The Best Short Stories 2022

The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its second year with a new guest editor format, includes stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.

"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction."-The Atlantic Monthly

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luisellihas brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation fromBengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.

THE WINNING STORIES-

"Screen Time," byAlejandro Zambra,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

"The Wolves of Circassia," byDaniel Mason

"Mercedes's Special Talent," byTere Davila,
translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

"Rainbows," byJoseph O'Neill

"A Way with Bea," byShanteka Sigers

"Seams," byOlga Tokarczuk,
translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

"The Little Widow from the Capital," byYohanca Delgado

"Lemonade," byEshkol Nevo,
translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

"Breastmilk," by'Pemi Aguda

"The Old Man of Kusumpur,"byAmar Mitra,
translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta

"Where They Always Meet,"byChristos Ikonomou,
translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich

"Fish Stories,"byJanika Oza

"Horse Soup,"byVladimir Sorokin,
translated from the Russian by Max Lawton

"Clean Teen,"byFrancisco Gonzalez

"Dengue Boy,"byMichel Nieva,
translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

"Zikora," byChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Apples,"byGunnhild yehaug,
translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

"Warp and Weft,"byDavid Ryan

"Face Time,"byLorrie Moore

"An Unlucky Man,"bySamanta Schweblin,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell