Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers | 2012 | Tea Obreht | Buy |
| 2 | American Odysseys | 2013 | Tea Obreht | Buy |
| 3 | Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today’s New York | 2014 | Tea Obreht | Buy |
In addition to her novels, Tea Obreht has contributed to several multi-author anthologies published between 2012 and 2014. These collections feature essays and short pieces rather than fiction, and they appeared during the period after The Tiger’s Wife brought Obreht widespread attention.
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers (2012) is a Lonely Planet collection in which novelists write about their real travel experiences. American Odysseys (2013), published by Dalkey Archive Press, gathers writing about the American experience from various perspectives. Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York (2014) is an essay collection about contemporary life in New York City, featuring contributions from a range of writers.
These anthologies are not novels and don’t represent Obreht’s fiction writing. They are shorter pieces that give readers a sense of her nonfiction voice and her perspective on place and identity, themes that also run through her three novels.