The Best American Short Stories 1984

by John Updike (Editor), Shannon Ravenel (Series editor)

Other authors: Lee K. Abbott (Contributor), Madison Smartt Bell (Contributor), Dianne Benedict (Contributor), Paul Bowles (Contributor), Mary Ward Brown (Contributor) — 15 more, Rick DeMarinis (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor), Mavis Gallant (Contributor), Mary Hood (Contributor), Donald Justice (Contributor), Stephen Kirk (Contributor), Susan Minot (Contributor), Wright Morris (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Cynthia Ozick (Contributor), Lowry Pei (Contributor), Jonathan Penner (Contributor), Norman Rush (Contributor), James Salter (Contributor), Jeanne Schinto (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Short Stories (1984), Best American (1984)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
106	None	266,761	(4)	None

Popularity is position on a rank-ordered list of the number of copies of a works cataloged during a given period. If multiple works have the same number of copies during that period they share a popularity number.

Overall popularity: 266,761

Popularity year-by-year (top 100,000)

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Popularity	42,108	64,380

Cumulative popularity by month (top 100,000)

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Jan		59,858	68,707
Feb		55,268	75,413
Mar		53,937	73,325
Apr		53,398	80,152
May		60,954	86,385
Jun		62,607	92,060
Jul		61,198	94,509
Aug		55,471
Sept		54,794
Oct		61,160
Nov	51,659	60,587
Dec	49,940	64,182