These six short fiction collections are my favorites of 2025, the collections I most recommended to friends and Largehearted Boy readers (my personal definition of “favorite”).
The stories and novella in Emily Greenberg’s collection Alternative Facts manage to embrace absurdity and empathy at the same time in this timely book.
The stories in Julia Elliott‘s collection Hellions are marvelously diverse and divine magic from everyday lives.
The stories in Kerry Donoghue‘s collection Mouth are poignant, empathetic, and beautifully written.
The stories in Kristina Ten’s collection Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine are marvelously strange and turn the commonplace into the extraordinary.
The stories in Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s collection Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! are eerily surreal and always hilarious.
The stories in Sara Jaffe’s collection Hurricane Envy are smart and surprising, thought-provoking and funny.
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