Reading group guides/book club discussion guides for the "Short Stories & Essays" category.

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines.

Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of interconnected short stories.

Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.