Lists of Bests: Gotham Writers Workshop Recommended fiction http://www.listsofbests.com/list/32388 Reading list from the Gotham Writers Workshop to help improve a budding writer's understanding of the craft of fiction. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:55:42 GMT en-us 0 50 310 50 0 Girls at War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10208 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10208"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> The Toughest Indian in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24134 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24134"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802138004.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherman Alexie</div> Winesburg, Ohio http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58149 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58149"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> Wilderness Tips http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Gorilla, My Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18841 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18841"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679738983.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Cade Bambara</div> Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Barthelme</div> Through the Safety Net: stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19105 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baxter</div> A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9114 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9114"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375705570.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Bloom</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> T.C. Boyle Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3003 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3003"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014028091X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> Flying Leap: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780162 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judy Budnitz</div> A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24133 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24133"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802137989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Olen Butler</div> The Palace Thief: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2055861 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2055861"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ethan Canin</div> Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> The Stories of John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> The Essential Tales of Chekov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780166 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekov</div> The House on Mango Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18785 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18785"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128427146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra Cisneros</div> A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780167 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coover</div> The Point: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2513210 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2513210"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316171255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134640744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles D'Ambrosio</div> Krik? Krak! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175420 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175420"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067976657X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192812_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> Almost No Memory: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6384 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6384"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312420552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lydia Davis</div> Drown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31228 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31228"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573226068.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521590_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Diaz</div> Selected Stories of Andre Dubus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081803 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Dubus</div> The Coast of Chicago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6444 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6444"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Dybek</div> Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664403 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664403"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425937.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Eisenberg</div> The SHORT STORIES OF F SCOTT FITZGERALD http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962114 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962114"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684842505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Rock Springs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63437 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63437"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394757009.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54193162_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> Bad Behaviour http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122119 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122119"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340494832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gaitskill</div> In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53053 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53053"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879233745.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Gass</div> Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66388 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66388"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316313076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134655145_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Gilchrist</div> Airships http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288723 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288723"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802133886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Hannah</div> You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385720726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439405_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Haslett</div> In Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19300 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19300"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684822768.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19428 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19428"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684843323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Reasons to Live: Stories by http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1535 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060976721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Hempel</div> Safety of Objects http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/895 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/895"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060564512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. M. Homes</div> Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/384221 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/384221"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393326357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pam Houston</div> On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288937 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288937"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385335946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1075229510_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Iagnemma</div> The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Babel</div> Going to Meet the Man: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19015 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679761799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Jesus' Son: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780170 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Johnson</div> The Pugilist at Rest: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6992 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6992"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316473049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134673145_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thom Jones</div> Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/160620 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/160620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978516.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Interpreter of Maladies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11404 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11404"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039592720X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077667518_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> The Prussian Officer and Other Stories: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/521221 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/521221"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187804.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Strange Pilgrims http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163055 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Necklace and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/183919 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/183919"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486270645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy de Maupassant</div> Birds of America : Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1743645 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1743645"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679445978.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> Self-Help: Stories by Lorrie Moore (Funny, Cohesive, and Moving Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780172 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ENFxFq-yL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> The Middleman and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24111 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24111"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136508.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bharati Mukherjee</div>