Interlinked Short-Story Collections

Yesterday, I wrote about short stories which I tend to read between novels.  That blog entry got me thinking about interlinked short stories that can be read as a novel.  Probably the first examples of this genre I ever read are The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. 

Publishers Weekly recently compiled a list of 10 such short-story collections:  http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/72933-the-10-best-interlinked-short-story-collections.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=e27b95cc62-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-e27b95cc62-305759197.

Here are a half dozen novel-in-stories books I would recommend:

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro

Olive Ketteridge and Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout