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These story collections are inter-connected in some way. They will have recurring characters or portray a sense of place. Collections that have been published in novel form, such as Olive Kitteridge, would be welcome in this list.
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And So I Took Their Eye
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Snow in May: Stories
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Side Jobs (The Dresden Files, #12.5)
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Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett, #17)
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Viriconium (Viriconium, #1-4)
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Constable in the Dale (Constable #5)
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When There's Nowhere Else to Run
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The Periodic Table
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Sukiyaki de Domingo
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Bleed
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The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
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The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text
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Small Change
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Kolyma Tales
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What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories
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Shots Fired
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Rattlebone
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People From My Neighbourhood
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The View from the Top
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The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)
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Thirteen Storeys
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The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
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The King In Yellow
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Self-Reference ENGINE
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The Dance Boots
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Honeycomb
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Turbulence
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Island: The Complete Stories
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The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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Fiona and Jane
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Sina
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Born With A Tooth
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Punktown
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Lot
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The Sing of the Shore
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Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Callahan's, #2)
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Flower Children
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Hungry Hearts
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Union Street
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Bailey's Café
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Diving Belles
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Later, at the Bar
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Linden Hills
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Open Secrets
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After the Quake
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The Men of Brewster Place
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The Love of a Good Woman
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
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The Children of Ham
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
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Dear Life
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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Troublemaker and Other Saints
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Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories
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Selected Stories
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In a Glass Darkly
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The Circus In Winter
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What the Zhang Boys Know
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Normal People Don't Live Like This
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Bodies in Motion
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
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Mary and O'Neil
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Anything Is Possible (Amgash, #2)
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These Precious Days: Essays
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The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories
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North Woods
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
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Alentejo Blue
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The Overstory
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There's Something I Want You to Do
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Wyoming Stories
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The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes
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The Coast of Good Intentions
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Brownsville: Stories
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Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
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Little Raw Souls
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Vinyl Cafe Unplugged (Vinyl Cafe, #3)
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A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
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Shakespeare's Kitchen
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The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories
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A Taste of Honey: Stories
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Rhoda: A Life in Stories
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The Informers
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Varieties of Exile
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The Wonders of the Invisible World
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Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
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The Development: Nine Stories
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Kentucky Straight: Stories
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Shiloh and Other Stories
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Whites
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Bloodline: Five Stories
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The Old Order: Stories of the South
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The Old Forest and Other Stories
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A Tidewater Morning
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Same Place, Same Things
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I Sailed with Magellan
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BookLovingLady wrote: "~☆~Autumn♥♥☔ wrote: "The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories seems to be here twice. Probably a merge needs to be done."I performed a duplicate check but the system found ..."
Thanks! The covers are different but it is the same book.
Number 175 The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories and number 31 The Country of the Pointed Firs. Computer froze up on me!
Ah .... The difference is the 'other stories' 😉 (which is why it didn't 'merge' in the duplicate check)
Are so called “decimal” collections OK? book:Stars Above|25689074] by Marissa Meyer is a collection of the short stories written in between (e.g. 1.5j long books in the Lunar series. All the characters are linked to the series. I also added a short story collection by Ann Patchett that is also tagged as a memoir.
NancyJ wrote: "Are so called “decimal” collections OK? book:Stars Above|25689074] by Marissa Meyer is a collection of the short stories written in between (e.g. 1.5j long books in the Lunar series. All the charac..."Sounds perfect!
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