Short Story Collections:

• "The Secret Lives of People in Love" by Simon Van Booy
• "The Architect of Flowers" by William Lychack
• "110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11" by Ulrich Baer
• "If I Loved You I Would Tell You This" by Robin Black
• "Volt" by Alan Heathcock

Well-Written:

• "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore" by Benjamin Hale
• "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill
• "Devil In The White City" by Erik Larson
• "A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
• "Super Sad Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart
• "The Curfew" by Jesse Ball

Strange & Magnificent -

• "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me" edited by Kate *Bernheimer
• "Light Boxes" by Shane Jones
• "Person" by Sam Pink
• "The Orange Eats Creeps" by Grace Krilanovich
• "Eeeee Eee Eeee" by Tao Lin

Not Acclaimed nor Artsy, but just Cute:

• "Warm Bodies" by Isaac Marion

Others:

• "The Art of Tim Burton" by, well.....Tim Burton!
• "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" by Art Spiegelman
• "Selenography" by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• "Along the Watchtower" by Constance Squires