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source: bookwyrm
date: 2026-11-15 17:20:17.00 +00
title: "The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 by Andrew Sean Greer, Tim O'Brien, Viet Dinh, A. S. Byatt, Paul Theroux, Graham Joyce, Ha Jin, Nadine Gordimer, Caitlin Horrocks, Karen Brown, Laura Furman, Anthony Doerr, Junot Díaz, John Burnside, Paul Yoon, Marisa Silver, Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum, E V Slate, Mohan Sikka, Miller, L. E., Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Judy Troy"
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bookwyrm_updated: 2026-11-15T17:20:17.208946+00:00
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book_title: "The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009"
book_author: "Andrew Sean Greer, Tim O'Brien, Viet Dinh, A. S. Byatt, Paul Theroux, Graham Joyce, Ha Jin, Nadine Gordimer, Caitlin Horrocks, Karen Brown, Laura Furman, Anthony Doerr, Junot Díaz, John Burnside, Paul Yoon, Marisa Silver, Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum, E V Slate, Mohan Sikka, Miller, L. E., Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Judy Troy"
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reading_status: read
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![Cover of The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 by Andrew Sean Greer, Tim O'Brien, Viet Dinh, A. S. Byatt, Paul Theroux, Graham Joyce, Ha Jin, Nadine Gordimer, Caitlin Horrocks, Karen Brown, Laura Furman, Anthony Doerr, Junot Díaz, John Burnside, Paul Yoon, Marisa Silver, Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum, E V Slate, Mohan Sikka, Miller, L. E., Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Judy Troy, published 2009 by Anchor, a 439-page paperback](./cover-13059026.jpeg)

I try a Booker or two every year and enjoy a great novel but get bummed trying to make progress on ones that aren't for me. I have a few novels (not necessarily Bookers) about half way through on the pile as it is, so I went looking for what short story recognition looks like out there and found the [O. Henry Prize](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/C97/the-o-henry-prize-collection/). I don't know why I started with a 2009 volume, it was probably just the first collection in the search results for used books. Anyway, these were great. I'll probably grab a few other year's to have on hand, take on vacation, that sort of thing.