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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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Cloud Atlas
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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Let the Great World Spin
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Winesburg, Ohio
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The Things They Carried
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Jesus’ Son
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Dubliners
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
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The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories
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Ghostwritten
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And the Mountains Echoed
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The Martian Chronicles
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Claire of the Sea Light
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The Women of Brewster Place
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
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The Bone Clocks
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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
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City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
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Love Medicine
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God Is Dead
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Eve in Hollywood
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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Krik? Krak!
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Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories
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I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
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The Carpet Makers
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The Shore
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Knockemstiff
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A Bird in the House
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A Portable Shelter
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How High We Go in the Dark
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3.82 avg rating — 68,615 ratings
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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M Is for Magic
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 18,841 ratings
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
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Go Down, Moses
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 17,232 ratings
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Slade House
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The High Heart
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The Cyberiad
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Life Ceremony
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The Shell Collector
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Haunted
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Pastures of Heaven
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The Plague of Doves
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Lost in the City
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The House on Mango Street
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Runaway: Stories
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The Imperfectionists
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Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5)
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The Red Garden
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Blackbird House
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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Kissing in Manhattan: Stories
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Postcards
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The Maples Stories
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Burning Bright
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The Beach at Galle Road: Stories from Sri Lanka
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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Hell's Bottom, Colorado
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3.90 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Poachers: Stories
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
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Old New York
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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
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The New York Stories of Henry James
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Battleborn
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Paris Stories
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Chemistry and Other Stories
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
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Let The Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series)
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Knight's Gambit
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Hunting the Wild Pineapple
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
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The New York Stories
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Only the Animals
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Impossible Object (British Literature Series)
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Given Ground
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Dreams Underfoot (Newford, #1)
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Happy Trails to You
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The Big Smoke
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The Golden Apples
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Between Friends
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Slaves of New York
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Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
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Girl Reading
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Cozy Bumpkin Stories
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Constable By The Sea (Constable #6)
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Tales of Nevèrÿon
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The Cat and The City
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Noites das Mil e uma Noites
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Natural History
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4)
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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
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Cracks
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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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I performed a duplicate check but the system found no duplicates ...