Paperback Anthologies:
1. The Best American Short Stories Series One of these is issued every year. The cost is $9-12.
2. The Best American Short Stories of the Century Mariner Books, ISBN: 0395843677 $12.69 Includes stories by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others.
3. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories Vintage Books, ISBN: 0679745130 $14.42 Includes Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona," and others.
4. Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century Dell, ISBN: 0440378648 $8.99 Includes “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D. H. Lawrence, “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, “The Sojourner” by Carson McCullers,“The Open Window” by Saki,“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter,“The Boarding House” by James Joyce,“Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway,“The Tree of Knowledge” by Henry James,“Why I Live at the P.O”. by Eudora Welty, and others.
5. The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction Ecco, ISBN: 0061661589 $14.29 Includes” The toughest Indian in the world” by Sherman Alexie, “The love of my life” by T.C. Boyle, “The son of the wolfman” by Michael Chabon, “Aurora” by Junot Díaz, “A house on the Plains” by E.L. Doctorow, “Disaster stamps of Pluto” by Louise Erdrich, “The girl on the plane” by Mary Gaitskill, “Land. Ll” by Joyce Carol Oates, “On the rainy river” by Tim O'Brien, “The escort” by Chuck Palahniuk, “The brown chest” by John Updike, “Incarnations of burned children” by David Foster Wallace, and others.