MFA Reading List Short Story Collections

Alice Adams, The Last Lovely City
Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World
Woody Allen, Side Effects
Max Apple, The Oranging of America
Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love
John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Richard Bausch, The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch
Charles Baxter, Through the Safety Net
Ann Beattie, Secrets and Surprises
Madison Smartt Bell, Barking Man
Jon Billman, When We Were Wolves
Amy Bloom, Come to Me
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
Raymond Carver, Cathedral or Where I'm Calling From
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants
Cecil Dawkins, The Quiet Enemy
Andre Dubus, Finding a Girl in America
Stanley Elkin, Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Tom Franklin, The Poachers
Richard Ford, Rock Springs
William H. Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan or In The Land of Dreamy Dreams
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
Reginald McKnight, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Antonya Nelson, The Expendables
Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories
Dale Ray Phillips, My People’s Waltz
Mark Richard, The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus
J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
William Trevor, The Hill Bachelors
John Updike, Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories
William Van Wert, The Advancement of Ignorance
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome To The Monkey House
David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair
Tobias Wolff, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs
Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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last updated: August 11, 2005.


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