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Gotham Writers Workshop Recommended fiction

Reading list from the Gotham Writers Workshop to help improve a budding writer’s understanding of the craft of fiction.

(found at: http://www.writingclasses.com/WritersResources/resources.php/ClassGenreCode/FC)

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1. Girls at War
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
  
3. Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
  
4. Wilderness Tips
by Margaret Atwood
  
5. Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
  
6. Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Donald Barthelme
  
7. Through the Safety Net: stories
by Charles Baxter
  
8. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories
by Amy Bloom
  
9. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
10. T.C. Boyle Stories
by T.C. Boyle
  
11.
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 Flying Leap: Stories
by Judy Budnitz
  
12. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
by Robert Olen Butler
  
13. The Palace Thief: Stories
by Ethan Canin
  
14. Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
  
15. The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
  
16.
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 The Essential Tales of Chekov
by Anton Chekov
  
17. The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
18.
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 A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This
by Robert Coover
  
19. The Point: And Other Stories
by Charles D'Ambrosio
  
20. Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
  
21. Almost No Memory: Stories
by Lydia Davis
  
22. Drown
by Junot Diaz
  
23.
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 Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
by Andre Dubus
  
24. The Coast of Chicago
by Stuart Dybek
  
25. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
by Deborah Eisenberg
  
26. The SHORT STORIES OF F SCOTT FITZGERALD
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
27. Rock Springs
by Richard Ford
  
28. Bad Behaviour
by Mary Gaitskill
  
29. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)
by William H. Gass
  
30. Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)
by Ellen Gilchrist
  
31. Airships
by Barry Hannah
  
32. You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories
by Adam Haslett
  
33. In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
  
34. The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition
by Ernest Hemingway
  
35. Reasons to Live: Stories by
by Amy Hempel
  
36. Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes
  
37. Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
by Pam Houston
  
38. On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
by Karl Iagnemma
  
39. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
  
40. Going to Meet the Man: Stories
by James Baldwin
  
41.
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 Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
  
42. The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
by Thom Jones
  
43. Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition)
by James Joyce
  
44. Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
45. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
46. Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
47. The Necklace and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Guy de Maupassant
  
48. Birds of America : Stories
by Lorrie Moore
  
49. Self-Help: Stories by Lorrie Moore (Funny, Cohesive, and Moving Collection)
by Lorrie Moore
  
50. The Middleman and Other Stories
by Bharati Mukherjee
  
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Created by Harleth on May 03, 2007.