| The Best American Short Stories 2005 | |
| Editor: | Katrina Kenison and Michael Chabon |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0618427058 |
| Preceded By: | The Best American Short Stories 2004 |
| Followed By: | The Best American Short Stories 2006 |
The Best American Short Stories 2005, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Michael Chabon.[1]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
|---|---|---|
| "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face" | Post Road | |
| "Until Gwen" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| "A Taste of Dust" | Ninth Letter | |
| "Old Friends" | The New Yorker | |
| "Eight Pieces for the Left Hand" | Granta | |
| "Stone Animals" | Conjunctions | |
| "First Four Measures" | The Paris Review | |
| "The Scheme of Things" | The New Yorker | |
| "Silence" | The New Yorker | |
| "Death Defier" | Virginia Quarterly Review | |
| "The Girls" | Idaho Review | |
| "Anda's Game" | Salon.com | |
| "Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student" | Swink | |
| "Old Boys, Old Girls" | The New Yorker | |
| "The Secret Goldfish" | The New Yorker | |
| "The Cousins" | Harper's Magazine | |
| "Natasha" | Harper's Magazine | |
| "Hart and Boot" | Polyphony | |
| "Justice Shiva Ram Murthy" | Harvard Review | |
| "Bohemians" | The New Yorker | |
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2005" were Ann Beattie, E. L. Doctorow, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rick Moody, Gina Ochsner and John Updike.