Books like Altmann's tongue by Brian Evenson

A collection of short stories by George Saunders, featuring unforgettable characters and Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

A New York Times‑reviewed collection of American short stories where a student, a late‑night dinner party and a matchmaker each explore love, loss, and the past.

A collection of experimental short stories that weave memory and moment, exploring the restless mind through lyrical prose, wordplay, and intimate domestic scenes.

Dennis Lehane’s gripping collection of five short stories and a play, “Coronado,” blends suspense, romance, and dark humor to explore American myths of class, gender, and violence.

A detective is coerced into an underground religious cult to investigate a murder, navigating deception, threats, and perilous stakes that far exceed his expectations.

A collection of short works exploring the boundaries between reality and fantasy featuring characters like a knife thrower, ghosts, and a cartoon cat and mouse.

A collection of Jim Shepard’s short stories that has earned recognition in The New York Times.

Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell -- The black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd -- Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown -- Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- The flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis -- Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr -- The concert party / Mavis Gallant -- Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover -- Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy -- Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan -- Displacement / David Wong Louie -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips -- Strays / Mark Richard -- The boy on the train / Arthur Robinson -- The letter writer / M.T. Sharif. Responsibility: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Margaret Atwood.