Alissa Nutting Reading Order

7 books (2010–2025)

Alissa Nutting has edited six anthologies of literary fiction from 2010 to 2025, with the series remaining active and ongoing. These collections should be read in publication order, beginning with My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and continuing through the most recent entry, Eat Joy, Be Gay, Do Crime. The series showcases diverse voices and experimental approaches to the literary form across its installments.

Start with My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, the first of 6 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Monsters of Literary Sightings 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Come Here Often?: 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Eat Joy 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Be Gay, Do Crime 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Look At Our Holes: An Anthology of Voids & Orifices 2025

19 books (1852–2022)

The Art of the Story is a 19-book anthology series spanning from 1852 to 2022, collecting short fiction and stories from literary masters across different eras and traditions. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Notebook and progressing through works by authors including Chekhov, Mansfield, Joyce Carol Oates, and contemporary writers. This likely complete collection showcases diverse approaches to the short story form and represents the editorial vision of Alissa Nutting in curating influential narrative works.

Start with A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev), the first of 19 books in the Art of the Story series.

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1	A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev) 1852Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The General Zapped an Angel(By: Howard Fast) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(By: Tobias Wolff) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Essential Tales of Chekhov(By: Anton Chekhov) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Garden Party and Other Stories(By: Katherine Mansfield) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Continent(By: Jim Crace) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Wild Nights!(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth(By: Kevin Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Monstress(By: Lysley Tenorio) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Mr. and Mrs. Baby(By: Mark Strand) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition(By: Anton Chekhov) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Vanishing Princess(By: Jenny Diski) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Catastrophe and Other Stories(By: Dino Buzzati) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	We Are Taking Only What We Need(By: Stephanie Powell Watts) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry(By: Elizabeth McCracken) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Hue and Cry(By: Edward P. Jones,James McPherson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Hurly Burly and Other Stories(By: Russell Banks,A.E. Coppard) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary(By: Francine Prose,Johanna Kaplan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2013–2017)

Alissa Nutting has completed a two-book collection of standalone literary fiction novels published between 2013 and 2017. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with Tampa followed by Made for Love. Each novel stands independently, allowing readers to experience Nutting's distinctive voice across separate narratives and settings.

Start with Tampa and read in order.

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1	Tampa 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Made for Love 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible