The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor

Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cherise Boothe, Cindy Kay

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.

Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

A few good short stories

I enjoy reading different short stories in an anthology. I will always like a few and dislike a few. I disliked more than I liked in this volume.

I had to stop listening

The ones I listened too where all just sad a depressing for the most part. I kept think there would be some up and down but they were seemingly all downers. I just don’t have time for that in my life. Especially when you want light enjoyment while heading to work.

I would suggest a new performer, at least.

I would suggest a different performer. Can't get to the stories. I must be out of the demographic. unlistenable.

Best Collection of Stories

I loved this! The stories are of a high quality, diverse, and imaginative. The narrators are talented. The collection is so good that I am going to listen to it again and look up the authors to see if they wrote their own collection. I’m hooked on this series. I look forward to The Best American Short Stories of 2023!

So depressing

Mr.Greer clearly has an agenda. I actually agree with many of these issues. But this is a collection of sad, doomsday, angry, and over the top depressing stories. Going into this I was going to pick a magazine and subscribe. Not now. I could barely get through them. One worse than the other.