Three Short Story Collections Worth The Time To Read

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Novels are plenty more popular than short stories these days, as it is no longer possible for people to make a living writing short stories, and this has caused a shortage in the number of great short stories that are readily available; if you enjoy reading, however, one of the greatest things you can dive into is a short story collection, as this will give you the opportunity to explore a number of different stories in a short amount of time, and will make it much easier to fit a bit of reading into your busy schedule.

JD Salinger is known as one of the masters of literature, largely because of the sole novel he wrote, "The Catcher in the Rye," but before Salinger quit publishing his works altogether, he was also an accomplished short story writer, and his greatest collection of short stories can be found in the book "Nine Stories"; these stories have a classic Salinger style (and in fact, some of them contain Salinger characters you may recognize from other stories), while also giving you something altogether new and different from a writer you may already be a fan of.

Over the last sixty years, one of the masters of the short story was Richard Ford, and while he wrote a number of novels in addition to his short stories, it was his collections of short stories that gave him his reputation as one of America's greatest authors; you cannot go wrong with any short story collection of Richard Ford, but if you are looking for an author who captures minimalism at its finest, Ford's collection "Rock Springs" is the perfect book for you to pick up.

And one of the most well-known short story authors of all-time was Flannery O'Connor, who was one of the most beloved Southern authors, and whose collection "Everything that Rises Must Converge" is a perfect example of what a flawless collection of short stories looks like.

If you have been trying to find some new reading material, take a look at some of these books; who knows, you just may find a new favorite author that you can return to again and again!