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Short Stories Books by BIPOC Authors

Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories. Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hong Kong, and Hachijo-jima, the six stories...

The Obake Code

The Obake Code

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician…only to find herself up against...

The Typing Lady

The Typing Lady

A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after...

Python’s Kiss

Python’s Kiss

It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of...

My Dear You

My Dear You

A brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else. The characters in My Dear...

Where Are You Really From

Where Are You Really From

From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard...

The Dilemmas of Working Women

The Dilemmas of Working Women

A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic...

Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories

Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories

Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride,...

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

A gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes...

How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

From the author of This Is One Way to Dance, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic...

Green Frog

Green Frog

From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical—a pair of...

Behind You Is the Sea

Behind You Is the Sea

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who...

Your Utopia

Your Utopia

A fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires. Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and...

You Glow in the Dark

You Glow in the Dark

Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power. The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark...

A Sunny Place for Shady People

A Sunny Place for Shady People

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women....

Ghostroots

Ghostroots

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos,...

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation’s...

This Is Salvaged

This Is Salvaged

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories

Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories

We came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We...

Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare

Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a...

High Spirits

High Spirits

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family – the...

Light Years from Home

Light Years from Home

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father...

Her First Palestinian

Her First Palestinian

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink. Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of...

Love In Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

Love In Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

A vibrant debut collection of love stories from the bestselling author of Honey and Spice, retelling myths, folktales, and histories from around the world. A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has...

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