The Best American Short Stories 2026
By Viet Thanh Nguyen and Nicole A. Lamy
Read by Mark Bramhall, Dan Bittner, Allyson Ryan, Ron Butler, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jane Oppenheimer, Lindsey Dorcus, Victoria Villarreal, Shawn K. Jain, Elyse Dinh, and Nicole A. Lamy
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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Available on 10/20/2026
ISBN: 9798228978720
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Available on 10/20/2026
ISBN: 9798228978737
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Available on 10/20/2026
ISBN: 9798228978713
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Featuring multiple narrators, each story is brought vivdly to life.
Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the present; a young lesbian attempts to launch her sexuality with comically mixed results. In these stories and many more in this year’s volume, it’s easy to get lost in the yearning of characters who feel so heartbreakingly true and whose lives resonate with the weight of inevitability.
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2026 INCLUDES: AIMEE BENDER • NATHAN ENGLANDER • LOUISE ERDRICH • CALVIN GIMPELEVICH • SIGRID NUNEZ • GEORGE SAUNDERS • AKHIL SHARMA • VU TRAN • PAUL YOON • AND OTHERS
Author
Author Bio: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. He teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
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Author Bio: Nicole A. Lamy
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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