Short Story Collections Published By Black Americans in Decade: 2000s
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
- Glow in the Dark: Stories by Lisa Teasley
- Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt
- Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns by J. California Cooper
- The Portable Promised Land by Touré
- Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) by Henry Dumas
- All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
- Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
- Free: And Other Stories by Anika Nailah
- Tales of the Out and the Gone by Amiri Baraka
- Get Down by Asali Solomon
- Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson
- God’s Gym: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
- Dr. King’s Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories by Charles R. Johnson
- I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
- Damned if I Do by Percival Everett
- This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History by Julius Lester
- Soulcatcher and Other Stories by Charles R. Johnson
- Holding Pattern: Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
- Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston
- A Place between Stations by Stephanie Allen
- Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson
- Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest
- Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson