- When we cease to understand the world, Benjamín Labatut ; translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West
- A twisted tale anthology, edited by Elizabeth Lim
- Into the forest, tales of the Baba Yaga, edited by Lindy Ryan
- Hardly knew her, stories, Laura Lippman
- Boys, beasts & men, Sam J. Miller ; [introduction by Amal El Mohtar]
- Prodigals, stories, Greg Jackson
- Haunted houses, Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Kelly Murphy & Antoine Revoy
- Life among the terranauts, Caitlin Horrocks
- Smashed, Junji Ito story collection, story & art by Junji Ito ; translation & adaptation, Jocelyne Allen ; touch-up art & lettering, Eric Erbes
- Debriefing, collected stories, Susan Sontag ; edited by Benjamin Taylor
- Matchup, edited by Lee Child
- Her body among animals, stories, Paola Ferrante
- Cung đàn dang dỏ, Lê Thao Chuyên
- The early stories of Truman Capote, foreword by Hilton Als
- Last day on earth, stories, Eric Puchner
- A day in the life of a smiling woman, complete short stories, Margaret Drabble ; edited by José Francisco Fernández
- Liberation day, stories, George Saunders
- Tagz, and other tales of sci-fi and horror, Richard Hollman
- Homesick for another world, Ottessa Moshfegh
- Recitatif, a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
- The illustrated man, Ray Bradbury
- The refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The lives of things, short stories, José Saramago ; translated by Giovanni Pontiero
- The best American short stories 2021, Jesmyn Ward, editor
- The unicorn treasury, compiled and edited by Bruce Coville ; illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt
- A treasury of pet stories, chosen by Suzanne Carnell ; illustrated by Michael Reid
- Always happy hour, stories, Mary Miller
- Miniatures., the very short fiction of John Scalzi, John Scalzi, MP3
- Florida, Lauren Groff
- Anamı da aldım geldim, öyküler, Muzaffer İzgü
- 28 Arabic short stories, Hasan Yahya = Qiṣaṣ qaṣīrah / Ḥasan Yaḥyá
- Who do you think you are?, stories of friends and enemies, selected by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell
- After the funeral and other stories, Tessa Hadley
- Stories from suffragette city, edited by M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis
- A Newbery Christmas, thirteen stories of Christmas by Newbery Award-winning authors, selected by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh ; introduction by Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh
- Bad dreams and other stories, Tessa Hadley
- Tales from Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Maria, Maria, and other stories, Marytza K. Rubio
- Black dahlia & white rose, Joyce Carol Oates
- Lost and found, three by Shaun Tan
- The language of thorns, midnight tales and dangerous magic, Leigh Bardugo ; illustrated by Sara Kipin
- Thriller 2, stories you just can't put down, edited by Clive Cussler
- Death wears a beauty mask and other stories, Mary Higgins Clark
- Sharp ends, stories from the world of the first law, Joe Abercrombie
- American spirits, Russell Banks
- My father's tears and other stories, by John Updike
- Tales of light and life, Zoraida Córdova, Tessa Gratton, Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Lydia Kang, George Mann, Daniel José Older, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule
- Never whistle at night, an Indigenous dark fiction anthology, edited by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr
- Great writers & kids write spooky stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan, and Robert Weinberg ; with illustrations by Gahan Wilson
- The mistletoe murder, and other stories, P.D. James