need advice on good ones to read / authors to check out

i read barely any fiction books anymore and wanna be able to burn through short stories in between non-fiction works, looking for any recs

newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/05/good-people

eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ThreStra.shtml

Anything by Junji Ito

gotchu bro, I read a lot of short story collections over the past two years. my favorites are:

Pastoralia, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, and Tenth of December by George Saunders

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

After The Quake by Haruki Murakami

those are all contemporary ones I liked a lot but if you're looking for more 20th century stuff you can't go wrong with Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Conner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, José Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, Shirley Jackson, Alice Munro, etc. not to mention the tons of great science fiction short story writers

also would recommend A Swim In The Pond In The Rain by George Saunders. it's a collection of classic Russian short stories with breakdowns about the structure and decisions the authors made. would be a good book to start with before a deep short story dive

cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/37323257_2032020740156086_2939693277735026688_n.pdf/Chekhov-The-Lady-with-the-Dog.pdf?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=eoJP1nMz3SQAX-DlJms&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=133c7c5dd2cb9c52afceee9b608f5845&oe=617420CA&dl=1
@op

Kafka

Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party

James Joyce's Dubliners

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber

Fairy tales retold through feminist and psychoanalytic lens

Dubliners by James Joyce

BRUH you beat me to it

started reading pastoralia from someone on here's rec i wonder if it was u lol it was dope i had to give it back to the library tho

whew this and look at the birdie are great @op

i gotta ask cotton dockers, have u read any tom robbins seeing as u like kurt vonnegut?

I actually have not! Where should I start?

i'd start with jitterbug perfume imo it'll give you the best preview of his writing, i had put aside the ide of reading his books until getting recomended him twice by different people when i said i was a huge vonnegut fan

Thanks! About to start Money by Martin Amis but I’ll check this out next 👍🏽

Orange World by Karen Russel (author of Swamplandia!) is a great horror short story collection.

One of them involves a character merging mentally with a joshua tree.

IF ITS ANY SHORT STORY COLLECTION YALL GET FROM THIS THREAD, ITS GOTTA BE THIS ONE

Nikolai Gogol - The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (The Nose/The Overcoat)

literally any philip k d*** collection