Best American Short Stories 2007 - Stephen King, ed.
Pa's darling / Louis Auchincloss -- Toga party / John Barth -- Solid wood / Ann Beattie -- Balto / T.C. Boyle -- Riding the doghouse / Randy DeVita -- My brother Eli / Joseph Epstein -- Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay -- Eleanor's music / Mary Gordon -- L. DeBard and Aliette, a love story / Lauren Groff -- Wake / Beverly Jensen -- Wait / Roy Kesey -- Findings & impressions / Stellar Kim -- Allegiance / Aryn Kyle -- Boy in Zaquitos / Bruce McAllister -- Dimension / Alice Munro -- Bris / Eileen Pollack -- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / Karen Russell -- Horseman / Richard Russo -- Sans farine / Jim Shepard -- Do something / Kate Walbert.

The Boat - Nam Le
Stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea-- while taking us to the heart of what is means to be human.

The Book of Other People - Zadie Smith
Judith Castle / David Mitchell -- Justin M. Damiano / Daniel Clowes -- Frank / A.L. Kennedy -- Gideon / ZZ Packer -- Gordon / Andrew O'Hagan -- Hanwell Snr / Zadie Smith -- J. Johnson / Nick Hornby with Posy Simmonds -- LéLé / Edwidge Danticat -- The liar / Aleksandar Hemon -- Jordan Wellington Lint / Chris Ware -- Magda Mandela / Hari Kunzru -- The monster / Toby Litt -- Nigora / Adam Thirlwell -- Judge Gladys Parks-Schultz / Heidi Julavits -- Puppy / George Saunders -- Rhoda / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Soleil / Vendela Vida -- Roy Spivey / Miranda July -- Cindy Stubenstock / A.M. Homes -- Theo / Dave Eggers -- Perkus Tooth / Jonathan Lethem -- Donal Webster / Colm Tóibín -- Newton Wicks / Andrew Sean Greer.

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted - Elizabeth Berg
A compelling anthology of short fiction, including eleven never-before-published pieces, explores the lives of women breaking free of the convention that controls their lives, in a collection that includes "Returns and Exchanges," "Over the Hill and Into the Woods," and the title story, about a woman who goes on a happiness binge after ditching Weight Watchers.

Dangerous Laughter - Steven Milhauser
A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession.

Cat 'n' mouse -- The disappearance of Elaine Coleman -- The room in the attic -- Dangerous laughter -- History of a disturbance -- The dome -- In the reign of Harad IV -- The other town -- The tower -- Here at the historical society -- A change in fashion -- A precursor of the cinema -- The wizard of West Orange.

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - edited and introduced by David Sedaris
Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro -- Applause, applause / Jean Thompson -- I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- The best of Betty / Jincy Willett -- Song of the spirit, 1941 / Dorothy Parker -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Irish girl / Tim Johnston -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.

My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead : Great love stories from Chekhow to Munro- Jeffrey Eugenides, ed.
First love and other sorrows / Harold Brodkey -- The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov -- Love / Grace Paley -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The dead / James Joyce -- Dirty wedding / Denis Johnson -- Natasha / David Bezmozgis -- Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg -- The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera -- Lovers of their time / William Trevoro -- Mouche / Guy de Maupassant -- The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov -- Yours / Mary Robison -- The bad thing / David Gates -- First love / Isaac Babel -- Tonka / Robert Musil -- Jon / George Saunders -- Red rose, white rose / Eileen Chang -- Fireworks / Richard Ford -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- Innocence / Harold Brodkey -- The bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro.

This is Not Chick Lit - Elizabeth Merrick, ed.
Introduction: why chick lit matters / Elizabeth Merrick -- The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Two days / Aimee Bender -- An open letter to Doctor X / Francine Prose -- Gabe / Holiday Reinhorn -- Documents of passion love / Carolyn Ferrell -- Volunteers are shining stars / Curtis Sittenfeld -- Selling the General / Jennifer Egan -- The seventy-two ounce steak challenge / Dika Lam -- Love machine / Samantha Hunt -- Ava Bean / Jennifer S. Davis -- Embrace / Roxana Robinson -- The epiphany branch / Mary Gordon -- Joan, Jeanne, La Pucelle, Maid of Orléans / Judy Budnitz -- Gabriella, my heart / Cristina Henríquez -- The red coat / Caitlin Macy -- The Matthew effect / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- The recipe / Lynne Tillman -- Meaning of ends / Martha Witt.

The View from the Seventh Layer - Kevin Brockmeier
In these three stories, a young, asocial woman remembers the oddly honest things she wrote in her high school classmates' yearbooks and contemplates her scarred life, imagining an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity. A formerly dull and turgid pastor is touched by a spirit that turns his sermons into crowd-pleasers--that is, until he discovers his inspiration is a little less than divine. And a choose-your-own-adventure novel for grown-ups concludes the volume.

Wild Nights: stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway - Joyce Carol Oates
Re-imagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in the subtly nuanced language style of each.

Collected Stories - Roald Dahl
An African story -- Only this -- Katina -- Beware of the dog -- They shall not grow old -- Someone like you -- Death of an old old man -- Madame Rosette -- A piece of cake -- Yesterday was beautiful -- Nunc Dimittis -- Skin -- Man from the South -- The soldier -- The sound machine -- Mr Botibol -- Vengeance is Mine Inc. -- The wish -- Poison -- Taste -- Dip in the pool -- The great automatic grammatizator -- Claud's dog: The ratcatcher ; Rummins ; Mr Hoddy ; Mr Feasey -- My lady love, my dove -- Neck -- Lamb to the slaughter -- Galloping Foxley -- Edward the Conqueror -- The way up to Heaven -- William and Mary -- Parson's pleasure -- George Porgy -- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat -- Royal jelly -- The champion of the world -- Genesis and catastrophe -- Pig -- The landlady -- The visitor -- The last act -- The great switcheroo -- The butler -- Bitch -- Ah, sweet mystery of life -- The hitchhiker -- The umbrella man -- The bookseller -- The surgeon.

No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
The shared piano -- The swim team -- Majesty -- The man on the stairs -- The sister -- This person -- It was romance -- Something that needs nothing -- I kiss a door -- The boy from Lam Kien -- Making love in 2003 -- Ten true things -- The moves -- Mon plaisir -- Birthmark -- How to tell stories to children.

Our Story Begins - Tobias Wolff

Ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display Wolff's mastery over a quarter century.

Presence - Arthur Miller
"Throughout his career as one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller wrote a series of short stories, pieces that reveal the same insight, humanism, and empathy that are the hallmarks of his dramatic works. Presence is a collection of Miller's last published fiction - pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and elsewhere - and like his previous collections, it presents a series of portraits of characters transformed by the ineffable."--BOOK JACKET

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed earth -- Hell-heaven -- A choice of accommodations -- Only goodness -- Nobody's business -- Hema and Kaushik -- Once in a lifetime -- Year's end -- Going ashore.