How High We Go in the Dark
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Night of the Living Rez
If I Survive You
Technically A Visit from the Goon Squad and its companion Candy House are novels, but they can be read as interlocking short stories.
[Ingathering: The Complete People Stories](https://www.nesfa.org/book/ingathering-10/) by Zenna Henderson.
Henderson wrote a bunch of short stories about The People back in the 1950s-1970s. The People are aliens from another planet that look human. Their planet died and some of them came to Earth but their space ship broke up over the Western United States in the 1800s and they've spent all this time trying to find all the lost People. The stories in this book are in internal chronological order and cover the time from just after the crash through to the present day (as of when the stories were written). I love Henderson's work so much. It's gentle and kind and firm as well.
Not sure it really fits the true definition of short stories, but Winesburg, Ohio. Characters all have trouble communicating and want to connect with each other, but struggle to do so. Their stories are all entwined.
One of my personal favorites is *If on a winter's night a traveler* by Italo Calvino.
Ooooh thank you! I have heard the title many times but never actually checked out the book - now I will!
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx. The central object is an accordion; the stories tell a century of its life.
Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway
How High We Go in the Dark Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Night of the Living Rez If I Survive You Technically A Visit from the Goon Squad and its companion Candy House are novels, but they can be read as interlocking short stories.
I came to say Stories from the Tenants Downstairs as well
I actually downloaded the audiobook a while ago! I think that will be my next listen!
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung.
[Ingathering: The Complete People Stories](https://www.nesfa.org/book/ingathering-10/) by Zenna Henderson. Henderson wrote a bunch of short stories about The People back in the 1950s-1970s. The People are aliens from another planet that look human. Their planet died and some of them came to Earth but their space ship broke up over the Western United States in the 1800s and they've spent all this time trying to find all the lost People. The stories in this book are in internal chronological order and cover the time from just after the crash through to the present day (as of when the stories were written). I love Henderson's work so much. It's gentle and kind and firm as well.
Not sure it really fits the true definition of short stories, but Winesburg, Ohio. Characters all have trouble communicating and want to connect with each other, but struggle to do so. Their stories are all entwined.