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The Best American Short Stories 2026

The Best American Short Stories 2026

(Pre-order, Oct 20 2026)

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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.

Viet Thanh Nguyen—Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Sympathizer—selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, and many more. He is a professor at the University of Southern California

Nicole A. Lamy was the books editor of the Boston Globe, where she expanded books coverage, including a reader advice column called Match Book, which she subsequently wrote for the New York Times Book Review. In addition to book reviews and features she has written about food, photography, and parenting among other topics for the Globe, the Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, and the American Scholar.  

 

  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Publish Date: October 20, 2026
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Type: Paperback
  • EAN/UPC: 9780063399853
  • Dimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.7 lb Wt
  • BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction
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