Take Time to Read – Contemporary Titles
If the classics are not your cup of tea, try out some of these newer fiction and short story collections:
- American Housewife by Helen Ellis, 188 pages
- The Terrorist’s Son by Zak Ebrahim, 96 pages (biography)
- Not so Much, Said the Cat by Michael Swanwick, short stories
- The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan, 89 pages
- A Long Time Dead: a Mike Hammer Casebook by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, short stories
- Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories by Caroline M. Yoachim, short stories
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan, 197 pages
- Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas, short stories
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, 173 pages
- November Storm by Robert Oldshue, 141 pages (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
- Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller, short stories
- Eternal Frankenstein edited by Ross E. Lockhart, short story anthology paying homage to Mary Shelley
- Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes, short stories
- Mosquito Rain : Alaskan Travel Essays by Dan Szczesny, 53 pages
- Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken, short stories
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer : a novella by Fredrik Bachman, 76 pages
