Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties | 1986 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 2 | The Best American Short Stories 1991 | 1991 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 3 | The Literary Traveller | 1994 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 4 | Granta 54 | 1996 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 5 | The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood | 1998 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 6 | Ploughshares Fall, 1998 | 1998 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 7 | The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | 1999 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 8 | Wonderful Town | 2000 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 9 | 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology | 2000 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 10 | A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology | 2002 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 11 | PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction | 2002 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 12 | The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles | 2004 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 13 | The Best American Short Stories 2004 | 2004 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 14 | Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules | 2005 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 15 | The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | 2007 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
| 16 | Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts | 2012 | Lorrie Moore | Buy |
Moore’s anthology appearances trace the arc of her reputation from promising debut author to one of the central figures in American short fiction. Her work appears in foundational collections like Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) and The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007), both of which signal institutional recognition.
Her guest editorship of The Best American Short Stories 2004 placed her on the other side of the selection process, in a role that allowed her to champion writers she admired. Together, the sixteen anthologies document a career that has shaped the conversation about American short fiction for four decades.