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Good Books, Mostly Literary Fiction - Page 5

My method was to list one work per author in each Best American Short Stories from 1968 to the most recent one (2021). So in the case of someone like John Updike, he has a lot of works on this list because he was in B.A.S.S. many times. There are around 75 authors from B.A.S.S. 1968 through 2021 who haven't published anything that made sense to go on this list. Most of these books are either short story collections or novels, with a fair number of memoirs and essay collections mixed in. I only included poetry when there wasn't any prose, because although I love poetry, I doubt many people would have read them. I also tried to go for lesser known works, if possible, because I think most of us get sick of seeing the same books over and over. But sometimes I had no choice; for example, Donna Tartt has barely published anything, so I went with The Secret History. I hope to do a second list with the authors from Best American Short Stories 1914 through 1967. I bet that will be much harder.
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Plan B for the Middle Class (Ron Carlson)
Plan B for the Middle Class (Ron Carlson)
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The Speed of Light (Ron Carlson)
The Speed of Light (Ron Carlson)
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Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
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All of Us: The Collected Poems (Raymond Carver)
All of Us: The Collected Poems (Raymond Carver)
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
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Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
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No Heroics, Please (Raymond Carver)
No Heroics, Please (Raymond Carver)
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Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
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Moonglow (Michael Chabon)
Moonglow (Michael Chabon)
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Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
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A Play for the End of the World (Jai Chakrabarti)
A Play for the End of the World (Jai Chakrabarti)
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Hunger (Lan Samantha Chang)
Hunger (Lan Samantha Chang)
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Inheritance (Lan Samantha Chang)
Inheritance (Lan Samantha Chang)
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Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
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Await Your Reply (Dan Chaon)
Await Your Reply (Dan Chaon)
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Man and Wife (Katie Chase)
Man and Wife (Katie Chase)
178
Oh What a Paradise It Seems (John Cheever)
Oh What a Paradise It Seems (John Cheever)
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The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
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We Can Still Be Friends (Kelly Cherry)
We Can Still Be Friends (Kelly Cherry)
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Friendly Fire (Kathryn Chetkovich)
Friendly Fire (Kathryn Chetkovich)
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Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
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There a Petal Silently Falls (Ch'oe Yun)
There a Petal Silently Falls (Ch'oe Yun)
184
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (Carolyn Chute)
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (Carolyn Chute)
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (Eleanor Clark)
The Oysters of Locmariaquer (Eleanor Clark)
186
Wrestling With Angels (John J. Clayton)
Wrestling With Angels (John J. Clayton)
187
Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)
Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)
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Abeng (Michelle Cliff)
Abeng (Michelle Cliff)
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The Girls (Emma Cline)
The Girls (Emma Cline)
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Harvey (Emma Cline)
Harvey (Emma Cline)
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Daddy (Emma Cline)
Daddy (Emma Cline)
192
The First Honeymoon (Lyn Coffin)
The First Honeymoon (Lyn Coffin)
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Traffic, With Ghosts (Rosanne Coggeshall)
Traffic, With Ghosts (Rosanne Coggeshall)
194
The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
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Body and Soul (Frank Conroy)
Body and Soul (Frank Conroy)
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The New Wilderness (Diane Cook)
The New Wilderness (Diane Cook)
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Daughters of the Revolution (Carolyn Cooke)
Daughters of the Revolution (Carolyn Cooke)
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Amor and Psycho (Carolyn Cooke)
Amor and Psycho (Carolyn Cooke)
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The Last to Go (Rand Richards Cooper)
The Last to Go (Rand Richards Cooper)
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A Child Again (Robert Coover)
A Child Again (Robert Coover)
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