SSM Reading List: "Debut Story Collections"

by Laura van den Berg

- Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

- The Language of Elk by Benjamin Percy

- Once the Shore by Paul Yoon

- Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth

- Big World by Mary Miller

- In the Devil’s Territory by Kyle Minor

- Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti

- Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel

- Self-Help by Lorrie Moore

- Famous Fathers and Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender

- The Point by Charles D’Ambrosio

- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

- Yellow by Don Lee

- Drown by Junot Díaz

(Recommended Reading 5/09)