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The Best American Short Stories 2025
By (Author) Celeste Ng
By (author) Nicole A. Lamy
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
1st November 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Fiction: general and literary
Hardback
320
A collection of the years best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, and series editor Nicole Lamy.
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respectedand most popularof its kind.
Celeste NgPuschcart Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhereselects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.
Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages. Nicole A. Lamy was the books editor of the Boston Globe, where she expanded books coverage, including a reader advice column called Match Book, which she subsequently wrote for the New York Times Book Review. In addition to book reviews and features she has written about food, photography, and parenting among other topics for the Globe, the Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, and the American Scholar.