- Rowley Jefferson's awesome friendly spooky stories, by Jeff Kinney
- First person singular, stories, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
- The Artemis Fowl files, Eoin Colfer
- A deadly affair, unexpected love stories from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie
- The angel of Rome, and other stories, Jess Walter
- The jealousy man and other stories, Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson
- Tell tale, stories, Jeffrey Archer
- Mouse tales
- Normal rules don't apply, stories, Kate Atkinson
- Roman stories, Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz
- Let me tell you, new stories, essays, and other writings, Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt ; foreword by Ruth Franklin
- The best mystery stories of the year 2021, edited with an introduction by Lee Child ; series editor, Otto Penzler
- If it bleeds, Stephen King
- Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Andrew Matthews ; illustrated by Alan Snow
- Flash!, writing the very short story, John Dufresne
- Harbor lights, stories, James Lee Burke
- Death wears a beauty mask, and other stories, Mary Higgins Clark
- Death wears a beauty mask, and other stories, Mary Higgins Clark
- Uncommon Type, some stories, Tom Hanks
- Down to a soundless sea, Thomas Steinbeck
- The Amish sweet shop, Emma Miller, Laura Bradford, Mary Ellis
- The bazaar of bad dreams, stories, Stephen King
- No middle name, the complete collected Jack Reacher short stories, Lee Child
- The breathing method, Stephen King
- Disney Christmas storybook collection
- And thereby hangs a tale, Jeffrey Archer
- Endless summer, stories, Elin Hilderbrand
- The ice cream machine, Adam Rubin ; illustrated by Daniel Salmieri, Charles Santoso, Liniers, Emily Hughes, Nicole Miles, Seaerra Miller
- Marple, twelve new mysteries
- Catch and release, stories by Lawrence Block
- Winning words, sports stories and photographs, Charles R. Smith, Jr
- Fear, 13 stories of suspense and horror, [selected by and with an] introduction by R.L. Stine
- Get in trouble, stories, Kelly Link
- Dirty love, Andre Dubus III
- Dear life, stories, Alice Munro
- Warrior women, edited by Paula Guran
- Scream and scream again!, spooky stories from Mystery Writers of America, edited by R.L. Stine
- Death at sea, Montalbano's early cases, by Andrea Camilleri
- I dare you, stories to scare you, by Kathleen Keeler ; illustrated by Bob Doucet
- Mostly ghostly, adapted by Steven Zorn from stories by Ambrose Bierce ... [and others] ; illustrated by John Bradley
- Nine inches, stories, Tom Perrotta
- Trajectory, by Richard Russo
- 3 days to live, James Patterson
- Seasonal work, stories, Laura Lippman
- Of mice and minestrone, Hap and Leonard: the early years, Joe R. Lansdale
- The end and other beginnings, stories from the future, Veronia Roth ; illustrations by Ashley Mackenzie
- Things that sometimes happen, by Avi ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman
- Chance developments, Alexander McCall Smith
- Pianos and flowers, brief encounters of the romantic kind, Alexander McCall Smith
- Bibliomysteries, stories of crime in the world of books and bookstores, edited by Otto Penzler, Volume two