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The Best Short Stories of [the Year], and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The Best Short Stories of [the Year], and the Yearbook of the American Short Story was an annually issued collection and bibliography of American short stories, edited by Edward J. O'Brien.

Publication History

The Best Short Stories of [the Year], and the Yearbook of the American Short Story began publication with a collection and bibliography of 1915 short stories. The year being reviewed was included in the title of each volume, which typically was published the following year. After O'Brien died in 1941, Houghton Mifflin, which had published the series since the 1930s, issued additional volumes under the title "Best American Short Stories". That series continues today.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1915-1928: HathiTrust has page images of the first 14 volumes. Many later volumes are available for search but not for display, due to copyright. The listing here may include some volumes of a similar but different series of O. Henry Prize stories.
• 1915, 1917-1921: Project Gutenberg has transcriptions of 6 of the first 8 volumes.

Official Site / Current Material

• The official Best American Short Series website has more information on the present-day successor to this series, and similar series.

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