Collection

Cold Hard Cash #3

K.L. Hiers

missing page info • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction erotica lgbtqia+ romance short stories dark emotional fast-paced
The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath

The Smallest of Bones

Holly Lyn Walrath

88 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction horror poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works : Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works : Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

864 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective medium-paced
Blackout by Angie Thomas, Dhonielle Clayton, Ashley Woodfolk, Nic Stone, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson

Blackout

Angie Thomas, Dhonielle Clayton, Ashley Woodfolk, Nic Stone, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance short stories young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced