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The Best American Short Stories 2025
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, and series editor Nicole Lamy. The Best American Short Stories 2025 is part of the renowned Best American series, which...
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, and series editor Nicole Lamy.
The Best American Short Stories 2025 is part of the renowned Best American series, which was launched in 1915. It is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, making it the most respected—and most popular—collection of its kind.
Celeste Ng, a Pushcart Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, has selected twenty stories out of thousands. These represent the best examples of the form published this year.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780063399808
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 December 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: HarperCollins
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 329g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages. Nicole A. Lamy was the books editor of the Boston Globe, where she expanded books coverage, including a reader advice column called Match Book, which she subsequently wrote for the New York Times Book Review. In addition to book reviews and features she has written about food, photography, and parenting among other topics for the Globe, the Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, and the American Scholar.
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