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Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered one of the finest living English-language short story writers, her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro's fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international.
Awards: Nobel (2013), Booker (2009), NBCC (1998), PEN (1997) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Collections
Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
The Beggar Maid (1978)
aka Who Do You Think You Are?
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
The Progress of Love (1986)
Friend of My Youth (1990)
Open Secrets (1994)
Selected Stories (1996)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
No Love Lost (2003)
Vintage Munro (2004)
Runaway (2004)
Carried Away (2006)
The View from Castle Rock (2006)
Alice Munro's Best (2008)
Too Much Happiness (2009)
My Best Stories (2009)
New Selected Stories (2011)
Dear Life (2012)
Lying Under the Apple Tree (2014)
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (2015)
Julieta (2016)
Selected Stories: 1995-2009 (2021)
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
The Beggar Maid (1978)
aka Who Do You Think You Are?
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
The Progress of Love (1986)
Friend of My Youth (1990)
Open Secrets (1994)
Selected Stories (1996)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
No Love Lost (2003)
Vintage Munro (2004)
Runaway (2004)
Carried Away (2006)
The View from Castle Rock (2006)
Alice Munro's Best (2008)
Too Much Happiness (2009)
My Best Stories (2009)
New Selected Stories (2011)
Dear Life (2012)
Lying Under the Apple Tree (2014)
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (2015)
Julieta (2016)
Selected Stories: 1995-2009 (2021)
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)
Novellas and Short Stories
Queenie (1999)
Away from Her (2007)
The Bear Came Over The Mountain (2011)
Comfort (2011)
Family Furnishings (2011)
Floating Bridge (2011)
Nettles (2011)
Post and Beam (2011)
What Is Remembered (2011)
The Office (2015)
Away from Her (2007)
The Bear Came Over The Mountain (2011)
Comfort (2011)
Family Furnishings (2011)
Floating Bridge (2011)
Nettles (2011)
Post and Beam (2011)
What Is Remembered (2011)
The Office (2015)
Books containing stories by Alice Munro
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
Every Father's Daughter (2015)
Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
edited by
Margaret McMullan
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Alice Munro recommends
Midnight Train to Prague (2020)
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Cadillac Cathedral (2014)
Jack Hodgins
"Jack Hodgins' stories do one of the best things fiction can do-they reveal the extra dimension of the real place, they light up crazy necessities of real life."
Saints and Sinners (2011)
Edna O'Brien
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