- American voices, best short fiction, by contemporary authors ; with comments by the authors ; selected by Sally Arteseros
- The Arbor House treasury of great Western stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin Greenberg ; [introduction by John Jakes]
- The best of the best, 18 new stories by America's leading authors, edited by Elaine Koster and Joseph Pittman
- Our mutual room, modern literary portraits of the opposite sex, edited by Emily Ellison and Jane B. Hill
- Story of my life, a novel by Jay McInerney
- Reckonings, contemporary short fiction by Native American women /, edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, Jana Sequoya Magdaleno
- Look homeward, angel, a story of the buried life, by Thomas Wolfe ; with an introduction by Maxwell E. Perkins
- Restless spirits, ghost stories by American women, 1872-1926, edited with an introduction by Catherine Lundie
- New growth, contemporary short stories by Texas writers, edited by Lyman Grant
- Soldiers & civilians, Americans at war and at home : short stories, edited by Tom Jenks
- Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy
- Fiction of the eighties, a decade of stories from TriQuarterly, edited by Reginald Gibbons and Susan Hahn
- Chains of the sea, three original novellas of science fiction, by Geo. Alec Effinger, Gardner R. Dozois, Gordon Eklund ; edited and with and introd. by Robert Silverberg
- "Eric Clapton's lover" and other stories from the Virginia quarterly review, edited by Sheila McMillen and George Garrett ; with an introduction by George Garrett
- Wonderful town, New York stories from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick with Susan Choi
- Southwest tales, a contemporary collection, edited by Alurista and Xelina Rojas-Urista
- Out of Dallas, 14 stories, edited by Jane Roberts Wood ; with Donna Dysart Gormly and Sally Schrup
- Harlem Renaissance, five novels of the 1920s, Rafia Zafar, editor
- The Granta book of the American short story, edited by Richard Ford
- The Lightning within, an anthology of contemporary American Indian fiction, edited and with an introduction by Alan R. Velie
- Writers harvest, edited by William H. Shore
- The landscape of nightmare: studies in the contemporary American novel
- The Arbor House treasury of detective and mystery stories from the great pulps, edited by Bill Pronzini
- American short story masterpieces, edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
- The Emmaus readers, listening for God in contemporary fiction, edited by Susan M. Felch and Gary D. Schmidt
- Jean Stafford, complete stories & other writings, Kathryn Davis, editor
- Nightshade, 20th century ghost stories, edited by Robert Phillips
- Pieces, a collection of new voices, edited by Stephen Chbosky
- Cuentos Chicanos, a short story anthology, edited by Rudolfo A. Anaya and Antonio Márquez
- We are the stories we tell, the best short stories by North American women since 1945, edited by Wendy Martin
- Weird vampire tales, 30 blood-chilling stories from the weird fiction pulps, edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg ; introduction by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz
- Fiction & poetry by Texas women, edited by Janice L. White
- Breaking ice, an anthology of contemporary African-American fiction, edited by Terry McMillan
- The five books of (Robert) Moses, a novel, Arthur Nersesian
- Classic fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by William L. Andrews
- Tilted planet tales, far-reaching fiction from Austin, Texas, edited by Robin Cravey ; illustrated by Laurel Cravey Haworth
- New stories from the South, the year's best, 2006, selected from U.S. magazines by Allan Gurganus with Kathy Pories
- Rebel yell, stories, by Contemporary Southern gay authors ; Jay Quinn, editor
- Memories and visions, women's fantasy & science fiction, edited by Susanna J. Sturgis
- Fielder's choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman
- His3, brilliant new fiction by gay writers, edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
- A tourist's New England, travel fiction, 1820-1920, Dona Brown, editor
- His 2, brilliant new fiction by gay writers, edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton
- From blues to bop, a collection of jazz fiction, edited by Richard N. Albert
- The Editors' choice, new American stories, compiled by George E. Murphy, Jr
- A winsome murder, James DeVita
- Here's the story, fiction with heart, edited by Morty Sklar
- Show me a hero, great contemporary stories about sports, edited by Jeanne Schinto
- A Starfarer's dozen, stories of things to come, edited by Michael Sterns ; illustrated by Michael Hussar
- Pure pulp, edited by Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, and Bill Pronzini