- Riding the nightmare, Lisa Tuttle ; introduction by Neil Gaiman
- Tomorrow in Shanghai, and other stories, May-lee Chai
- The best short stories of O. Henry, selected and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
- Someone birthed them broken, stories, Ama Asantewa Diaka
- Into the forest, tales of the Baba Yaga, edited by Lindy Ryan
- Crime plus music, twenty stories of music-themed noir, edited by Jim Fusilli
- 控訴, 고발, 潘迪 (Bandi) 著 ; 劉雪英譯
- Fit for the gods, Greek mythology reimagined, edited by Jenn Northington & S. Zainab Williams
- The ice cream man & other stories, Sam Pink
- Trouble in mind, the collected stories, Jeffery Deaver, Volume 3
- New teeth, stories, Simon Rich
- Moĭ papa kurit tolʹko "Belomor", Zhanar Kusainova
- Broken fevers, Tenea D. Johnson
- The pre-war house, and other stories, Alison Moore
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories, Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors
- We don't live here anymore, collected short stories & novellas, Andre Dubus ; introduction by Ann Beattie, volume 1,
- Flights, Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft
- Monsters, movies & mayhem, Kevin J. Anderson, executive editor
- Her body among animals, stories, Paola Ferrante
- Infinite dimensions, stories, by Jessica Treadway
- Alien archives, eighteen stories of extraterrestrial encounters, by Robert Silverberg
- A lucky man, stories, Jamel Brinkley
- Echoes, Laura Dockrill
- The O. Henry Prize stories 2019, chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapnyar on the stories they admire most
- Liberation day, stories, George Saunders
- Never have I ever, stories, Isabel Yap
- Explorer, the mystery boxes, edited by Kazu Kibuishi
- Dragons at Crumbling Castle, and other tales, Terry Pratchett ; illustrations by Mark Beech
- Ni shi zui hao de zi ji, Best, wei bo zui li zhi tu wen da dang, Yang Yang & Zhang Haochen lian he da zao
- Your utopia, Bora Chung ; translated by Anton Hur
- The yellow wall-paper, Herland, and selected writings, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; introduction by Kate Bolick
- Recitatif, a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
- The nicotine chronicles, edited by Lee Child
- Agudunba, Alai zhu
- Sleepovers, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
- New Haven noir, edited by Amy Bloom
- Little witch Hazel, a year in the forest, Phoebe Wahl
- The Trojan War Museum and other stories, Ayşe Papatya Bucak
- Lucky breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets ; translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky
- After the funeral and other stories, Tessa Hadley
- The scarlet circus, Jane Yolen ; introduction by Brandon Sanderson
- My favorites, a collection of short stories, Ben Bova
- Before I wake, a story collection, David Morrell
- People from my neighborhood, stories, Hiromi Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen
- The Valancourt book of world horror stories, edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, Volume one
- Florida, Lauren Groff
- The refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The best American short stories 2021, Jesmyn Ward, editor
- Complete stories, Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser
- Two nurses, smoking, stories, David Means