Short Story Collections Published By Black Americans in Decade: 2000s

  1. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
  2. Glow in the Dark: Stories by Lisa Teasley
  3. Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt
  4. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns by J. California Cooper
  5. The Portable Promised Land by Touré
  6. Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) by Henry Dumas
  7. All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
  8. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  9. Free: And Other Stories by Anika Nailah
  10. Tales of the Out and the Gone by Amiri Baraka
  11. Get Down by Asali Solomon
  12. Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson
  13. God’s Gym: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  14. Dr. King’s Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories by Charles R. Johnson
  15. I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
  16. Damned if I Do by Percival Everett
  17. This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History by Julius Lester
  18. Soulcatcher and Other Stories by Charles R. Johnson
  19. Holding Pattern: Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
  20. Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston
  21. A Place between Stations by Stephanie Allen
  22. Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson
  23. Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest
  24. Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson