Books Like Great American Short Stories
by Edith Wharton, Mary Stegner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wallace Stegner, Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, William March, John O'Hara, Hortense Calisher, Ambrose Bierce, Hamlin Garland, Paul Horgan, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, Mary (editor) Stegner, Washington Irving, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, James Thurber, Henry James, William Faulkner, O. Henry
24 books similar to Great American Short Stories based on shared genres.

The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, Marc Simonetti
literary-fiction, fantasy

The warded man
Peter V. Brett
literary-fiction, fantasy

The desert spear
Peter V. Brett
literary-fiction, fantasy

X-Men Mutant Empire
Christopher Golden
literary-fiction

Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson
fantasy, literary-fiction

The Chase
Lisa Jane Smith
horror, literary-fiction

The house in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
literary-fiction, childrens

The Kommandant's mistress
Sherri Szeman
literary-fiction

Jason Bodger and the priory ghost
Gene Kemp
literary-fiction, childrens

What was she thinking?
Zoe Heller
literary-fiction

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, R. Black
literary-fiction

The lies of Locke Lamora
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literary-fiction

In an Absent Dream
Seanan McGuire
literary-fiction, fantasy

Unwind (Unwind #1)
Neal Shusterman
literary-fiction, childrens

Summer Knight
Jim Butcher
literary-fiction

It
Stephen King
horror

Lord Valentine's castle
Robert Silverberg
literary-fiction

14
Peter Clines
literary-fiction

Watchmen
John Higgins, Alan Moore
literary-fiction, fantasy

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
literary-fiction

The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon, Jorge Rizzo
literary-fiction, fantasy

Child
Fiona Barton
literary-fiction

Red Rising
Pierce Brown
literary-fiction, fantasy

American Gods
Neil Gaiman
fantasy, literary-fiction
