- Galatea, a short story, Madeline Miller
- FaceOff, edited by David Baldacci
- Ford County, [stories], John Grisham
- Stories to keep you alive despite vampires, Ben Acker ; with artwork by Scott Buoncristiano
- The whole art of detection, lost mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, Lyndsay Faye
- The best American mystery stories 2020, edited and with an introduction by C.J. Box ; Otto Penzler, series editor
- I'm a therapist, and my patient is in love with a pedophile, 6 patient files from prison, Dr. Harper
- Kind of blue, stories, Christopher Chambers
- Liberation day, stories, George Saunders
- Last writes, a collection of short stories, Catherine Aird
- The collected stories of Lydia Davis
- Gumdrop Angel, by Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener
- The bazaar of bad dreams, stories, Stephen King
- Raised in captivity, fictional nonfiction, Chuck Klosterman
- The Penguin book of the modern American short story, edited by John Freeman
- The ice cream machine, Adam Rubin ; illustrated by Daniel Salmieri, Charles Santoso, Liniers, Emily Hughes, Nicole Miles, Seaerra Miller
- Never after, Laurell K. Hamilton ... [et al.]
- A simple murder, Linda Castillo
- Us, in progress, short stories about young Latinos, Lulu Delacre
- Dark bites, Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The return journey, Maeve Binchy
- The jealousy man, and other stories, Jo Nesbo
- The ancient minstrel, novellas, Jim Harrison
- Flash fiction funny, 82 very short humorous stories, edited by Tom Hazuka
- Normal rules don't apply, stories, Kate Atkinson
- Chilling ghost stories, James, Poe, Wilde, Bierce, Dickens, [M.R. James ... et al.]
- Suicide woods, stories, Benjamin Percy
- The private life of spies, and The exquisite art of getting even, Alexander McCall Smith
- The Bane chronicles, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson
- Points of departure, Liavek stories, Patricia C. Wrede & Pamela Dean
- In a dark, dark room and other scary stories, retold by Alvin Schwartz ; pictures by Victor Rivas
- Halloween party murder, Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross
- Fearlessly afraid, Daniel Joseph
- Why they killed Big Boy, and other stories, by Michael Perry
- Liberation day, stories, George Saunders
- The jealousy man and other stories, Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson
- Great classic love stories, [six unabridged stories]
- Wild Invitation, Nalini Singh
- The best American short stories 2019, selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Anthony Doerr with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Anthony Doerr
- Man made monsters, Andrea L. Rogers ; illustrated by Jeff Edwards
- The refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Halloween party murder, Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross
- The souvenir museum, stories, Elizabeth McCracken
- The lottery and other stories, Shirley Jackson
- And thereby hangs a tale, short stories, Jeffrey Archer
- Bad dreams and other stories, Tessa Hadley
- Gordo, stories, Jaime Cortez
- Black boy joy, 17 stories celebrating Black boyhood, edited by Kwame Mbalia ; stories by B.B. Alston [and 16 others]
- The best of the best horror of the year, 10 years of essential short horror fiction, edited by Ellen Datlow
- From sea to stormy sea, 17 stories inspired by great American paintings, edited by Lawrence Block