Lauren Groff Books in Order

Guest editor Stephen King and series editor Heidi Pitlor select twenty short stories first published in U.S. and Canadian magazines. The annual anthology includes Richard Russo’s “Horseman” alongside work by Alice Munro, Lauren Groff, Karen Russell, and others.

Returning home after a disastrous affair, Wilhelmina discovers that her mother has concealed her father's identity. A mysterious creature surfaces in the local lake while family research draws her into the strange histories of Templeton's inhabitants.

Nine stories trace moments of transformation in twentieth-century women’s lives, from artistic awakenings to wartime peril. Desire, crime, and disappointed love reshape their relationships, exposing both the limits imposed on them and their uncertain pursuit of personal freedom.

Bit grows up in a commune founded by idealists in rural New York, becoming deeply attached to its people and agrarian rhythms. As their shared experiment changes, he must find his place beyond the community that shaped him.

Diagnosed with anorexia, Emily Gerard enters a rehabilitation center and begins a difficult process of recovery. New friendships and emerging secrets complicate her experience as she confronts the challenges of treatment and changes in her life.

Lotto and Mathilde's apparently enviable marriage unfolds across more than two decades and two perspectives. Their contrasting experiences reveal how secrets, creative ambitions, and unequal knowledge can shape a partnership outsiders believe they already understand.

During a Florida beach cleanup, Ange makes a disturbing discovery that intensifies her fears for her daughter's future. Environmental anxiety and sleeplessness begin to distort her sense of reality in this short story from the Warmer collection.

Sent away from Eleanor of Aquitaine's court, young Marie de France becomes prioress of a struggling English abbey. Devotion to its women and confidence in her visions inspire ambitious efforts to transform their threatened community.

A servant girl escapes a colonial settlement and enters an unfamiliar American wilderness with few possessions. Her struggle to survive challenges the beliefs her civilization taught her, forcing her to imagine a different relationship with the world around her.

Nine stories follow people struggling between compassion and destructive impulses across decades and regions of America. Caregiving, family loss, adolescence, and inherited privilege expose how love and good intentions can collide with fear, violence, and the demands of survival.

This story collection follows families, abandoned children, travelers, and isolated adults amid landscapes shaped by Florida's climate and history. Natural hazards intersect with emotional danger in stories concerned with loneliness, motherhood, uncertainty, and the passage of time.