The Best American Short Stories 1999, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Amy Tan.[1][2]
| Author | Story | Source |
| Rick Bass | "The Hermit's Story" | The Paris Review |
| Junot Diaz | "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" | The New Yorker |
| Chitra Divakaruni | "Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Stephen Dobyns | "Kansas" | Clackamas Literary Review |
| Nathan Englander | "The Tumblers" | American Short Fiction |
| Tim Gautreaux | "The Piano Tuner" | Harper's Magazine |
| Melissa Hardy | "The Uncharted Heart" | Ontario Review |
| George Harrar | "The 5:22" | Story Magazine |
| A. Hemon | "Islands" | Ploughshares |
| Pam Houston | "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" | Other Voices |
| Ha Jin | "In the Kindergarten" | Five Points |
| Heidi Julavits | "Marry the One Who Gets There First" | Esquire |
| Hester Kaplan | "Live Life King-Sized" | Press |
| Sheila Kohler | "Africans" | Story |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | "Interpreter of Maladies" | AGNI |
| Lorrie Moore | "Real Estate" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Save the Reaper" | The New Yorker |
| Annie Proulx | "The Bunchgrass at the Edge of the World" | The New Yorker |
| James Spencer | "The Robbers of Karnataka" | The Gettysburg Review |
| Samrat Upadhyay | "The Good Shopkeeper" | Manoa |
| Steve Yarbrough | "The Rest of Her Life" | The Missouri Review |