Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | 2004 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 2 | The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories | 2004 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 3 | The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers | 2005 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 4 | Feeling Very Strange | 2006 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 5 | The Best American Travel Writing 2007 | 2007 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 6 | The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | 2007 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 7 | Not Normal, Illinois | 2009 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 8 | Dedicated to the People of Darfur | 2009 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 9 | The Secret History of Science Fiction | 2009 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 10 | The Legacy of David Foster Wallace | 2012 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 11 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 | 2012 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 12 | The Best American Short Stories 2012 | 2012 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 13 | Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts | 2012 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 14 | My Ideal Bookshelf | 2012 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 15 | Life Is Short – Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity | 2015 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 16 | What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump’s America | 2017 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 17 | Conceptualisms | 2022 | George Saunders | Buy |
| 18 | Growing Up Chicago | 2022 | George Saunders | Buy |
George Saunders’ eighteen anthology appearances between 2004 and 2022 reflect his standing in contemporary American literature. He has been included in best-of collections across genres — from The Best American Short Stories to The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy — a testament to how his work resists easy categorization.
His presence in anthologies like The Secret History of Science Fiction and Feeling Very Strange confirms his position at the intersection of literary and speculative fiction. Other appearances include tributes (The Legacy of David Foster Wallace), themed collections (Not Normal, Illinois; Growing Up Chicago), and books about the writing life (My Ideal Bookshelf).