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The Best American Short Stories 2026
Audio Book
Fiction AnthologiesLiterary Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Oct 20 2026
Language: English
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer.
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
Viet Thanh Nguyen--Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Sympathizer--selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.
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