This is our list of 1000 Great Short Stories of All Time. No list, book, film, or otherwise exists like this one. This will be the first list of its kind ever, as far as I know. Making a first list, you hope to do it best, but with 1000 stories on the list, it will make doing it well very difficult, so, as with our list of poems, we need your help. Please make suggestions in the comments section. We want to get 1000. We are in the 80s, so this will take a lot of work. I’ve seen a lot of top 50 lists for short stories, but the top 1000 is, again, unheard of.
Why do a list like this? It’s pretty simple, really, guidelines. It helps people find great short stories they want to read. It also will help with a consensus. Right now, name the top 10 short stories of all time, and you’ll get 10 different answers from 10 writers. When you say, what about story X, those ten writers would likely say well, it’s one of the greatest, but not in my top 10. So I’m not trying to list the 1000 greatest short stories that put Poe at 1 now and forever. I’m creating a list that people can point to and say, I agree. It might not be number 10 on the list, but it is among the 1000 best of all time. To that end, we don’t have to worry about the exact order. We have to come up with 1000 great stories.
The stories should be measured simply now; what stories have you read that have either stood the test of time or WILL stand the test of time? Developing criteria should come later, too. We are currently looking for 1000 stories; when we hit 2000 suggestions, I’ll worry about the definitive list of criteria.
We now have 1000 Great Stories that are the stepping stones to 1000 Greatest Short Stories of all time. This list may be impossible to create, but we are looking for stories that speak to people and teach something with a message that has more extensive insight into who we all are. As readers, we know the stories that speak to us. We know stories that have changed us. We know stories that we want to share with everyone we know. These are the stories we are looking for. After all, these incredible stories are determined by us. In expanding this list of great short stories, I will discuss some reasons for doing this list. We now have 1000 Great Stories that are the stepping stones to 1000 Greatest Short Stories of all time. This list may be impossible to create, but we are looking for stories that speak to people and teach something with a message that has more extensive insight into who we all are. As readers, we know the stories that speak to us. We know stories that have changed us. We know stories that we want to share with everyone we know. These are the stories we are looking for. After all, these incredible stories are determined by us.
Could you help us out? I want to see if this can be done. Any suggestions are welcome. Here is the list of the first 80 or so; I’ll come up with 100 more soon and add any suggestions to the list that I agree with. Also, please have some fun with this. If you have any misspellings or mistakes, feel free to point them out.
After several years, I’m finally starting to complete the list. Here are over 1000 short stories. These include the 1000 most excellent of all time, but notice that I went over 1000. I can’t tell you how hard this list was to put together. Compiling 1000 of anything is very difficult, but putting this list together was painful and exhausting.
So why over 1000? I know there are mistakes. Instead of spending another 2 months editing, I’m just putting it out there. Tell me the errors in the comments, and we can begin to shape the list together. Also, if I missed any suggestions, or you want to put a story on the list and bump one, make an argument in the comments; I’m always happy to listen. I will also read whatever story you send my way. So here is the only some of-the-way complete list, but there are 1000. It still needs work. Will you help me?
We also publish some great short stories right here on our site. If you are looking for stories written by classic writers or writers living today, please visit EWR: Short Stories.
1000 Greatest Stories of All Time
- A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
- “”Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
- “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “A Circle in the Fire” by Flannery O’Connor
- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Dark-Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane
- “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
- “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
- “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” by Flannery O’Connor
- “A Little Cloud” by James Joyce
- “A Mystery of Heroism“ by Stephen Crane
- “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
- “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger
- “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
- “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
- “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
- “A Weary Man’s Utopia” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
- “Abraham” by Kay Boyle
- “After the Race” by James Joyce
- “An Encounter” by James Joyce
- “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane
- “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
- “And the Rock Cried Out” by Ray Bradbury
- “Angel Levine” by Bernard Malamud
- “Araby” by James Joyce
- “Averroes’ Search” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami
- “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
- “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison
- “Beware of the Dog” by Roald Dahl
- “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Birthday Girl” by Haruki Murakami
- “Bloodknot” by Athol Fugard
- “Blue Tigers” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
- “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
- “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet
- “Careful” by Raymond Carver
- “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
- “Charles” by Shirley Jackson
- “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden” by E.L. Doctorow
- “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
- “Clay” by James Joyce
- “Clytie” by Eudora Welty
- “Continuity of Parks” by Julio Cortázar
- “Counterparts” by James Joyce
- “Court in the West Eighties” by Carson McCullers
- “Cross Country Snow” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Death Constant Beyond Love” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Death of a Traveling Salesman” by Eudora Welty
- “Delia Elena San Marco” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
- “Deutsches Requiem” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Distance” by Raymond Carver
- “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Dry September” by William Faulkner
- “Emma Zunz” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Eveline” by James Joyce
- “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
- “Everything Stuck to Him” by Raymond Carver
- “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Fat” by Raymond Carver
- “Fever” by Raymond Carver
- “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor” by J.D. Salinger
- “Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Good Old Neon” by David Foster Wallace
- “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov
- “Greasy Lake” by T. C. Boyle
- “Haircut” by Ring Lardner
- “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “Here and There” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
- “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore
- “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury
- “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
- “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel
- “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Intimacy” by Raymond Carver
- “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce
- “Jack-in-the-Box” by Ray Bradbury
- “Judgement Day” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden” by Eudora Welty
- “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf
- “Landscape with Flatiron” by Haruki Murakami
- “Life Being the Best” by Kay Boyle
- “Like Mother Used to Make” by Shirley Jackson
- “Like That” by Carson McCullers
- “Little Expressionless Animals” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Lyndon” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit” by Raymond Carver
- “My Oedipus Complex” by Frank O’Connor
- “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway
- “One of These Days” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
- “Out of Season” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson
- “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
- “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver
- “Powerhouse” by Eudora Welty
- “Put Yourself in My Shoes” by Raymond Carver
- “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
- “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton
- “Runaway” by Alice Munro
- “Say Yes” by Tobias Wolff
- “Seven Types of Ambiguity” by Shirley Jackson
- “Shakespeare’s Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” by Conrad Aiken
- “Sixty Acres” by Raymond Carver
- “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
- “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Ambitious Guest” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The April Witch” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Babylon Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro
- “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Beryl Coronet” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier
- “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Blue Cross” by G. K. Chesterton
- “The Boarding House” by James Joyce
- “The Bribe” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane
- “The Cabin” by Raymond Carver
- “The Cane in the Corridor” by James Thurber
- “The Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
- “The Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
- “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
- “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck
- “The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Comforts of Home” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Courting of Dinah Shadd” by Rudyard Kipling
- “The Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Crop” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Dead” by James Joyce
- “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “The Destructors” by Graham Greene
- “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
- “The Displaced Person” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury
- “The End” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Enduring Chill” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Father” by Raymond Carver
- “The Final Problem” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Five Boons of Life” by Mark Twain
- “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Geranium” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
- “The Gloria Scott” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Greatest Man in the World” by James Thurber
- “The Greek Interpreter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (frame story + multiple stories)
- “The Immortal” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
- “The Jockey” by Carson McCullers
- “The Key” by Eudora Welty
- “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton
- “The Lame Shall Enter First ” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
- “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry
- “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
- “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Light of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Lottery in Babylon” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Man in the Woods” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Man Who Lived Underground” by Ralph Ellison
- “The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling
- “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf
- “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
- “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Missing Girl” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
- “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
- “The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates” by Stephen King
- “The Night the Ghost Got In” by James Thurber
- “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Omen” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
- “The Other Death” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft
- “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol
- “The Partridge Festival” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Prison” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Prussian Officer” by D.H. Lawrence
- “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
- “The Rats in the Walls” by H.P Lovecraft
- “The Remarkable Rocket” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Renegade” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff
- “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence
- “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
- “The Scythe” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Sea Change” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
- “The Secret Miracle” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Seed of McCoy” by Octavia Butler
- “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Small Assassin” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Sphinx Without a Secret” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
- “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London
- “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
- “The Student’s Wife” by Raymond Carver
- “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
- “The Tall Tale of the Willy Nilly” by Eudora Welty
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
- “The Tooth” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Trees” by Conrad Aiken
- “The Turkey” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Underground Woman” by Anne Cameron
- “The Unicorn in the Garden” by James Thurber
- “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Villagers” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Voyage” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Whistle” by Eudora Welty
- “The Wide Net” by Eudora Welty
- “The Wilderness” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Wind” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Witch” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
- “The Writing of the God” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “There Was an Old Woman” by Ray Bradbury
- “Three Versions of Judas” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Tiny, Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
- “To Hell with Dying” by Alice Walker
- “Touched with Fire” by Ray Bradbury
- “Trial by Combat” by Shirley Jackson
- “Tuesday Siesta” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Uncle Einar” by Ray Bradbury
- “Untitled Story” by Carson McCullers
- “Up in Michigan” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Vandals” by Raymond Carver
- “Ward No. 6” by Anton Chekhov
- “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
- “Where I’m Calling From” by Raymond Carver
- “Who Am I This Time?” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” by Raymond Carver
- “Window Shopping” by Andrienne Kennedy
- “Wunderkind” by Carson McCullers
- “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A & P by John Updike
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway
- A FIGHT WITH A CANNON by Victor Hugo
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
- A LONELY RIDE by Bret Harte
- A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
- A Passion in the Desert, by Honoré de Balza
- A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
- A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Beirce
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- ARABY by James Joyce
- Barn Burning by William Faulkner
- Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges
- Boys and Girls by Alice Monro
- Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolf
- Cathedral by Raymond Carver
- Chickamauga by Thomas Wolfe
- Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe
- Died and Gone to Vegas by Tim Gautreaux
- Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Désirée’s’s Baby by Kate Chopin
- Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
- Haircut by Ring Lardner
- Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? by Leo Tolstoy
- How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) by Junot Díaz
- I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen.
- I Want to Live! by Thom Jones
- I, Robot by Issac Asimov
- Let me know if you would like me to suggest 50 more famous short stories!
- Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
- Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- Menseteung by Alice Munro
- MY RED CAP by Louisa M. Alcott
- Nine Stories by JD Salinger
- Paul’s Case by Willa Carther
- Paul’s Case by Willa Cather
- PRESENT AT A HANGING by Ambrose Bierce
- Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood
- Soldier’s home by Ernest Hemingway
- That Evening Sun, by William Faulkner
- THE BET by Anton Chekhov
- The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Call of Cthullhu by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Capital of the World by Ernest Hemingway
- THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by Mark Twain
- THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER by Washington Irving
- The Door, by E. B Whit
- The Fall of the House of Usher’s by Edgar Allan Poe
- THE FALSE GEMS by Guy De Maupassant
- THE FORTIETH FRENCH ASCENT OF MONT BLANC by Jules Verne
- The Garden Party by Kathleen Mansfield
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
- The Hitch-Hikers by Eudora Welty
- The Lady and the Tiger by Ray Bradbury
- The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekov
- The Last Leaf by O. Henry
- THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving
- The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
- The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- THE MAGIC SHOP by H. G. Wells
- The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling
- THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
- THE Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- THE NIGHT FACE-UP by JULIO CORTAZAR
- The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane
- The Other Side of the Hedge by E.M. Forster
- The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte
- THE REAL THING by Henry James
- The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Resemblance Between a Vilin Case and a Coffin by Tennessee Williams
- The Rockinghorse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
- The Russian Prioner by Ha Jin
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
- The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
- THE SISTERS by James Joyce
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- The Swimmer by John Cheever
- The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
- The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- There Will Come Soft Rain by Ray Bradbury
- Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest
- To Build a Fire by Jack London
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates:
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
- Why Don’t You Dance by Raymond Carver (Film)
- Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty
- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
- Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ysrael” by Junot Diaz
- “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “A Beautiful Talisman” by Obotunde Ijimere
- “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Country Road. A Tree.” by James Joyce
- “A Cup of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield
- “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane
- “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Doctor’s Visit” by Anton Chekhov
- “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain
- “A Domestic Dilemma” by Carson McCullers
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
- “A History of Eternity” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce
- “A Justice” by William Faulkner
- “A Little Cloud” by James Joyce
- “A Memory” by Eudora Welty
- “A Natural History of the Dead” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
- “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger
- “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver
- “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
- “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud” by Carson McCullers
- “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
- “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather
- “A Way You’ll Never Be” by Ernest Hemingway
- “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
- “Abenjacán el Bojarí, Dead in His Labyrinth” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “About Love” by Anton Chekhov
- “Across the Bridge” by Graham Greene
- “Ad Astra” by William Faulkner
- “After the Race” by James Joyce
- “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry
- “After You, My Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson
- “Akueke” by Chinua Achebe
- “All Souls” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury
- “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away” by Stephen King
- “Almos’ a Man” by Richard Wright
- “Alone” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “An Anonymous Story” by Anton Chekhov
- “An Educated American Woman” by John Cheever
- “An Encounter” by James Joyce
- “An Experiment in Misery” by Stephen Crane
- “An Ideal Family” by Katherine Mansfield
- “An Incident at Owl Creek Ridge” by Ambrose Bierce
- “An Indiscreet Journey” by Katherine Mansfield
- “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
- “An Unwritten Novel” by Virginia Woolf
- “Araby” by James Joyce
- “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver
- “Art and Mr. Mahoney” by Carson McCullers
- “Asphodel” by Eudora Welty
- “At the Bay” by Katherine Mansfield
- “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
- “Aurora” by Junot Díaz
- “Averroes’ Search” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar
- “Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
- “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
- “Belfast Woman” by Mary Beckett
- “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Beyond” by William Faulkner
- “Biathanatos” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway (Part 1)
- “Black Peter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Blackbird Pie” by Raymond Carver
- “Blackness” by Jamaica Kincaid
- “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler
- “Blow-Up” by Julio Cortázar
- “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” by Toni Cade Bambara
- “Bonded” by Lasana Sekou
- “Boxes” by Raymond Carver
- “Boy Breaking Glass” by Gwendolyn Brooks
- “Boyfriend” by Junot Diaz
- “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro
- “Bright and Morning Star” by Richard Wright
- “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
- “Butcher’s Embrace” by Graham Greene
- “Carcassonne” by William Faulkner
- “Careful” by Raymond Carver
- “Careful” Raymond Carver
- “Carried Away” by Alice Munro
- “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
- “Charles Augustus Milverton” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Charles” by Shirley Jackson
- “Che ti dice la patria?” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
- “Clancy in the Tower of Babel” by John Cheever
- “Clay” by James Joyce
- “Clytie” by Eudora Welty
- “Collectors” by Raymond Carver
- “Come Dance With Me in Ireland” by Shirley Jackson
- “Connection” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Consuelo’s Kiss” by Junot Diaz
- “Counterparts” by James Joyce
- “Court in the West Eighties” by Carson McCullers
- “Criticism” by Edith Wharton
- “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period” by J.D. Salinger
- “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe
- “Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Death of a Traveling Salesman” by Eudora Welty
- “Defeat” by Kay Boyle
- “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
- “Deutsches Requiem” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Do What You Can” by Stonewall Jackson
- “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier
- “Down at the Dinghy” by J.D. Salinger
- “Drown” by Junot Diaz
- “Each in His Own Tongue” by William Dean Howells
- “Edgemont Drive” by E.L. Doctorow
- “Edison, New Jersey” by Junot Díaz
- “Eight O’Clock” by Hurd Hatfield
- “Elephant” by Raymond Carver
- “Emma Zunz” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “EPICAC” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “Eve’s Diary” by Mark Twain
- “Eveline” by James Joyce
- “Everything and Nothing” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
- “Eyes of a Blue Dog” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Family Furnishings” by Alice Munro
- “Fathers and Sons” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Fat” by Raymond Carver
- “Feathers” by Raymond Carver
- “Fifty Grand” by Ernest Hemingway
- “File and Forget” by James Thurber
- “First Confession” by Frank O’Connor
- “Flaca” by Junot Díaz
- “Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter
- “Flying Home” by Ralph Ellison
- “For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty” by Countee Cullen
- “Funes the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Funes, His Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Funes, the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Gazebo” by Raymond Carver
- “Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story” by Roald Dahl
- “Girls at War” by Chinua Achebe
- “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
- “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Going to Meet the Man” by James Baldwin (excerpt from novel)
- “Golden Land” by William Faulkner
- “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Goodbye, My Brother” by John Cheever
- “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov
- “Grace” by James Joyce
- “Graffiti” by Julio Cortázar
- “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- “Guests of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor
- “Gusev” by Anton Chekhov
- “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
- “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” by Alice Munro
- “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad (novella but famous excerpt)
- “Hearts and Hands” by O. Henry
- “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Heritage” by Countee Cullen
- “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Honor” by William Faulkner
- “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar
- “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro
- “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy
- “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien
- “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
- “Ice Man” by Haruki Murakami
- “Idiots First” by Bernard Malamud
- “If—” by Rudyard Kipling (poem)
- “Ill-Considered Praises of a People” by Countee Cullen
- “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
- “In the Garden of North American Martyrs” Tobias Wolff
- “In the Train” by Frank O’Connor
- “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Infection” by Octavia Butler
- “Instant of the Hour After” by Carson McCullers
- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Intimacy” by Raymond Carver
- “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce
- “Jealousy” by William Faulkner
- “John Billy” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Jolene: A Life” by E.L. Doctorow
- “Joy” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Jubilee” by Graham Greene
- “Judgement Day” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” by J.D. Salinger
- “Keela the Outcast Indian Maiden” by Eudora Welty
- “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf
- “Kindred” by Octavia Butler (Excerpt)
- “King of the Bingo Game” by Ralph Ellison
- “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
- “Lenox Avenue: Midnight” by Langston Hughes
- “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” by Julio Cortázar
- “Life of Ma Parker” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Light is Like Water” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Light” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- “Like Mother Used to Make” by Shirley Jackson
- “Livvie” by Eudora Welty
- “Lizard’s Leg” by William Faulkner
- “Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Louisa, Please Come Home” by Shirley Jackson
- “Love of Life” by Jack London
- “Lunch at the Gotham Café” by Stephen King
- “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” by Carson McCullers
- “Man and Superman” by Jamaica Kincaid
- “Man from the South” by Roald Dahl
- “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe
- “Marriage à la Mode” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Master Harold and the Boys” by Athol Fugard
- “Menudo” by Raymond Carver
- “Miles City, Montana” by Alice Munro
- “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Miss Lora” by Junot Díaz
- “Moments of Being: “Slater’s Pins Have No Points” by Virginia Woolf
- “Moon Lake” by Eudora Welty
- “Moonlight” by Kay Boyle
- “Morning Song of Senlin” by Conrad Aiken
- “Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Mr. and Mrs. Dove” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat” by Roald Dahl
- “Mrs. Sen’s” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Mule in the Yard” by William Faulkner
- “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway
- “My Old Man” Ernest Hemingway
- “N.” by Stephen King
- “Night School” by Raymond Carver
- “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (novel but famous extract)
- “Nobody Said Anything” by Raymond Carver
- “Now I Lay Me” by Ernest Hemingway
- “O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories” (multiple stories)
- “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence
- “Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D.H. Lawrence
- “Oil of Dog” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway
- “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” by Haruki Murakami
- “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien
- “One of These Days” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
- “Otravida, Otravez” by Junot Díaz
- “Pantaloon in Black” by William Faulkner
- “Parable of the Arrow” Jorge Luis Borges
- “Parable of the Palace” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson
- “Parker Adderson, Philosopher” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Parson’s Pleasure” by Roald Dahl
- “Patriotism” by Yukio Mishima
- “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
- “Pavilion” by John Updike
- “Peasants” by Frank O’Connor
- “Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty
- “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature” by Richard Rorty
- “Pictures” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Pigeon Feathers” by John Updike
- “Pigeons” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Pillar of Salt” by Shirley Jackson
- “Poor Little Black Fellow” by Langston Hughes
- “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver
- “Possum Song” by Margaret Atwood
- “Powder” by Tobias Wolff
- “Powerhouse” by Eudora Welty
- “Prelude” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes” by J.D. Salinger
- “Previous Condition” by James Baldwin
- “Proof Positive” by Graham Greene
- “Psychology” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Put Yourself in My Shoes” by Raymond Carver
- “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara
- “Reunion” by John Cheever
- “Revelations” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Revenge of the Redheaded Kid” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
- “Roald Dahl Collected Stories” (multiple famous stories)
- “Romantic Weekend” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Roselily” by Alice Walker
- “Rothschild’s Fiddle” by Anton Chekhov
- “Royal Beatings” by Alice Munro
- “Salvation” by Langston Hughes
- “Saturday’s Child” by Countee Cullen
- “Say Yes” by Tobias Wolff
- “Schrödinger’s Cat” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Shingles for the Lord” by William Faulkner
- “Short Friday” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Silver Blaze” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Six Years After” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Sixty Acres” by Raymond Carver
- “Sleep” by Haruki Murakami
- “So Much Water So Close to Home” by Raymond Carver
- “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Something Nice” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
- “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien
- “Speech Sounds” by Octavia Butler
- “Spoiled Brats” by Simon Rich
- “Spotted Horses” by William Faulkner
- “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki
- “Still Life” by Louise Glück
- “Story of the Warrior and the Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Summer People” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Sun and Moon” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Swaddling Clothes” by Yukio Mishima
- “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner
- “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French” by Stephen King
- “That Will Be Fine” by William Faulkner
- “The $30,000 Bequest” by Mark Twain
- “The Abbey Grange” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Aliens” by Carson McCullers
- “The Angel Child” by Stephen Crane
- “The Angel of the Bridge” by John Cheever
- “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Arms and Legs of the Lake” by Mary Gaitskill
- “The Astrakhan Cloak” by Kay Boyle
- “The Babylon Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Basement Room” by Graham Greene
- “The Bath” by Raymond Carver
- “The Bear Who Let It Alone” by James Thurber
- “The Bear” by William Faulkner
- “The Beauties” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Beggar and the Diamond” by Stephen King
- “The Beggar Maid” by Alice Munro
- “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier
- “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Bishop” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Black Monk” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Blanched Soldier” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Blue Cross” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
- “The Blues I’m Playing” by Ralph Ellison
- “The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Boarding House” by James Joyce
- “The Branch Line” by John Cheever
- “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane
- “The Bridle” by Raymond Carver
- “The Brooch” by William Faulkner
- “The Bruce-Partington Plans” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London (excerpt)
- “The Capital of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
- “The Chamber of Statues” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
- “The Compartment” by Raymond Carver
- “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Cop and the Anthem” by O. Henry
- “The Country Husband” by John Cheever
- “The Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Crooked Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Cure” by John Cheever
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Custodian” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Dead Father” by Donald Barthelme
- “The Dead Man” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Dead” by James Joyce
- “The Death of Halpin Frayser” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Death of Jack Hamilton” by Stephen King
- “The Death of Justina” by John Cheever
- “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace
- “The Destruction of Kreshev” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Vincent Benet
- “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
- “The Devil’s Foot” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Diary of Adam and Eve” by Mark Twain
- “The Dilettante” by Edith Wharton
- “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King
- “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Drunkard” by Frank O’Connor
- “The Dubliners” by James Joyce (short story collection)
- “The Duchess and the Jeweler” by Virginia Woolf
- “The Ducks” by Raymond Carver
- “The Dying Detective” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Empty House” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Encounter” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The End of Something” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The End” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Engineer’s Thumb” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever
- “The Escape” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia Butler
- “The Eye of Apollo” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Eyes of the Panther” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Eyes” by Edith Wharton
- “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Father” by Raymond Carver
- “The Final Problem” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever
- “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Foster Portfolio” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “The Fox” by D.H. Lawrence
- “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry
- “The Future Looks Good” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Garden of Forking Paths ” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Geometry of Love” by John Cheever
- “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
- “The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost (poem)
- “The Girl on the Plane” by Mary Gaitskill
- “The Gloria Scott” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Golem” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Grasshopper” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Grave” by Katherine Anne Porter
- “The Greek Interpreter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Guest” by Albert Camus
- “The Half-Skinned Steer” by E. Annie Proulx
- “The Haunted Boy” by Carson McCullers
- “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson (excerpt)
- “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers (Excerpt)
- “The Heart of the Matter” by Graham Greene
- “The Hint of an Explanation” by Graham Greene
- “The Hitch-Hikers” by Eudora Welty
- “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D. H. Lawrence
- “The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The House of the Dead Hand” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” by John Cheever
- “The Idea” by Raymond Carver
- “The Illustrious Client” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Immortal” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Interlopers” by Saki
- “The Intruder” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Invisible Japanese Gentleman” by Graham Greene
- “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Jewbird” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
- “The Key” by Eudora Welty
- “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Kings” by Julio Cortázar
- “The Kiss” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf
- “The Lady of the Lake” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton
- “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Lady with the Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” by Edith Wharton
- “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton
- “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
- “The Last Bow” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Last Demon” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Last Flower” by James Thurber
- “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry
- “The Last Mohican” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Legacy” by Virginia Woolf
- “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
- “The Leg” by William Faulkner
- “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
- “The Letter Writer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor
- “The Light of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Lion’s Mane” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Little Governess” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Little Things” by Raymond Carver
- “The Lives of the Dead” by Tim O’Brien
- “The Lottery in Babylon” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Macbeth Murder Mystery” by James Thurber
- “The Mad Lomasneys” by Frank O’Connor
- “The Madman” by Chinua Achebe
- “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Mainz Psalter” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Man and the Snake” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King
- “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright
- “The Marching Morons” by C.M Kornbluth
- “The March” by E.L. Doctorow
- “The Mark on the Wall” Virginia Woolf
- “The Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Meeting” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang
- “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Mirror of Ink” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Missing Person” by Tobias Wolff
- “The Missing Three-Quarter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Mission of Jane” by Edith Wharton
- “The Mocking-Bird” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
- “The Monster in the Bride’s Chamber” by Lucy Sussex
- “The Monster” by Stephen Crane
- “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
- “The Mother of a Queen” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Mourners” by Bernard Malamud
- “The Musgrave Ritual” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The National Pastime” by John Cheever
- “The Naval Treaty” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber
- “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
- “The Noble Bachelor” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D.H. Lawrence
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
- “The Open Window” by Saki
- “The Orphanage Runaways” by Carson McCullers
- “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill
- “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton
- “The Other” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte
- “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
- “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck (excerpt)
- “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Pelican” by Edith Wharton
- “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Plot” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Princess and the Tin Box” by James Thurber
- “The Priory School” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Progress of Love” by Alice Munro
- “The Prussian Officer” by D.H. Lawrence
- “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Queer Feet” by G. K. Chesterton
- “The Queer Feet” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble” by James Thurber
- “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
- “The Reaper’s Image” by Stephen King
- “The Red Circle” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Red-Headed League” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Reflection” by Carson McCullers
- “The Reigate Puzzle” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Reigate Squire” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Renegade” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Resident Patient” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Retired Colourman” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff
- “The Ring of Thor” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence
- “The Round Road” by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “The Rule of Names” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Sacrificial Egg” by Chinua Achebe
- “The School” by Donald Barthelme
- “The Sculptor’s Funeral” by Willa Cather
- “The Sea Change” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Second Bakery Attack” by Haruki Murakami
- “The Secret Goldfish” by David Means
- “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
- “The Secret Weapons” by Julio Cortázar
- “The Sect of the Phoenix” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Seed of the Faith” by Edith Wharton
- “The Sermon on the Warpland” by Gwendolyn Brooks
- “The Shape of the Sword” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Sisters” by James Joyce
- “The Skylight Room” by O. Henry
- “The Slaughterer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Sojourner” by Carson McCullers
- “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Spinoza of Market Street” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
- “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
- “The Story of the Drowning Men” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Storyteller” by Saki
- “The Stranger” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Student’s Wife” by Raymond Carver
- “The Student” by Anton Chekhov
- “The Sussex Vampire” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Theologians” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
- “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “The Three Gables” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Three Garridebs” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Three-Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Tiger Who Understood People” by James Thurber
- “The Tooth” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Train” by Raymond Carver
- “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “The Trees of Pride” by G.K Chesterton
- “The Undefeated” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Upturned Face” by Stephen Crane
- “The Veiled Lodger” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Veteran” by Stephen Crane 177 “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
- “The Villagers” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Voter” by Chinua Achebe
- “The Voyage” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Wait” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The War of the Wall” by Toni Cade Bambara
- “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl
- “The Whistle” by Eudora Welty
- “The White Deer” by James Thurber
- “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
- “The White Horses of Vienna” by Kay Boyle
- “The White Stocking” by D. H. Lawrence
- “The Wind Blows” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Witness” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The Woman Who Saw Snow” by Carson McCullers
- “The World of Apples” by John Cheever
- “The Wrong Thing” by Mary Gaitskill
- “The Wrysons” by John Cheever
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “The Young Girl” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “The £1,000,000 Bank Note” by Mark Twain
- “Theft” by Katherine Anne Porter
- “Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “There Are No Thieves in This Town” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “There Was a Queen” by William Faulkner
- “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
- “This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Thor Bridge” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Three Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Three Million Yen” by Yukio Mishima
- “Three Versions of Judas” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Tiny Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
- “To Room Nineteen” by Doris Lessing
- “Tobermory” by Saki
- “Today is Friday” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Tomorrow” by William Faulkner
- “Too Cute” by Kristen Roupenian
- “Torch Song” by John Cheever
- “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “Trial By Combat” by Shirley Jackson
- “Tuesday Siesta” by Gabriel García Márquez
- “Two Gallants” by James Joyce
- “Uncle Ben’s Choice” by Chinua Achebe
- “Uncle Willy” by William Faulkner
- “Under the Garden” by Graham Greene
- “Untitled Piece” by Carson McCullers
- “Up in Michigan” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Uprooted” by Francis King
- “Vengeful Creditor” by Chinua Achebe
- “Viewfinder” by Raymond Carver
- “Vitamins” by Raymond Carver
- “Wakefield” by E. L. Doctorow
- “Want to See Something?” by Raymond Carver
- “Ward No. 6” by Anton Chekhov
- “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson
- “We Love Glenda So Much” by Julio Cortázar
- “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
- “Weekend Revisited” by William Faulkner
- “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
- “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
- “What’s in Alaska?” by Raymond Carver
- “When Fiction Lives in Fiction” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “Where I’m Calling From” by Raymond Carver
- “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Carson McCullers
- “Who Will Greet You at Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- “Whoever Was Using This Bed” by Raymond Carver
- “Who’s Passing for Who?” by Langston Hughes
- “Why Don’t You Dance?” by Raymond Carver
- “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty
- “Why We’re Patriots” by E.L. Doctorow
- “Why, Honey?” by Raymond Carver
- “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” by Raymond Carver
- “Willi” by E. L. Doctorow
- “Wine of Wyoming” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Wingless” by Jamaica Kincaid
- “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Wisteria Lodge” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Wunderkind” by Carson McCullers
- “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “Zlateh the Goat” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you disagree or see a mistake, leave a comment. I’m happy to make changes and listen to suggestions. Thank you so much for helping create the 1000 Great Short Stories of All Time list.
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Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, by Neil Gaiman.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan
Also, St. Mawr by D.H. Lawrence and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
“Meneseteung,” by Alice Munro
“In the Gloaming,” by Alice Elliott Dark
“My Parents’ Bedroom,” by Uwem Akpan
“Intervention,” by Jill McCorkle
Thank you for your suggestions. I will add them to the list very soon!
Just surprised myself, I’ve read all of these.
Melaney, do you have any other suggestions?! Help please.
The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke
Greenleaf by Flannery O’Connor
“Sula” by Toni Morrison
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“The Blacker the Berry” by Wallace Thurman
“Black Boy” by Richard Wright
La Grosse Fifi – Jean Rhys
The Debutante – Leonora Carrington
The Poet And The Novelist As Roommates – Sheila Heti
In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried – Amy Hempel
The Letter – Lydia Davis
Oh damn, forgot Mary Gaitskill’s Romantic Weekend.
The Depressed Person by David Foster Wallace
The Babysitter by Robert Coover
The Nonce Prize by Will Self
Why I live over the P.O. Eudora Welty
The Chaser John Collier
The Hypnoglyph John Anthony (pen name for John Ciardi)
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekov
Tardy Awakening by Steen Steensen Blicher
Dead as They Come by Ian McEwan
What we talk about when we talk about love – Raymond Chandler
Let’s Go Home…unfortunately I can’t remember the author’s name. I read it a long time in ago and loved it. I’ll be grateful to anyone who could tell me the author’s name. The story is about a little boy who’s lost his mother and taken in by an uncle. On one wonderful cloudy day, he feels so elated that he rushes to his old home only to remember that his mother is no more.
The Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
Greatest idea. Short Stories have become less popular since I was a kid. How about Saki’s The Open Window. BTW, I love Raymond Chandler but “What we talk about when we talk about love” should list author as Raymond Carver.Another good one – Guy de Maupassant’s Ball of Fat.
Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
Haircut by Ring Lardner
Let’s keep this active. Tell all your reader friends to contribute.
How about Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death?’ Also, his ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ should definitely make the list.
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
An act of Kindness….a story about taking cae of feelings of ur kids or else the unimaginable happens
The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad by M.R. James
Emergency by Denis Johnson
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Some more:
Nightfall and The Last Question, both by Asimov
The Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith
Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson
Age of Lead by Margaret Atwood
The Overcoat/The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol
Barn Burning by Faulkner
Soldier’s Home by Hemingway
The Lady with the Little Dog by Chekhov
Babylon Revisited by Scott Fitzgerald
Dubliners by James Joyce is a short story collection, not a short story. 🙂
And surely some stories by Edna O’Brien, Yiyun Li, Colin Barrett and other winners of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award shoud be added to the list!
The Infallible Gadahl by Frederick Irving Anderson
Paul’s Case by Willa Cather
No Man’s Meat by Morley Callaghan
Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Dvis
The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser
The Last Leaf by O. Henry
Haircut by Ring Lardner
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
Désirée’s’s Baby by Kate Chopin
La Belle Zoraide by Kate Chopin
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Conner
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty
Chickamauga by Thomas Wolfe
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
Under the Lion’s Paw by Hamlin Garland
The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Sinclair Lewis
A Deal in Wheat by Frank Norris
The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross
The Scarecrow by Varis Fisher
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The League of Old Men by Jack London
The Red One by Jack London
An Odyssey of the North by Jack London
Lost Face by Jack London
Red Wind by Raymond Chandler
The Mexican by Jack London
Flowering Juda by Catherine Anne Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Catherine Anne Porter
The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Dashiell Hammett
A Man Called Spade by Dashiell Hammett
The Apostate by Jack London
The Third Circle by Frank Norris
The Leader of the People by John Steinbeck
The Snake by John Steinbeck
A Passage to Benares by T. S. Stribling
What Language Do Bears Speak? by Roch Carrier
The Legacy by Marvis Gallant
My Heart Is Broken by Marvis Gallant
The Torrent by Anne Hébert
The Heritage by Ringuet
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rappacini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
The Cask of Amantillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
For Esmé–with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger
Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes by J. D. Salinger
The Light of the World by Ernest Hemingway
A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
Thx for this Jerry
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Rain by W. Somerset Maugham
Vessel of Wrath by W. Somerset Maugham
Red by W. Somerset Maugham
The Pool by W. Somerset Maugham
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Money’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
Markhiem by Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Open Window by Saki
Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson
The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. Wodehouse
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet
Wasted Beauty by Guy de Maupassant
The Jewels by Guy de Maupassant
Ball of Fat by Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Passion in the Dessert by Honare Balzac
The Bet by Anton Chekov
Please please! Somebody help me! I cant remember the name of the short story where the old womans gnome travels and sends postcards, get sick, and then the lady is murdered at the end when the gnome comes home? Please someone must know it!!
@Dre I believe it’s called “Wish you were here.” Great story!
Josephine the Singer (also known as The Mouse Folk) by Franz Kafka
The Judgement by Franz Kafka
Light is Like Water by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book by VS Naipaul
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (variously referred to as a short story or novella)
Esiotrot by Roald Dahl
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Question 1: how to decide which short stories are masquerading as novellas?
Question 2: many anthologies make use of excerpts from much longer works. Some of these can compete with the best short stories. (I’m thinking, for instance, of Bob Geldorf’s piece taken from Is That It? that appears in the Picador collection Worst Journeys. Should these be considered?
I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People by Pauline Melville
My Girl and the City by Samuel Selvon
The Cricket Match by Samuel Selvon
As a long-time high-school English teacher, I’d be disappointed if you didn’t include these titles in a top-1000 list. Some of these titles were Hugo award-winners or nominated for best short story:
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” 1974 Hugo award-winner by Ursela le Guin
“The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant
“The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank Stockton
“The Lottery” Shirley Jackson
“Flowers for Algernon” 1960 Hugo award-winner by Daniel Keyes
“There Will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury
Parsons pleasure by Roald Dahl
I can’t remember the name of one of my favorites, about a guy who goes to the shoemaker, two brothers that run an old time shop that slowly goes out of business. I’d be much abliged if someone can tell what it’s called.
Alibi Ike by Ring Lardner. The funniest thing you’ll ever read, a sports story and a love story all in one.
You could look it up by James Thurber
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin (the shortest novel I ever read)
Has anyone mentioned Bartleby the Scivener? I always considered it one of the very best.
It’s on the list, but thank you
I was told to read:
The All-Girl Football Team
My People’s Waltz
Quality by John Galsworthy
The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith
Short stories
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Alphabetically arranged list of Story writers
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Chinua Achebe – Dead man’s path, Marriage is a private affair,
Samuel Hopkins Adams Such as walk in darkness B
George Ade To make a hoosier holiday B
C.N. Adichie – The thing around your neck.
Joan Aiken Lob’s girl
Alcott – Scarlet stockings
T.B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw B
Joseph A. Altsheler After the battle B
Ambrose An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Frederick Irving Anderson – Infallible Gadahi (The),
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Death in the woods, I want to know why, Little match girl (The), Ohio, Other woman (The),
Leonid Andreiev Valia B
T.S. Arthur – Angel in disguise (An),
Issac Asimov The fun they had, I-robot,
Margaret Atwood – Rape fantasies,
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J.G Ballard Billennium
H.D. Balzac , (France) – A passion in the desert, The unknown masterpiece B
Toxi Cade Bambara Raymond’s run
Julian Barnes – Pulse,
Alexander Baron – The man who knew too much**,
J.M. Barrie The Courting of T’nowhead’s bell B
John Barth (1930-Lost in the funhouse
Donald Barthelme (1933- The school T
H.E. Bates The ox
Rudolf Baumbach The fountain of youth B***
Stephen Vincent Benet – Devil’s Daniel Webster (The),
Ambrose Bierce (Am-1842-1914) – Beyond the wall, Boarded window, Chickamagua, The damned thing B, Horseman in the sky (A),Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Present at a hanging, What occurred at Franklin,
Bjornstjerme Bjornson Railroad and churchyard B**
Ami Bloom – The story, Silver water,
Ruskin Bond – The thief, The tiger in the tunnel,
Jorge Luis Borges – Borges and I B*, The Circular ruins , The South,
Paul Bowles In the red room
Ray Bradbury All summer in a day, A Lady or Tiger?* Sound of thunder, There will come soft rains,The Veldt*m
Pearl S. Buck – The refugee
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Morley Callaghan – No man’s meat,
Roch Carrier – What language do bears speak?,
Raymond Carver Cathedral, Why don’t you dance, Will you please be quiet,
Willa Cather – On the Gull’s road, Paul’s case,
Robert Cavanaugh Miss Awful
Raymond Chandler – Red wind,
John Cheever Goodbye my brother, Swimmer (The),
Anton Chekhov (Russia-1860-1904) Aborigines, Agafya, The Album, At home, Bad weather, The beauties, Bet (The), The black monk, A Chameleon, Champagne, ●The Darling●, An enigmatic nature, Day in the country (A), A dead body, The death of a Government clerk, Dreams, Excellent people, The fish, A gentleman friend, A happy man, Happiness, The head gardener’s story, Home, The Huntsman, Hush !, In an hotel, In exile, Ladies, Lady with the dog (The), Looking Glass (The), Lottery ticket (The) Love, , Minds in Ferment, Misery, A Mystery, Neighbours, Peasant wives, The post, School mistress (The), A slander The Slanderer B, Strong impressions, The student, The Trousseau, ●Ward no. 6●, The witch, A work of art, A work of art B** ,Vanka,
G.K. Chesterton – The queer feetB*3
Kate Chopin – Desire’s baby, La belle Zoralde, Night came slowly (The), Regret, Story of an hour (The),
Agatha Christie – A pot of tea,
Sandra Cisneross – Eleven, Geraldo no name,
Stuart Cloete – Soldier’s peaches (The),
Judith Ortiz Cofer American history
John Collier – Chaser (The) T
E.E.J. Coppee The lost child B
Richard Connell – Most dangerous game (The),
Joseph Conrad – Lagoon (The) , Secret sharer (The),
Robert Coover (1932- The magic poker
A.E. Coppard (
Robert Cormier The moustache
Julio Cortázar – Continuity of the parks T, Night face up (The),
● Stephen Crane (Am-1871-1900)
Blue hotel (The), Dark brown dog (A), An Experiment in misery Tb, Maggie Tm, The Open boat Tm , Pair of silk stockings (A),
Michael Cunningham – White angel,
James Oliver Curwood His first penitent B
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Roald Dahl – Beware of the dog, Lamb to the slaughter, The Landlady, Man from the south, The umbrella man,
Gabriel D’Annunzio The end of Candia B
Richard Harding Davis Balacchi Brothers B, The consul, Life in the iron mills,
Fielding Dawson – The vertical field,
Margaret Deland Many waters B
Anita Desai Games at twilight
Junot Diaz – How to date a brown girl,
Charles Dickens – The Baron of Grogzwig, The poor relation’s story, Signal man (The)
Dostoievski The thief B
Arthur Conan Doyle – B24, My friend the murderer B, Red headed league (The), A scandal in Bohemia B
Theodore Dreisser The lost Phoebe B
Alexander Dumas A bal Masque B, Hanging at La Piroche B
F.P. Dunne Mr. Dooley on the pursuit of riches B
H.V. Dyke – The first Christmas tree,
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Jennifer Egan – Emerald city,
Nataly Von Eschstruth The Gray nun B
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) – Barn burning, The Bear, Rose for Emily, That eve-sun,
Edna Ferber They brought their women B
Varis Fisher – The Scarecrow,
F.S. Fitzgerald – Babylon revisited, The Curious case of Benjamin Button , A Diamond as big as a ritz,
Ambrose Flac – The stranger that came to town,
Antonio Fogazzaro The silver crucifix B
JW.De Forest The Brigade commandar B
E.M. Forster The eternal moment B, The Other side of the Hedge,
Anatole France Putois B
M.E.W. Freeman – The cat,
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Emile Gaboriau The accursed house B
Neil Gaiman – How to talk to girls at parties,
Marsis Gallant – My heart is broken,
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) – Under the lion’s paw,
Theophile Gautier The Mummy’s foot B
Tim Gautreaux – Died and gone to Vegas,
William Gay – The paper hanger,
C.P. Gilman – The yellow wallpaper,
Susan Glaspell – A jury of her peers,
Nokolai Vsilievitch Gogol – The Clock, The Nose, The cloak (The overcoat) B
Maxim Gorky Boless/Her lover B*5
Patricia Grace Journey
Graham Green – The end of party, The case for the defence,
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Edward Everett Hale The man without a country B
Dashiell Hammett – The girl with the silver eyes,
Henry Harland Rosemary for remembrance B
Joel Chandler Harris Brother Rabbit’s cradle B
Bret Harte (Am-1836-1902) – A Lonely ride, The Luck of the roaring camp B, The Outcasts of Poker flat B, Tennessee’s partner,
L.P. Hartley A Summons and The Apples
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805-1864) The ambitious guest, Birthmark**, David Swan, Dr. Heidegger’s experiment B, Ethan Brand, The great stone face B ,The green carbuncle,How Santa Claus came, Major Molineun, Minister’s black veil, My kinsman, Ropaccini’s daughter, The wedding knell, Young Goodman Brown**,
A.A. Hayes The Denver Express B
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) – A clean well lighted place, A day’s wait, The Killers, Light of the world, The shortest happy life of Francis Macomber, The snows of Kilimanjaro, Soldier’s home,
Liliana Heker The stolen party
Anne Herbert – The Torrent,
Paul Johan Ludvig Heyse Young girl of Teipei B**
Patricia Highsmith Ming’s Biggest Prey
Langston Huges Thank you m’am
Victor Hugo – A Flight with a canon
Evan Hunter – The last spin
James Hurst The scarlet ibis
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) – The Legend of sleepy hollow, Rip Van Winkle*
Boaz Izraeli The monkey,
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Shirley Jackson Charles, The Lottery
W.W. Jacobs The monkey’s paw
Henry James (1843-1916) – The real thing
Jules Gabriel Janin The Vandean marriage B
Jerome K Jerome – A fishy story*,
Ha Jin The Russian Prisoner
Denis Johnson Emergency
Thom Jones I want to live, The Pugilist at rest
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby, The Dead clay, Dubliners, A little cloud, The Sisters,
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Franz Kafka – Hunger artist (A), In the penal colony,
Myra Kelly A Christmas present for a lady B,
Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
Stephen King – The body, Harvey’s dream.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Rikki Tikki Tavi, The elephant’s child, How the leopard got its spots, The man who would be king B
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Stront
Lerzv Koainski Steps,
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Selma Lagerlof The Outlaws B, The Rattrap B
Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpretation of maladies,
Ring Lardner The golden honeymoon, Haircut B
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Odour of Chrysanthemums, The Rocking Horse winner*, Second best**,The shades of spring*, St. Mawr, The white stocking*,
Stephen Leacock – The conjurer’s revenge,
Jonathan Lethem The happy man,
Doris Lessing Through the tunnel
Sinclair Lewis Man who knew Coolidge (The),
Jack London Apostle, The Legend of old man, Lost face, The Mexican, The Odyssey of the North, A piece of streak, The red one, To build a fire,
John Luther Long Purple eyes B
Malcolm Lorrie Under the volcano,
H.P. Lovecraft Call of Cthullhu (The),
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Bernard Malamaud The prison
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) The fly, The garden party, The stranger,
Panteg Marshall To da-dah, in memorium
Gabriel Garcia Marques –
Eyes of a blue dog, The handsomest drowned man in the world Tm , One of these days, The very old man with enormous wings,
W. Somerset Maugham The Colonel’s lady*, The Fall of Edward Barnard*, Gigolo and Gigolette*, Jane**, The lotus eater**, Luncheon, Rain*, Red, The vessel of wrath,
Guy de Maupassant (France-1850-93) – Affair of state (An), Ball of fat, Bellflower, The bit of string B**, ●Boule de Suif●, Christening (The), Coco, Confessing, Coward (A), Dead woman’s secret (A), Denis, Devil (The), Donkey (The), Dowry (The), Drunkard (The), False gems (The), Family (A), Farewell, Father (The), Friend Patience, Hairpin (The), Hand (The), Humble drama (A), Humiliation, In the wood, In discretion, Inn (The), Jewels (The), Julie Romain, Kiss (The), Madame Parisse, Madmoiselle Fifi, Madmoiselle Pearl, Marquis de Fumerol (The), Miss Harriet, Misti-Recollections of bachelor, Moonlight, The necklace B* Old Mongilet, Piece of string (The), Pig of Morin (The), Theodule Sabot’s confession, Timbuctoo, Toine, Two little soldiers, Unknown (The), Useless beauty, Vagabond (The), Vendetta (The), Waiter, a Bock!, Wasted beauty, Wreck (The), Yvelle,
Carson McCullers Ballad of sad cafe (The), Jon McGregor This isn’t the sort of things that happens to someone like you,
Herman Melville – Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The fiddler, The lighting-rod man, The paradise of bachelors, The Scrivener,
Prosper Merimee (France) – Mateo Falcone, How the redoubt was taken B
David Miller The glimpses of Truth,
Rohiton Mistry Of white hairs and cricket
William De Mille Ruthless
Lorrie Moore Dance in America,
Hector Hugo Munro (Saki) –
Boys and girls, The Dusk*, Gabriel EarnestTo, Interlopers, Love of a good woman Meneseteung, The mouse, Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger, The open window, Runaway, Sredni Vashtar, The story teller*5,
Harukai Murakami The second bakery attack
W.H.H. Murray A ride with a mad horse in a freight car B
Alfred Louis Charles De Musset The Beauty spot B
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R.K. Narayan A horse and two goats, An astrologer’s day B
Thomas Nelson The burial of the guns
W. Doglas Newton The charge B
Max Nordau Deliverance B
Frank Norris Deal in wheat (A), Third circle (The),
Vladimir Novokov – Signs and symbols
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Carol Oates (1938- Where are you going, Where have you been,
Fitz-James O’Brien The diamond lens B, Things they carried (The),
Flannery O’Connor – Displaced person (The), A good man is hard to find, The lame shall enter first, The man of the house,
O’Flaherty The sniper*5,
O’Henry(Am-1862-1910) Black jacket burgainer (A), Cactus (the), Coming out of the Maggie (The), Gift of the Magi*3, Hearts and hands, Jimmy Valentine*, The last leaf, The Princess and the puma*, The phonograph and the graft B, Ransom of red chief (the), The skylight room *5, The Whirligig of life
O’Keefe Death makes a comeback,
Tillie Olsen I stand here ironing,
Orwell – Politics and the English language, Shooting an elephant,
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Z.Z. Packer Brownies,
Dorothy Parker Big blonde B, A Telephone call,
Alan Paton – Ha’penny,
Lyudmila Petrushevskya Like Penelope,
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The black lack cat, The Cask of Amontillago**, The Descent into maelstrom, The Facts in the case of M.Valdemar, The Fall of the house of Usher** The gold bug B, Hop frog, The Imp of Perverse, Ligeia** The Masque of the red death, Mesmeric revelation, The Murders in the Rue Morgue B,The pittman and the pendulum, Premature burial (The), Purloined letter (The), Tell tale Heart (The), Thousand-and-second Tale of Scheherazade (The), Von Kempelen and his discovery,
Catherine Anne Porter Flowering Juda, Jilting of Granny Weatherall (The),
Alexander Pushkin (Russia)The queen of spades B
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A.T. Quilter-Couch The roll call of the reef B
Horacio Quiroga – The decapitated chicken. Tm
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Ringuet Heritage (The),
Sinclair Ross – Painted door (The),
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Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Thou shall not kill B
J.D. Salinger – The catcher in the rye, For Esme, Nine stories, Pretty mouth and green my eyes,
William Saroyan Darling (The), Young man on the flying trapeze,
George Saunders Fall (The), Pastoralia, Puppy, Sea Oak, Tenth of December,
Arthur Schnitzler – Dead are silent (The), The Dead are Silent B*
Eugene Scribe The price of life**
Maurice Shadbolt The people before
Arwin Shaw The girls in their summer dresses,
Mona Simpson Lawns,
Ahdaf Soueif Sandpiper
Frank L. Spearman The run of the yellow mail
John Steinbeck Leader of the people (The), Snake (The),
R.L. Stevenson (1850-94) – The body snatcher, Bottle imp (The), Markheim, The sire de Maletroit’s door, The suicide club
Carl Stephenson Leiningen VS. ants,
Frank Stockton Griffin (The), The lady or the tiger, My terminal moraine
T.S. Stribling Passage to Benares (A),
Jean August Strindberg Love and Bread
Stroker, Bam Stroker Dracula guest,
Jesse Stuart The split cherry Tree,
Hermann Sundermann A new year’s evening confession
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Antonio Tabucchi The trains that go to Madras,
Booth Tarkington Mrs. Protheroe
Avery Taylor – Remember the roses,
Bayard Taylor Who was she?
Nokolai Teleshov The duel
Theodore Thomas Test
Dylan Thomas A child’s Christmas in Wales,
Adam Thorpe Tyre
James Thuber The secret life of Walter Mitty,
Leo Tolstoy (Russia-1828-1910) – ●The death of Ivan Ilytch●,● Family happiness●, The long exile, How much land does a man require? , Three questions, What men live by
J.T. Trowbridge The Man who stole a meeting house
Evan Turgenev (1813-83) The Rendezvous
Mark Twain – Burlesque biography (A), The celebrated jumping frog, Italian with a grammar, Italian with a master, Luck, Private (The) history of a campaign that failed,Telephonic (A) conversation , Was it heaven or hell,
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John Updike (1932- ) A&P,
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Giovani Verga Cavalleria Rusticana
Jules Verne – Fortieth French ascent of Mont Blanc,
Barbara Vine House of stairs (The)
Kurt Vonnegut Harrison Bergaron, Welcome to the honeymoon,
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Patrick Waddington The street that got misled,
Foster Wallace Girl with curious hair,
S.T Warner The phoenix
Irving Washington Legend of sleeping hollow (The),
H.G. Wells Door in the wall (The), The magic shop, The red room*5, Time machine,
Leila Burton Wells Bondage
Eudora Welty Hitch Hikers (The), Why I live at the post office,
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) – Afterwards, Souls belated,
E.B. White Door in the wall (The),
Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince, The nightingale and the rose, The devoted friend**
Tennessee William – Resemblance between a Vilin Case and coffin
William Carlos Williams – Use of force (The),
Thomas Wolfe – Chickamauga,
P.G. Wodehouse -Clicking of Cuthbert (The), The prize poem,
Virginia Woolf – Haunted house (A)
Richard Wright – Man who lived underground (The),
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Emile Zola Fete at Coqueville
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General stories
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K.A. Abbas Sparrows
Peter Bichsel The man who no longer wanted to know**
Ruskin Bond BDn The night train at Deoli**
A.R. Burton Going places*
Karel Capek The fortune teller**
Joyce Cary Growing up**
Arthur Conun Clarke Report on planet three
K.N.Daruwala Love across the salt desert
Anita Desai A devoted son
Nathaniel Hawthorne Dr. Heidegger’s experiment**
Amy Hempel At the gate of Animal Kingdom OL
Sheila Heti Mermaid in the jar OL
George Klein A dwarf’s Tale OL
Selma Lagerlof The Rattrap*
Maxim Loskutoff End Times OL
E.V. Lucas Third thought**
Hilary Mantel The assassination of Margaret Thatcher OL
A.G. Macdonell A village cricket match
Laura Jean McKay The real Cambodia OL
A. Mishani Reflections in the lake OL
Irne Nemirovsky Domingo OL
Uri Orlev The Chinese OL
George Orwell The rebellion
Willard Price Trailing the Jaguar
Evgeny Schwartz The boss OL
Khuswant Singh The Portrait of a Lady
R.N. Tagore The castaway
Leo Tolstoy What men live by*
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The Egg, by Andy Weir has always been brough up whenever I hear a conversation about short stories.
I think any list without it is incomplete.
Also there are better Allen Poe stories but I guess you could populate the list with them.
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx hasn’t been mentioned yet. A beautiful piece of writing.
My list of suggestions. Some are already up there.
“The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Purloined Letter” (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
“The New Utopia” (1891) by Jerome K. Jerome
“The Story of an Hour” (1894) by Kate Chopin
“Afterward” (1902) by Edith Wharton
“The Monkey’s Paw” (1902) by W. W. Jacobs
“To Build a Fire” (1908) by Jack London
“Goliah” (1909) by Jack London
“The Machine Stops” (1909) by E. M. Forster
“The Jameson Satellite” (1931) by Neil R. Jones
“Who Goes There?” (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
“The Wall” (1939) by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Katina” (1941) by Roald Dahl
“Arena” (1944), by Fredric Brown
“The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson
“There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950) by Ray Bradbury
“The Marching Morons” by C. M. Kornbluth
“Lamb to the Slaughter” (1953) by Roald Dahl
“The Adjustment Team” (1954), by Philip K. Dick
“Fondly Fahrenheit” (1954) by Alfred Bester
“Brightside Crossing” (1956), by Alan E. Nourse
“Thank you, Ma’am” (1958) by Langston Hughes
“Examination Day” (1958), by Henry Slesar
“Billennium” (1962) by J. G. Ballard
“Marigolds” (1969) by Eugenia Collier
“The Village” (1969) by Kate Wilhelm
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) by Ursula K. LeGuin
“The Forbidden Words of Margaret A.” (1990) by L. Timmel Duchamp
“Peter Skilling” (a.k.a., “Retroactive Anti-Terror”) (2004) by Alex Irvine
“Red Card” (2007) by S. L. Gilbow
“The Osage Orange Tree” (2014) by William Stafford
“The Secret Integration” and “Under the Rose”, both by Thomas Pynchon (does this list still get updated btw?)
“Configuration of the North Shore,” “Narrow Valley,” “Continued on Next Rock,” “The Hole on the Corner,” “Cliffs That Laughed,” all by R. A. Lafferty.
“The Man Who lost the Sea,” Theodore Sturgeon.
“Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight,” Ursula K.. LeGuin.
“All You Zombies,” Robert Heinlein.
“Ten Thousand Assyrians,” William Saroyan.
“Are You Too Late, or Was I Too Early?” John Collier.
“The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore,” Harlan Ellison.
I’m glad to see Paul’s Case included. I also believe Sonny’s Blues, Flight, The Overcoat, Silent Snow, Secret Snow and some others by Hemingway, Conrad and London belong in a top 50s list.
The Lottery at least for me is too casually violent.
1. “The Dead,” James Joyce; Last two paragraphs constitute, to many, some of the most beautiful writing in our language.
2. “Odour of Chrysanthemums,” D H Lawrence. Death of a husband; Defines loneliness and the feeling of profound isolation and separateness of each of us possibly better than anything ever written.
3. “Dry September,” Wm. Faulkner – the evil that is latent in us all.
4. “Winter Dreams,” Scott Fitzgerald; The loss of our most cherished youthful hopes.
5. “A Christmas Memory,” Truman Capote; the strength of love and deepest friendship even in the permanency of profound loss and change. A beautiful story.
6. “The Sojourner,” Carson McCullers; the consequences of a wasted life due to fear of commitment.
7. “In Football Season,” John Updike; A fond and bright reflection of happy high school memories and friendships. Anyone who enjoyed their high school years will find happy reminiscence here.
8. “The Land and the Water,”; Shirley Anne Grau; a child’s first understanding of death, and the effect it has on her. Superb.
9. “The Monkey’s Paw;” WW Jacobs; the classic and finest ghost story ever written.
10. “Shaving,” Leslie Norris (Welsh); A devoted teenage son ministers lovingly to his beloved, but dying, father. A good death, if ever such can be.
11. “The Last Lesson,”; by Daudet (French writer) A teacher in a provincial town delivers his final lesson just before victorious Prussian soldiers come in to take charge of the schools and mandate teaching of German language and culture.
12. “Seven Floors,” Dino Buzatti. A man admitted to a hospital for minor illness sees his condition continually diagnosed as unaccountably worsening amidst a cold and sterile environment. Indictment of modern isolation and technology.
13. “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket,” by Kawabata (Japan) – the most moving story of childhood innocence and joy I have ever read.
14, “Discovery of a Father,” Sherwood Anderson; A young boy thinks his father nothing but a clown until a late night swim together opens his eyes to the dignity and fineness of his dad.
15. “Flight” John Steinbeck – a young Mexican boy must become a man quickly after knifing a man out of hot, angry pride. The description of his flight on horseback from a pursuing posse through the West Mexican wilds and mountains is a thrilling story.
16. “My Oedipus Complex,” Frank O’Connor; A happy young boy quickly becomes very unhappy when his father (whom he’s too young to have met before) returns from four years of war replacing the boy in his mother’s attentions. Very humorous.
17. “The First Death of Her Life,” Elizabeth Taylor (NOT the actress, but a superb English short story writer.) A teenage girl’s confrontation with the death of her mother, and the grief shared with her father.
This is a worthy endeavor which may even lead to some excellent anthologies resulting in a wider variety of stories than is typically seen. We wish you the best.
Hunters in the snow by Tobias Wolf, Desirees Baby by Kate chopin The River by Flannery O’Connor
Revelation by Flannery O Connor, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
August 1, 2019
Hello Every Writer (& Reader),
I’m looking for an old short story I read over 20 years ago in an old (lost) textbook that contained compilations of short stories, essays and other writings. I don’t when the story was actually written or published. And, of course, I don’t remember the title or the author. I’ve been on a futile search. No luck with a university librarian or a public librarian. I’ve searched this and other sites, as well.
With all the readers & writers on this website, I’m hoping someone can help me identify and find this story. A brief description:
It was about a man who lived all his life in the same village and when he died was buried in the local cemetery. The story is about how he was remembered and then ultimately, over the passage of time, his existence was erased.
I don’t remember for sure but I think it was set somewhere in Europe maybe in 1800’s. He was a carpenter and furniture maker. There were examples of how the memory of him and his existence on earth, eventually disappeared in the years following his death:
1. A desk he had built for a customer was being moved and the old hand-written paid receipt he had given his customer flew out of a drawer and blew away. The rain washed away his writing. That was the last of anything he had ever written.
2. An old woman lay dying and she remembered a young man she had once known – that was the last time he was ever thought of by another person.
3. One cold and cruel winter, the wooden cross on his grave was stolen and used for firewood. That was the last remaining sign he had ever existed.
Appreciate anyone’s help!! Thank you.
Pam
Wonderful story, Pam. Now I, too, wish I knew the title. Doesn’t sound American or British. Perhaps Russian; maybe French ? If you find out, please post.
You need to travel the world through short stories. I suggest you read more German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Chinese writers (among the more or less well-known literatures), but if you really want to dig deeper, look for Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Polishs, Czechs, Ukrainians, Swedishs, Danes, Dutchs, Koreans, Brazilians, Mexicans, Angolans, Mozambicans and Indians writers. At least these. I assure you that in each of these literatures you will find not only short stories that will go to a list of a thousand, but even to a list of top 100. Greetings from Brazil!
Seeing no John Wyndham here:- Chronoclasm, Meteor, Opposite Number
I can find Stockton’s story but not Bradbury.
100. The Lady and the Tiger by Ray Bradbury
“The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank Stockton
Here are some things I noticed while looking quickly through your list:
309 and 310 are the same story.
321 is a collection, not a story.
331 is not a story.
336 is a collection, not a story (it also appears at 788).
337 and 338 are the same story.
391 and 392 are the same story.
400 and 401 are the same story.
447, 449, and 638 are the same story — “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
485 and 486 are the same story.
540, 541, and 542 are all the same story.
630 and 631 are the same story.
639 and 640 are the same story.
700 and 701 are the same story.
854 and 859 are the same story.
855 and 856 are the same story.
935 and 936 are the same story.
Thank you for doing this. i think something from Jean Stafford should be included. Her collection won the Pulitzer. i think 2-3 of her stories belong on the list.
(00)@1000 Greatest Stories of All Time
0827.Albert Camus@The Guest.htm
0314.Alice Munro@Boys & Girls.htm
0480.Alice Munro@Boys & Girls.htm
0487.Alice Munro@Carried Away.htm
0529.Alice Munro@Family Furnishings
0560.Alice Munro@Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.htm
0569.Alice Munro How I Met My Husband.htm
0332.Alice Munro@The Love of a Good Woman.htm
0334.Alice Munro@Meneseteung (1990).htm
0617.Alice Munro@Miles City, Montana.htm
0687.Alice Munro@Royal Beatings.htm
0122.Alice Munro@Runaway.htm
0133.Alice Munro@The Bear Came Over the Mountain.htm
0734.Alice Munro@The Beggar Maid.htm
0932.Alice Munro@The Progress of Love.htm
0066.Alice Walker@Everyday Use
0685.Alice Walker@Roselily
0283.Alice Walker@To Hell with Dying
0411.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; A Horseman in the Sky
0447.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0309.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0027.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0310.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0449.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0638.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
0046.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; Chickamauga
0493.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; Chickamauga
0641.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; Oil of Dog
0652.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; Parker Adderson, Philosopher
0339.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; Present at Hanging
0744.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Boarded Window
0773.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Death of Halpin Frayser
0801.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Eyes of the Panther
0885.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Man & the Snake
0211.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
0895.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
0901.Ambrose Bierce@Short Stories.htm; The Mocking-Bird
0085.Amy Hempel@In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried.htm
0296.Andrienne Kennedy@Window Shopping*
0264.Anne Cameron@The Underground Woman*
0040.Annie Proulx@Brokeback Mountain.htm
0828.Annie Proulx@The Half-Skinned Steer.htm
0406.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; A Doctor’s Visit
0430.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; About Love
0442.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; An Anonymous Story
0076.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Gooseberries
0552.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Gooseberries
0557.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Gusev
0686.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Rothschild’s Fiddle
0731.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Beauties
0136.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Bet
0343.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Bet
0737.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Bishop
0739.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Black Monk
0157.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Darling
0768.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Darling
0824.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Grasshopper
0851.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Kiss
0192.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Lady with the Dog
0359.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Lady with the Dog
0855.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Lady with the Dog
0856.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Lady with the Dog (Little)
0857.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Lady with the Dog (Pet)
0980.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; The Student
0291.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Ward No.6
1056.Anton Chekhov@Short Stories by Chekhov(PG).htm; Ward No.6
0912.Arthur C.Clarke@The Nine Billion Names of God
0418.Arthur Conan Doyle@A Scandal in Bohemia
0469.Arthur Conan Doyle@Black Peter
0490.Arthur Conan Doyle@Charles Augustus Milverton
0606.Arthur Conan Doyle@Lot No.249
0695.Arthur Conan Doyle@Silver Blaze
0718.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Abbey Grange
0135.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Beryl Coronet
0740.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Blanched Soldier
0750.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Bruce-Partington Plans
0153.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Creeping Man
0762.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Creeping Man
0763.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Crooked Man
0780.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Devil’s Foot
0791.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Dying Detective
0792.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Empty House
0796.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Engineer’s Thumb
0171.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Final Problem
0805.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Final Problem
0181.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Gloria Scott
0822.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Gloria Scott
0183.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Greek Interpreter
0826.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Greek Interpreter
0840.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Illustrious Client
0861.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Last Bow
0874.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Lion’s Mane
0201.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Lot No.249
0899.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Missing Three-Quarter
0908.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Musgrave Ritual
0910.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Naval Treaty
0913.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Noble Bachelor
0931.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Priory School
0376.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Red-Headed League
0941.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Red-Headed League
0940.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Red Circle
0943.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Reigate Puzzle
0944.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Reigate Squire
0946.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Resident Patient
0947.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Retired Colourman
0981.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Sussex Vampire
0987.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Three Gables
0988.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Three Garridebs
0997.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Veiled Lodger
1027.Arthur Conan Doyle@Thor Bridge
1081.Arthur Conan Doyle@Wisteria Lodge
0038.Athol Fugard@Bloodknot
0615.Athol Fugard@Master Harold & the Boys
0029.Bernard Malamud@Angel Levine
0574.Bernard Malamud@Idiots First
0173.Bernard Malamud@The Fixer
0807.Bernard Malamud@The Fixer
0846.Bernard Malamud@The Jewbird
0853.Bernard Malamud@The Lady of the Lake
0865.Bernard Malamud@The Last Mohican
0204.Bernard Malamud@The Magic Barrel
0883.Bernard Malamud@The Magic Barrel
0907.Bernard Malamud@The Mourners
0230.Bernard Malamud@The Prison
0320.Bram Stoker@Dracula’s Guest
0304.Bret Harte@A Lonely Ride
0922.Bret Harte@The Outcasts of Poker Flat
0374.Bret Harte@The Outcasts of Poker Flat
0888.C.M.Kornbluth@The Marching Morons
0486.Raymond Carver@Careful
0408.Carson McCullers@A Domestic Dilemma
0422.Carson McCullers@A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
0453.Carson McCullers@Art & Mr.Mahoney
0053.Carson McCullers@Court in the West Eighties
0503.Carson McCullers@Court in the West Eighties
0582.Carson McCullers@Instant of the Hour After
0097.Carson McCullers@Like That
0610.Carson McCullers@Madame Zilensky & the King of Finland
0720.Carson McCullers@The Aliens
0829.Carson McCullers@The Haunted Boy
0831.Carson McCullers@The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Excerpt)
0189.Carson McCullers@The Jockey
0918.Carson McCullers@The Orphanage Runaways
0942.Carson McCullers@The Reflection
0971.Carson McCullers@The Sojourner
1013.Carson McCullers@The Woman Who Saw Snow
1048.Carson McCullers@Untitled Piece
0288.Carson McCullers@Untitled Story
1068.Carson McCullers@Who Has Seen the Wind?
0297.Carson McCullers@Wunderkind
1082.Carson McCullers@Wunderkind
0276.Charlotte Perkins Gilman@The Yellow Wallpaper
1017.Charlotte Perkins Gilman@The Yellow Wallpaper
0436.Chinua Achebe@Akueke
0048.Chinua Achebe@Civil Peace
0494.Chinua Achebe@Civil Peace
0318.Chinua Achebe@Dead Man’s Path
0506.Chinua Achebe@Dead Men’s Path
0545.Chinua Achebe@Girls at War
0613.Chinua Achebe@Marriage is a Private Affair
0882.Chinua Achebe@The Madman
0953.Chinua Achebe@The Sacrificial Egg
1001.Chinua Achebe@The Voter
1045.Chinua Achebe@Uncle Ben’s Choice
1051.Chinua Achebe@Vengeful Creditor
0285.Shirley Jackson@Trial by Combat
1042.Shirley Jackson@Trial by Combat
0623.Conrad Aiken@Morning Song of Senlin
0126.Conrad Aiken@Silent Snow, Secret Snow
0262.Conrad Aiken@The Trees(Elder Tree?)
0539.Countee Cullen@To John Keats, Apostle of Beauty
0565.Countee Cullen@Heritage
0576.Countee Cullen@Ill-Considered Praises of a People
0689.Countee Cullen@Saturday’s Child
0639.D.H.Lawrence@Odour of Chrysanthemums
0640.D.H.Lawrence@Odour of Chrysanthemums
0914.D.H.Lawrence@Odour of Chrysanthemums
0811.D.H.Lawrence@The Fox
0835.D.H.Lawrence@The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
0231.D.H.Lawrence@The Prussian Officer
0933.D.H.Lawrence@The Prussian Officer
0237.D.H.Lawrence@The Rocking-Horse Winner
0950.D.H.Lawrence@The Rocking-Horse Winner
0378.D.H.Lawrence@The Rocking-horse Winner
1010.D.H.Lawrence@The White Stocking
0513.Daphne du Maurier@Don’t Look Now
0137.Daphne du Maurier@The Birds
0735.Daphne du Maurier@The Birds
0072.David Foster Wallace@Forever Overhead
0080.David Foster Wallace@Here & There
0587.David Foster Wallace@John Billy
0098.David Foster Wallace@Little Expressionless Animals
0099.David Foster Wallace@Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR
0100.David Foster Wallace@Lyndon
0160.David Foster Wallace@The Depressed Person
1041.David Foster Wallace@Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko
1061.David Foster Wallace@Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
0323.David Foster Wallace@Girl with Curious Hair
0075.David Foster Wallace@Good Old Neon
0776.David Foster Wallace@The Depressed Person
0958.David Means@The Secret Goldfish
0770.Donald Barthelme@The Dead Father
0954.Donald Barthelme@The School
1035.Doris Lessing@To Room Nineteen
0009.Douglas Adams@A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
0351.E.B.White@The Door
0047.E.L.Doctorow@Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden
0517.E.L.Doctorow@Edgemont Drive
0588.E.L.Doctorow@Jolene: A Life
0889.E.L.Doctorow@The March
1054.E.L.Doctorow@Wakefield
1074.E.L.Doctorow@Why We’re Patriots
1077.E.L.Doctorow@Willi
0372.E.M.Forster@The Other Side of the Hedge
0333.Edgar Allan Poe@Masque of the Red Death
0738.Edgar Allan Poe@The Black Cat
0753.Edgar Allan Poe@The Cask of Amontillado
0803.Edgar Allan Poe@The Fall of the House of Usher
0352.Edgar Allan Poe@The Fall of the House of Usher
0891.Edgar Allan Poe@The Masque of the Red Death
0892.Edgar Allan Poe@The Masque of the Red Death
0215.Edgar Allan Poe@The Murders in the Rue Morgue
0228.Edgar Allan Poe@The Pit & the Pendulum
0927.Edgar Allan Poe@The Pit & the Pendulum
0934.Edgar Allan Poe@The Purloined Letter
0258.Edgar Allan Poe@The Tell-Tale Heart
0983.Edgar Allan Poe@The Tell-Tale Heart
0504.Edith Wharton@Criticism
0121.Edith Wharton@Roman Fever
0783.Edith Wharton@The Dilettante
0802.Edith Wharton@The Eyes
0858.Edith Wharton@The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
0900.Edith Wharton@The Mission of Jane
0920.Edith Wharton@The Other Two
0926.Edith Wharton@The Pelican
0962.Edith Wharton@The Seed of the Faith
0400.Ernest Hemingway@A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
0005.Ernest Hemingway@A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
0401.Ernest Hemingway@A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
0300.Ernest Hemingway@A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
0001.Ernest Hemingway@A Day’s Wait
0007.Ernest Hemingway@A Day’s Wait
0405.Ernest Hemingway@A Day’s Wait
0415.Ernest Hemingway@A Natural History of the Dead
0424.Ernest Hemingway@A Very Short Story
0427.Ernest Hemingway@A Way You’ll Never Be
0036.Ernest Hemingway@Big Two-Hearted River
0467.Ernest Hemingway@Big Two-Hearted River
0468.Ernest Hemingway@Big Two-Hearted River (Part 1)
0488.Ernest Hemingway@Cat in the Rain
0492.Ernest Hemingway@Che ti dice la patria?
0054.Ernest Hemingway@Cross Country Snow
0530.Ernest Hemingway@Fathers & Sons
0533.Ernest Hemingway@Fifty Grand
0547.Ernest Hemingway@God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
0081.Ernest Hemingway@Hills Like White Elephants
0566.Ernest Hemingway@Hills Like White Elephants
0084.Ernest Hemingway@In Another Country
0577.Ernest Hemingway@In Another Country
0086.Ernest Hemingway@Indian Camp
0580.Ernest Hemingway@Indian Camp
0102.Ernest Hemingway@Mr.and Mrs.Elliot
0105.Ernest Hemingway@My Old Man
0630.Ernest Hemingway@My Old Man
0636.Ernest Hemingway@Now I Lay Me
0106.Ernest Hemingway@Old Man at the Bridge
0642.Ernest Hemingway@Old Man at the Bridge
0109.Ernest Hemingway@Out of Season
0700.Ernest Hemingway@Soldier’s Home
0701.Ernest Hemingway@Soldier’s Home
0341.Ernest Hemingway@Soldier’s home
0711.Ernest Hemingway@Summer People
0346.Ernest Hemingway@The Capital of the World
0752.Ernest Hemingway@The Capital of the World
0164.Ernest Hemingway@The Doctor & the Doctor’s Wife
0784.Ernest Hemingway@The Doctor & the Doctor’s Wife
0794.Ernest Hemingway@The End of Something
0815.Ernest Hemingway@The Gambler, the Nun, & the Radio
0191.Ernest Hemingway@The Killers
0849.Ernest Hemingway@The Killers
0200.Ernest Hemingway@The Light of the World
0873.Ernest Hemingway@The Light of the World
0906.Ernest Hemingway@The Mother of a Queen
0240.Ernest Hemingway@The Sea Change
0956.Ernest Hemingway@The Sea Change
0245.Ernest Hemingway@The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
0382.Ernest Hemingway@The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
0965.Ernest Hemingway@The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
0247.Ernest Hemingway@The Snows of Kilimanjaro
0384.Ernest Hemingway@The Snows of Kilimanjaro
0970.Ernest Hemingway@The Snows of Kilimanjaro
0989.Ernest Hemingway@The Three-Day Blow
0995.Ernest Hemingway@The Undefeated
1028.Ernest Hemingway@The Three-Day Blow
1037.Ernest Hemingway@Today is Friday
0289.Ernest Hemingway@Up in Michigan
1049.Ernest Hemingway@Up in Michigan
1078.Ernest Hemingway@Wine of Wyoming
0414.Eudora Welty@A Memory
0020.Eudora Welty@A Visit of Charity
0425.Eudora Welty@A Visit of Charity
0022.Eudora Welty@A Worn Path
0428.Eudora Welty@A Worn Path
0454.Eudora Welty@Asphodel
0050.Eudora Welty@Clytie
0497.Eudora Welty@Clytie
0057.Eudora Welty@Death of a Traveling Salesman
0508.Eudora Welty@Death of a Traveling Salesman
0593.Eudora Welty@Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden
0092.Eudora Welty@Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden
0604.Eudora Welty@Livvie
0621.Eudora Welty@Moon Lake
0659.Eudora Welty@Petrified Man
0116.Eudora Welty@Powerhouse
0670.Eudora Welty@Powerhouse
0357.Eudora Welty@The Hitch-Hikers
0834.Eudora Welty@The Hitch-Hikers
0190.Eudora Welty@The Key
0848.Eudora Welty@The Key
0257.Eudora Welty@The Tall Tale of the Willy Nilly
0269.Eudora Welty@The Whistle
1006.Eudora Welty@The Whistle
0270.Eudora Welty@The Wide Net
0274.Eudora Welty@The Worn Path
1073.Eudora Welty@Why I Live at the P.O.
0394.Eudora Welty@Why I Live at the P.O.
0464.F.Scott Fitzgerald@Bernice Bobs Her Hair
0348.F.Scott Fitzgerald@The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
0765.F.Scott Fitzgerald@The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
0781.F.Scott Fitzgerald@The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
1080.F.Scott Fitzgerald@Winter Dreams
0004.Flannery O’Connor@A Circle in the Fire
0008.Flannery O’Connor@A Good Man Is Hard to Find
0302.Flannery O’Connor@A Good Man Is Hard to Find
0409.Flannery O’Connor@A Good Man Is Hard to Find
0011.Flannery O’Connor@A Late Encounter with the Enemy
0068.Flannery O’Connor@Everything That Rises Must Converge
0526.Flannery O’Connor@Everything That Rises Must Converge
0074.Flannery O’Connor@Good Country People
0550.Flannery O’Connor@Good Country People
0091.Flannery O’Connor@Judgement Day
0591.Flannery O’Connor@Judgement Day
0112.Flannery O’Connor@Parker’s Back
0653.Flannery O’Connor@Parker’s Back
0119.Flannery O’Connor@Revelation
0680.Flannery O’Connor@Revelation
0151.Flannery O’Connor@The Comforts of Home
0154.Flannery O’Connor@The Crop
0163.Flannery O’Connor@The Displaced Person
0169.Flannery O’Connor@The Enduring Chill
0179.Flannery O’Connor@The Geranium
0194.Flannery O’Connor@The Lame Shall Enter First
0199.Flannery O’Connor@The Life You Save May Be Your Own
0872.Flannery O’Connor@The Life You Save May Be Your Own
0226.Flannery O’Connor@The Partridge Festival
0263.Flannery O’Connor@The Turkey
1050.Francis King@Uprooted=
0535.Frank O’Connor@First Confession
0556.Frank O’Connor@Guests of the Nation
0579.Frank O’Connor@In the Train
0104.Frank O’Connor@My Oedipus Complex
0658.Frank O’Connor@Peasants
0787.Frank O’Connor@The Drunkard
0881.Frank O’Connor@The Mad Lomasneys
0193.Frank R.Stockton@The Lady, or the Tiger?
0859.Frank R.Stockton@The Lady, or the Tiger?
0854.Frank R.Stockton@The Lady, or the Tiger?
0010.Franz Kafka@A Hunger Artist
0303.Franz Kafka@A Hunger Artist
0210.Franz Kafka@The Metamorphosis
0139.G.K.Chesterton@The Blue Cross
0741.G.K.Chesterton@The Blue Cross
0800.G.K.Chesterton@The Eye of Apollo
0837.G.K.Chesterton@The House of the Dead Hand
0935.G.K.Chesterton@The Queer Feet
0936.G.K.Chesterton@The Queer Feet
0949.G.K.Chesterton@The Ring of Thor
0994.G.K.Chesterton@The Trees of Pride
0387.Gabriel García Márquez@A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
0019.Gabriel García Márquez@A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
0423.Gabriel García Márquez@A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
0460.Gabriel García Márquez@Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon
0056.Gabriel García Márquez@Death Constant Beyond Love
0528.Gabriel García Márquez@Eyes of a Blue Dog
0601.Gabriel García Márquez@Light is Like Water
0107.Gabriel García Márquez@One of These Days
0645.Gabriel García Márquez@One of These Days
1023.Gabriel García Márquez@There Are No Thieves in This Town
0286.Gabriel García Márquez@Tuesday Siesta
1043.Gabriel García Márquez@Tuesday Siesta
0634.George Orwell@1984 (novel but famous extract)
0431.Graham Greene@Across the Bridge
0483.Graham Greene@Butcher’s Embrace
0590.Graham Greene@Jubilee
0674.Graham Greene@Proof Positive
0727.Graham Greene@The Basement Room
0161.Graham Greene@The Destructors
0832.Graham Greene@The Heart of the Matter
0833.Graham Greene@The Hint of an Explanation
0844.Graham Greene@The Invisible Japanese Gentleman
1047.Graham Greene@Under the Garden
0353.Guy De Maupassant@The False Gems
0216.Guy de Maupassant@The Necklace
0369.Guy de Maupassant@The Necklace
0478.Gwendolyn Brooks@Boy Breaking Glass
0963.Gwendolyn Brooks@The Sermon on the Warpland
1059.Gwendolyn Brooks@We Real Cool
0364.H.G.Wells@The Magic Shop
0233.H.P.Lovecraft@The Rats in the Walls
0345.H.P.Lovecraft@The Call of Cthullhu
0224.H.P.Lovecraft@The Outsider
0379.Ha Jin@The Russian Prioner
0572.Harlan Ellison@I Have No Mouth, & I Must Scream
0032.Haruki Murakami@Barn Burning
0037.Haruki Murakami@Birthday Girl
0573.Haruki Murakami@The Ice Man
0094.Haruki Murakami@Landscape with Flatiron
0643.Haruki Murakami@On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
0698.Haruki Murakami@Sleep
0957.Haruki Murakami@The Second Bakery Attack
0375.Henry James@The Real Thing
0002.Herman Melville@Bartleby, the Scrivener
0033.Herman Melville@Bartleby, the Scrivener
0462.Herman Melville@Bartleby, the Scrivener
0306.Honore de Balzac@A Passion in the Desert
0519.Hurd Hatfield@Eight O’Clock
0441.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Alone
0073.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Gimpel the Fool
0589.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Joy
0664.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Pigeons
0694.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Short Friday
0777.Isaac Bashevis Singer@The Destruction of Kreshev
0862.Isaac Bashevis Singer@The Last Demon
0870.Isaac Bashevis Singer@The Letter Writer
0969.Isaac Bashevis Singer@The Slaughterer
0973.Isaac Bashevis Singer@The Spinoza of Market Street
1083.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
1084.Isaac Bashevis Singer@Zlateh the Goat
0330.Issac Asimov@I, Robot
0015.J.D.Salinger@A Perfect Day for Bananafish
0417.J.D.Salinger@A Perfect Day for Bananafish
0505.J.D.Salinger@De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period
0514.J.D.Salinger@Down at the Dinghy
0071.J.D.Salinger@For Esmé – with Love & Squalor
0592.J.D.Salinger@Just Before the War with the Eskimos
0672.J.D.Salinger@Pretty Mouth & Green My Eyes
0751.Jack London@The Call of the Wild (excerpt)
0608.Jack London@Love of Life
0252.Jack London@The Story of an Eyewitness
0282.Jack London@To Build a Fire
0390.Jack London@To Build a Fire
1034.Jack London@To Build a Fire
0471.Jamaica Kincaid@Blackness
0546.Jamaica Kincaid@Girl
0611.Jamaica Kincaid@Man & Superman
1079.Jamaica Kincaid@Wingless
0548.James Baldwin@Going to Meet the Man (excerpt from novel)
0673.James Baldwin@Previous Condition
0128.James Baldwin@Sonny’s Blues
0703.James Baldwin@Sonny’s Blues
0238.James Hurst@The Scarlet Ibis
0402.James Joyce@A Country Road.A Tree
0012.James Joyce@A Little Cloud
0413.James Joyce@A Little Cloud
0014.James Joyce@A Painful Case
0416.James Joyce@A Painful Case
0024.James Joyce@After the Race
0433.James Joyce@After the Race
0025.James Joyce@An Encounter
0444.James Joyce@An Encounter
0030.James Joyce@Araby
0311.James Joyce@Araby
0451.James Joyce@Araby
0049.James Joyce@Clay
0496.James Joyce@Clay
0052.James Joyce@Counterparts
0502.James Joyce@Counterparts
0788.James Joyce@Dubliners (short story collection)
0321.James Joyce@Dubliners
0065.James Joyce@Eveline
0524.James Joyce@Eveline
0553.James Joyce@Grace
0089.James Joyce@Ivy Day in the Committee Room
0585.James Joyce@Ivy Day in the Committee Room
0140.James Joyce@The Boarding House
0745.James Joyce@The Boarding House
0159.James Joyce@The Dead
0772.James Joyce@The Dead
0383.James Joyce@The Sisters
0967.James Joyce@The Sisters
1044.James Joyce@Two Gallants
0534.James Thurber@File & Forget
0729.James Thurber@The Bear Who Let It Alone
0144.James Thurber@The Cane in the Corridor
0146.James Thurber@The Catbird Seat
0754.James Thurber@The Catbird Seat
0182.James Thurber@The Greatest Man in the World
0863.James Thurber@The Last Flower
0880.James Thurber@The Macbeth Murder Mystery
0911.James Thurber@The Night the Bed Fell
0218.James Thurber@The Night the Ghost Got In
0930.James Thurber@The Princess & the Tin Box
0937.James Thurber@The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble
0241.James Thurber@The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
0380.James Thurber@The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
0959.James Thurber@The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
0990.James Thurber@The Tiger Who Understood People
0265.James Thurber@The Unicorn in the Garden
1007.James Thurber@The White Deer
0336.J.D.Salinger@Nine Stories
0018.Jhumpa Lahiri@A Temporary Matter
0421.Jhumpa Lahiri@A Temporary Matter
0437.Jhumpa Lahiri@All Souls
0563.Jhumpa Lahiri@Hell-Heaven
0087.Jhumpa Lahiri@Interpreter of Maladies
0583.Jhumpa Lahiri@Interpreter of Maladies
0628.Jhumpa Lahiri@Mrs.Sen’s
0692.Jhumpa Lahiri@Sexy
0986.Jhumpa Lahiri@The Third & Final Continent
0993.Jhumpa Lahiri@The Treatment of Bibi Haldar
1026.Jhumpa Lahiri@This Blessed House
0443.John Cheever@An Educated American Woman
0495.John Cheever@Clancy in the Tower of Babel
0551.John Cheever@Goodbye, My Brother
0678.John Cheever@Reunion
0722.John Cheever@The Angel of the Bridge
0746.John Cheever@The Branch Line
0761.John Cheever@The Country Husband
0764.John Cheever@The Cure
0775.John Cheever@The Death of Justina
0797.John Cheever@The Enormous Radio
0806.John Cheever@The Five-Forty-Eight
0818.John Cheever@The Geometry of Love
0838.John Cheever@The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
0909.John Cheever@The National Pastime
0256.John Cheever@The Swimmer
0385.John Cheever@The Swimmer
0982.John Cheever@The Swimmer
1014.John Cheever@The World of Apples
1016.John Cheever@The Wrysons
1040.John Cheever@Torch Song
0924.John Steinbeck@The Pearl (excerpt)
0149.John Steinbeck@The Chrysanthemums
0299.John Updike@A & P
0657.John Updike@Pavilion
0663.John Updike@Pigeon Feathers
0410.Jorge Luis Borges@A History of Eternity
0021.Jorge Luis Borges@A Weary Man’s Utopia
0429.Jorge Luis Borges@Abenjacán el Bojarí, Dead in His Labyrinth
0031.Jorge Luis Borges@Averroes’ Search
0458.Jorge Luis Borges@Averroes’ Search
0466.Jorge Luis Borges@Biathanatos
0039.Jorge Luis Borges@Blue Tigers
0313.Jorge Luis Borges@Borges & I
0055.Jorge Luis Borges@Death & the Compass
0507.Jorge Luis Borges@Death & the Compass
0058.Jorge Luis Borges@Delia Elena San Marco
0060.Jorge Luis Borges@Deutsches Requiem
0511.Jorge Luis Borges@Deutsches Requiem
0064.Jorge Luis Borges@Emma Zunz
0521.Jorge Luis Borges@Emma Zunz
0525.Jorge Luis Borges@Everything & Nothing
0540.Jorge Luis Borges@Funes the Memorious
0541.Jorge Luis Borges@Funes, His Memory
0542.Jorge Luis Borges@Funes, the Memorious
0110.Jorge Luis Borges@Parable of Cervantes & the Quixote
0650.Jorge Luis Borges@Parable of the Palace
0662.Jorge Luis Borges@Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote
0114.Jorge Luis Borges@Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
0125.Jorge Luis Borges@Shakespeare’s Memory
0710.Jorge Luis Borges@Story of the Warrior & the Captive
0129.Jorge Luis Borges@The Aleph
0719.Jorge Luis Borges@The Aleph
0723.Jorge Luis Borges@The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
0132.Jorge Luis Borges@The Babylon Lottery
0726.Jorge Luis Borges@The Babylon Lottery
0141.Jorge Luis Borges@The Bribe
0145.Jorge Luis Borges@The Captive
0755.Jorge Luis Borges@The Chamber of Statues
0150.Jorge Luis Borges@The Circular Ruins
0756.Jorge Luis Borges@The Circular Ruins
0759.Jorge Luis Borges@The Congress
0771.Jorge Luis Borges@The Dead Man
0793.Jorge Luis Borges@The Encounter
0168.Jorge Luis Borges@The End
0795.Jorge Luis Borges@The End
0177.Jorge Luis Borges@The Garden of Forking Paths
0816.Jorge Luis Borges@The Garden of Forking Paths
0823.Jorge Luis Borges@The Golem
0836.Jorge Luis Borges@The House of Asterion
0187.Jorge Luis Borges@The Immortal
0841.Jorge Luis Borges@The Immortal
0843.Jorge Luis Borges@The Intruder
0198.Jorge Luis Borges@The Library of Babel
0871.Jorge Luis Borges@The Library of Babel
0202.Jorge Luis Borges@The Lottery in Babylon
0878.Jorge Luis Borges@The Lottery in Babylon
0893.Jorge Luis Borges@The Meeting
0897.Jorge Luis Borges@The Mirror of Ink
0921.Jorge Luis Borges@The Other
0223.Jorge Luis Borges@The Other Death
0928.Jorge Luis Borges@The Plot
0242.Jorge Luis Borges@The Secret Miracle
0961.Jorge Luis Borges@The Sect of the Phoenix
0964.Jorge Luis Borges@The Shape of the Sword
0248.Jorge Luis Borges@The South
0972.Jorge Luis Borges@The South
0976.Jorge Luis Borges@The Story of the Drowning Men
0259.Jorge Luis Borges@The Theme of the Traitor & the Hero
0984.Jorge Luis Borges@The Theologians
1003.Jorge Luis Borges@The Wait
1012.Jorge Luis Borges@The Witness
0275.Jorge Luis Borges@The Writing of the God
0277.Jorge Luis Borges@The Zahir
1019.Jorge Luis Borges@The Zahir
1022.Jorge Luis Borges@Theme of the Traitor & the Hero
0279.Jorge Luis Borges@Three Versions of Judas
1030.Jorge Luis Borges@Three Versions of Judas
0281.Jorge Luis Borges@Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius
1032.Jorge Luis Borges@Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius
1033.Jorge Luis Borges@Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius
1065.Jorge Luis Borges@When Fiction Lives in Fiction
0561.Joseph Conrad (novella but famous excerpt)@Heart of Darkness
0381.Joseph Conrad@The Secret Sharer
0391.Joyce Carol Oates@Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
0392.Joyce Carol Oates@Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
1066.Joyce Carol Oates@Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
0354.Jules Verne@The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc
0459.Julio Cortazar@Axolotl
0474.Julio Cortazar@Blow-Up
0051.Julio Cortazar@Continuity of Parks
0554.Julio Cortazar@Graffiti
0568.Julio Cortazar@House Taken Over
0599.Julio Cortazar@Letter to a Young Lady in Paris
0850.Julio Cortazar@The Kings
0960.Julio Cortazar@The Secret Weapons
1058.Julio Cortazar@We Love Glenda So Much
0370.Julio Cortazar@The ight Face-Up
0457.Junot Diaz@Aurora
0518.Junot Diaz@Edison, New Jersey
0536.Junot Diaz@Flaca
0327.Junot Diaz@How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)
0619.Junot Diaz@Miss Lora
0647.Junot Diaz@Otravida, Otravez
0479.Junot Daz@Boyfriend
0501.Junot Diaz@Consuelo’s Kiss
0515.Junot Diaz@Drown
0397.Junot Diaz@Ysrael
0305.Kate Chopin@A Pair of Silk Stockings
0322.Kate Chopin@Désiree’s Baby
0059.Kate Chopin@Désiree’s Baby
0510.Kate Chopin@Désiree’s Baby
0251.Kate Chopin@The Storm
0974.Kate Chopin@The Storm
0253.Kate Chopin@The Story of an Hour
0975.Kate Chopin@The Story of an Hour
0537.Katherine Anne Porter@Flowering Judas
0825.Katherine Anne Porter@The Grave
0188.Katherine Anne Porter@The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
0847.Katherine Anne Porter@The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1021.Katherine Anne Porter@Theft
0403.Katherine Mansfield@A Cup of Tea
0446.Katherine Mansfield@An Ideal Family
0448.Katherine Mansfield@An Indiscreet Journey
0455.Katherine Mansfield@At the Bay
0472.Katherine Mansfield@Bliss
0564.Katherine Mansfield@Her First Ball
0600.Katherine Mansfield@Life of Ma Parker
0614.Katherine Mansfield@Marriage à la Mode
0101.Katherine Mansfield@Miss Brill
0618.Katherine Mansfield@Miss Brill
0625.Katherine Mansfield@Mr.and Mrs.Dove
0624.Katherine Mansfield@Mr.Reginald Peacock’s Day
0626.Katherine Mansfield@Mr.Reginald Peacock’s Day
0661.Katherine Mansfield@Pictures
0671.Katherine Mansfield@Prelude
0675.Katherine Mansfield@Psychology
0679.Katherine Mansfield@Revelations
0696.Katherine Mansfield@Six Years After
0712.Katherine Mansfield@Sun & Moon
0158.Katherine Mansfield@The Daughters of the Late Colonel
0769.Katherine Mansfield@The Daughters of the Late Colonel
0165.Katherine Mansfield@The Doll’s House
0786.Katherine Mansfield@The Doll’s House
0798.Katherine Mansfield@The Escape
0809.Katherine Mansfield@The Fly
0178.Katherine Mansfield@The Garden Party
0355.Katherine Mansfield@The Garden Party
0817.Katherine Mansfield@The Garden Party
0875.Katherine Mansfield@The Little Governess
0966.Katherine Mansfield@The Singing Lesson
0978.Katherine Mansfield@The Stranger
0268.Katherine Mansfield@The Voyage
1002.Katherine Mansfield@The Voyage
1011.Katherine Mansfield@The Wind Blows
1018.Katherine Mansfield@The Young Girl
0023.Kay Boyle@Abraham
0509.Kay Boyle@Defeat
0095.Kay Boyle@Life Being the Best
0622.Kay Boyle@Moonlight
0725.Kay Boyle@The Astrakhan Cloak
1009.Kay Boyle@The White Horses of Vienna
0923.Ken Liu@The Paper Menagerie
1039.Kristen Roupenian@Too Cute
0325.Kurt Vonnegut@Harrison Bergeron
0003.Kurt Vonnegut@2BR02B
0398.Kurt Vonnegut@2BR02B
0522.Kurt Vonnegut@EPICAC
0079.Kurt Vonnegut@Harrison Bergeron
0559.Kurt Vonnegut@Harrison Bergeron
0810.Kurt Vonnegut@The Foster Portfolio
0294.Kurt Vonnegut@Who Am I This Time?
0598.Langston Hughes@Lenox Avenue: Midnight
0666.Langston Hughes@Poor Little Black Fellow
0688.Langston Hughes@Salvation
1071.Langston Hughes@Who’s Passing for Who?
0476.Lasana Sekou@Bonded
0326.Leo Tolstoy@How Much Land Does a Man Need?
0570.Leo Tolstoy@How Much Land Does a Man Need?
0349.Leo Tolstoy@The Death of Ivan Ilych
0602.Lesley Nneka Arimah@Light
0814.Lesley Nneka Arimah@The Future Looks Good
1062.Lesley Nneka Arimah@What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
1069.Lesley Nneka Arimah@Who Will Greet You at Home
0000. Let me know if you would like me to suggest 50 more famous short stories!00331
0082.Lorrie Moore@How to Become a Writer
0335.Louisa M.Alcott@My Red Cap
0709.Louise Glück@Still Life
0951.Lucy Maud Montgomery@The Round Road
0903.Lucy Sussex@The Monster in the Bride’s Chamber
0558.Margaret Atwood@Happy Endings
0668.Margaret Atwood@Possum Song
0340.Margaret Atwood@Rape Fantasies
0407.Mark Twain@A Dog’s Tale
0523.Mark Twain@Eve’s Diary
0717.Mark Twain@The $30,000 Bequest
1020.Mark Twain@The £1,000,000 Bank Note
0148.Mark Twain@The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
0347.Mark Twain@The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
0782.Mark Twain@The Diary of Adam & Eve
0172.Mark Twain@The Five Boons of Life
0463.Mary Beckett@Belfast Woman
0500.Mary Gaitskill@Connection
0681.Mary Gaitskill@Revenge of the Redheaded Kid
0684.Mary Gaitskill@Romantic Weekend
0702.Mary Gaitskill@Something Nice
0724.Mary Gaitskill@The Arms & Legs of the Lake
0821.Mary Gaitskill@The Girl on the Plane
0919.Mary Gaitskill@The Other Place
1015.Mary Gaitskill@The Wrong Thing
1031.Mary Gaitskill@Tiny Smiling Daddy
0280.Mary Gaitskill@Tiny, Smiling Daddy
0631.Ernest Hemingway@My Old Man
0062.Nathaniel Hawthorne@Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment
0118.Nathaniel Hawthorne@Rappaccini’s Daughter
0130.Nathaniel Hawthorne@The Ambitious Guest
0138.Nathaniel Hawthorne@The Birthmark
0736.Nathaniel Hawthorne@The Birthmark
0212.Nathaniel Hawthorne@The Minister’s Black Veil
0896.Nathaniel Hawthorne@The Minister’s Black Veil
0298.Nathaniel Hawthorne@Young Goodman Brown
0396.Nathaniel Hawthorne@Young Goodman Brown
0225.Nikolai Gogol@The Overcoat
0637.O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories” (multiple stories)
0434.O.Henry@After Twenty Years
0562.O.Henry@Hearts & Hands
0760.O.Henry@The Cop & the Anthem
0813.O.Henry@The Furnished Room
0180.O.Henry@The Gift of the Magi
0356.O.Henry@The Gift of the Magi
0819.O.Henry@The Gift of the Magi
0196.O.Henry@The Last Leaf
0360.O.Henry@The Last Leaf
0864.O.Henry@The Last Leaf
0232.O.Henry@The Ransom of Red Chief
0938.O.Henry@The Ransom of Red Chief
0968.O.Henry@The Skylight Room
0399.Obotunde Ijimere@A Beautiful Talisman
0595.Octavia Butler@Kindred (Excerpt)
0473.Octavia Butler@Bloodchild
0581.Octavia Butler@Infection
0705.Octavia Butler@Speech Sounds
0799.Octavia Butler@The Evening & the Morning & the Night
0243.Octavia Butler@The Seed of McCoy
0184.Oscar Wilde@The Happy Prince
0219.Oscar Wilde@The Nightingale & the Rose
0234.Oscar Wilde@The Remarkable Rocket
0244.Oscar Wilde@The Selfish Giant
0250.Oscar Wilde@The Sphinx Without a Secret
0649.Jorge Luis Borges@Parable of the Arrow
0034.Ralph Ellison@Battle Royal
0538.Ralph Ellison@Flying Home
0596.Ralph Ellison@King of the Bingo Game
0743.Ralph Ellison@The Blues I’m Playing
0206.Ralph Ellison@The Man Who Lived Underground
0186.Ray Bradbury (frame story + multiple stories)@The Illustrated Man
0017.Ray Bradbury@A Sound of Thunder
0420.Ray Bradbury@A Sound of Thunder
0308.Ray Bradbury@A Sound of Thunder
0438.Ray Bradbury@All Summer in a Day
0028.Ray Bradbury@And the Rock Cried Out
0456.Ray Bradbury@August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains
0083.Ray Bradbury@I Sing the Body Electric
0090.Ray Bradbury@Jack-in-the-Box
0131.Ray Bradbury@The April Witch
0155.Ray Bradbury@The Crowd
0766.Ray Bradbury@The Custodian
0166.Ray Bradbury@The Dragon
0167.Ray Bradbury@The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
0174.Ray Bradbury@The Flying Machine
0808.Ray Bradbury@The Flying Machine
0175.Ray Bradbury@The Fog Horn
0176.Ray Bradbury@The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
0812.Ray Bradbury@The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
0358.Ray Bradbury@The Lady & the Tiger
0227.Ray Bradbury@The Pedestrian
0925.Ray Bradbury@The Pedestrian
0239.Ray Bradbury@The Scythe
0246.Ray Bradbury@The Small Assassin
0266.Ray Bradbury@The Veldt
0998.Ray Bradbury@The Veldt
0271.Ray Bradbury@The Wilderness
0272.Ray Bradbury@The Wind
0278.Ray Bradbury@There Was an Old Woman
0388.Ray Bradbury@There Will Come Soft Rains
1025.Ray Bradbury@There Will Come Soft Rains
0284.Ray Bradbury@Touched with Fire
0287.Ray Bradbury@Uncle Einar
0393.Raymond Carver@Why Don’t You Dance (Film)
0419.Raymond Carver@A Small, Good Thing
0452.Raymond Carver@Are These Actual Miles?
0470.Raymond Carver@Blackbird Pie
0477.Raymond Carver@Boxes
0043.Raymond Carver@Careful
0485.Raymond Carver@Careful
0044.Raymond Carver@Cathedral
0316.Raymond Carver@Cathedral
0489.Raymond Carver@Cathedral
0498.Raymond Carver@Collectors
0061.Raymond Carver@Distance
0520.Raymond Carver@Elephant
0067.Raymond Carver@Everything Stuck to Him
0069.Raymond Carver@Fat
0531.Raymond Carver@Fat
0532.Raymond Carver@Feathers
0070.Raymond Carver@Fever
0543.Raymond Carver@Gazebo
0088.Raymond Carver@Intimacy
0584.Raymond Carver@Intimacy
0616.Raymond Carver@Menudo
0103.Raymond Carver@Mr.Coffee & Mr.Fixit
0633.Raymond Carver@Night School
0635.Raymond Carver@Nobody Said Anything
0115.Raymond Carver@Popular Mechanics
0667.Raymond Carver@Popular Mechanics
0117.Raymond Carver@Put Yourself in My Shoes
0676.Raymond Carver@Put Yourself in My Shoes
0127.Raymond Carver@Sixty Acres
0697.Raymond Carver@Sixty Acres
0699.Raymond Carver@So Much Water So Close to Home
0728.Raymond Carver@The Bath
0748.Raymond Carver@The Bridle
0143.Raymond Carver@The Cabin
0147.Raymond Carver@The Cathedral
0758.Raymond Carver@The Compartment
0790.Raymond Carver@The Ducks
0170.Raymond Carver@The Father
0804.Raymond Carver@The Father
0839.Raymond Carver@The Idea
0876.Raymond Carver@The Little Things
0254.Raymond Carver@The Student’s Wife
0979.Raymond Carver@The Student’s Wife
0992.Raymond Carver@The Train
0290.Raymond Carver@Vandals
1052.Raymond Carver@Viewfinder
1053.Raymond Carver@Vitamins
1055.Raymond Carver@Want to See Something?
0292.Raymond Carver@What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
1063.Raymond Carver@What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
1064.Raymond Carver@What’s in Alaska?
0293.Raymond Carver@Where I’m Calling From
1067.Raymond Carver@Where I’m Calling From
1070.Raymond Carver@Whoever Was Using This Bed
1072.Raymond Carver@Why Don’t You Dance?
1075.Raymond Carver@Why, Honey?
0295.Raymond Carver@Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
0395.Raymond Carver@Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
1076.Raymond Carver@Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
0368.Richard Connell@The Most Dangerous Game
0905.Richard Connell@The Most Dangerous Game
0660.Richard Rorty@Philosophy & the Mirror of Nature
0440.Richard Wright@Almos’ a Man
0481.Richard Wright@Bright & Morning Star
0887.Richard Wright@The Man Who Was Almost a Man
0078.Ring Lardner@Haircut
0324.Ring Lardner@Haircut
0683.Roald Dahl@Collected Stories (multiple famous stories)
0035.Roald Dahl@Beware of the Dog
0544.Roald Dahl@Genesis & Catastrophe: A True Story
0597.Roald Dahl@Lamb to the Slaughter
0612.Roald Dahl@Man from the South
0627.Roald Dahl@Mrs Bixby & the Colonel’s Coat
0654.Roald Dahl@Parson’s Pleasure
0195.Roald Dahl@The Landlady
0860.Roald Dahl@The Landlady
1005.Roald Dahl@The Way Up to Heaven
0820.Robert Frost@The Gift Outright (poem)
0344.Robert Louis Stevenson@The Bottle Imp
0575.Rudyard Kipling@If— (poem)
0152.Rudyard Kipling@The Courting of Dinah Shadd
0207.Rudyard Kipling@The Man Who Would Be King
0365.Rudyard Kipling@The Man Who Would be King
0708.Saki@Sredni Vashtar
0842.Saki@The Interlopers
0917.Saki@The Open Window
0977.Saki@The Storyteller
1036.Saki@Tobermory
1008.Sarah Orne Jewett@The White Heron
0373.Sherwood Anderson@The Other Woman
0435.Shirley Jackson@After You, My Dear Alphonse
0045.Shirley Jackson@Charles
0491.Shirley Jackson@Charles
0499.Shirley Jackson@Come Dance With Me in Ireland
0096.Shirley Jackson@Like Mother Used to Make
0603.Shirley Jackson@Like Mother Used to Make
0607.Shirley Jackson@Louisa, Please Come Home
0108.Shirley Jackson@One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
0646.Shirley Jackson@One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
0111.Shirley Jackson@Paranoia
0651.Shirley Jackson@Paranoia
0665.Shirley Jackson@Pillar of Salt
0124.Shirley Jackson@Seven Types of Ambiguity
0134.Shirley Jackson@The Beautiful Stranger
0732.Shirley Jackson@The Beautiful Stranger
0156.Shirley Jackson@The Daemon Lover
0767.Shirley Jackson@The Daemon Lover
0830.Shirley Jackson@The Haunting of Hill House (excerpt)
0185.Shirley Jackson@The Honeymoon of Mrs.Smith
0203.Shirley Jackson@The Lottery
0363.Shirley Jackson@The Lottery
0879.Shirley Jackson@The Lottery
0205.Shirley Jackson@The Man in the Woods
0213.Shirley Jackson@The Missing Girl
0220.Shirley Jackson@The Omen
0229.Shirley Jackson@The Possibility of Evil
0929.Shirley Jackson@The Possibility of Evil
0235.Shirley Jackson@The Renegade
0945.Shirley Jackson@The Renegade
0255.Shirley Jackson@The Summer People
0261.Shirley Jackson@The Tooth
0991.Shirley Jackson@The Tooth
0267.Shirley Jackson@The Villagers
1000.Shirley Jackson@The Villagers
0273.Shirley Jackson@The Witch
1057.Shirley Jackson@We Have Always Lived in the Castle
0706.Simon Rich@Spoiled Brats
0208.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Man with the Twisted Lip
0249.Arthur Conan Doyle@The Speckled Band
0999.Stephen Crane@The Veteran
0177 W.W.Jacobs@The Monkey’s Paw
0006.Stephen Crane@A Dark Brown Dog
0404.Stephen Crane@A Dark Brown Dog
0013.Stephen Crane@A Mystery of Heroism
0026.Stephen Crane@An Episode of War
0445.Stephen Crane@An Experiment in Misery
0721.Stephen Crane@The Angel Child
0742.Stephen Crane@The Blue Hotel
0142.Stephen Crane@The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
0747.Stephen Crane@The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
0904.Stephen Crane@The Monster
0222.Stephen Crane@The Open Boat
0916.Stephen Crane@The Open Boat
0371.Stephen Crane@The Open Boat
0996.Stephen Crane@The Upturned Face
0439.Stephen King@All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
0609.Stephen King@Lunch at the Gotham Café
0632.Stephen King@N.
0715.Stephen King@That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
0733.Stephen King@The Beggar & the Diamond
0774.Stephen King@The Death of Jack Hamilton
0785.Stephen King@The Doctor’s Case
0886.Stephen King@The Man in the Black Suit
0217.Stephen King@The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
0939.Stephen King@The Reaper’s Image
0042.Stephen Vincent Benet@By the Waters of Babylon
0778.Stephen Vincent Benet@The Devil & Daniel Webster
0512.Stonewall Jackson@Do What You Can
0077.T.C.Boyle@Greasy Lake
0555.T.Coraghessan Boyle@Greasy Lake
0527.Ted Chiang@Exhalation
0894.Ted Chiang@The Merchant & the Alchemist’s Gate
0377.Tennessee Williams@The Resemblance Between a Vilin Case & a Coffin
0890.Virginia Woolf@The Mark on the Wall
0366.Edgar Allan Poe@The Masque Of the Red Death
0389.Thom Jones@The Pugilist at Rest
0329.Thom Jones@I Want to Live!
0317.Thomas Wolfe@Chickamauga
0328.Tillie Olsen@I Stand Here Ironing
0319.Tim Gautreaux@Died & Gone to Vegas
0571.Tim O’Brien@How to Tell a True War Story
0644.Tim O’Brien@On the Rainy River
0704.Tim O’Brien@Speaking of Courage
0877.Tim O’Brien@The Lives of the Dead
0260.Tim O’Brien@The Things They Carried
0985.Tim O’Brien@The Things They Carried
0315.Tobias Wolf@Bullett in the Brain
0041.Tobias Wolff@Bullet in the Brain
0482.Tobias Wolff@Bullet in the Brain
0578.Tobias Wolff@In the Garden of North American Martyrs
0669.Tobias Wolff@Powder
0123.Tobias Wolff@Say Yes
0690.Tobias Wolff@Say Yes
0898.Tobias Wolff@The Missing Person
0236.Tobias Wolff@The Rich Brother
0948.Tobias Wolff@The Rich Brother
0757.Tom Godwin@The Cold Equations
0475.Toni Cade Bambara@Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird
0677.Toni Cade Bambara@Raymond’s Run
0197.Toni Cade Bambara@The Lesson
0362.Toni Cade Bambara@The Lesson
0869.Toni Cade Bambara@The Lesson
1004.Toni Cade Bambara@The War of the Wall
0691.Ursula K.Le Guin@Schrödinger’s Cat
0845.Ursula K.Le Guin@The Island of the Immortals
0884.Ursula K.Le Guin@The Mainz Psalter
0221.Ursula K.Le Guin@The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
0915.Ursula K.Le Guin@The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
0952.Ursula K.Le Guin@The Rule of Names
0301.Victor Hugo@A FIGHT WITH A CANNON
0450.Virginia Woolf@An Unwritten Novel
0093.Virginia Woolf@Kew Gardens
0594.Virginia Woolf@Kew Gardens
0620.Virginia Woolf@Moments of Being: Slater’s Pins Have No Points
0789.Virginia Woolf@The Duchess & the Jeweler
0852.Virginia Woolf@The Lady in the Looking Glass
0866.Virginia Woolf@The Legacy
0209.Virginia Woolf@The Mark on the Wall
0214.W.W.Jacobs@The Monkey’s Paw
0367.W.W.Jacobs@THE Monkey’s Paw
0902.W.W.Jacobs@The Monkey’s Paw
0120.Washington Irving@Rip Van Winkle
0682.Washington Irving@Rip Van Winkle
0162.Washington Irving@The Devil & Tom Walker
0350.Washington Irving@The Devil & Tom Walker
0779.Washington Irving@The Devil & Tom Walker
0361.Washington Irving@The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
0867.Washington Irving@The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
0337.Willa Carther@Paul’s Case
0426.Willa Cather@A Wagner Matinee
0113.Willa Cather@Paul’s Case
0338.Willa Cather@Paul’s Case
0656.Willa Cather@Paul’s Case
0955.Willa Cather@The Sculptor’s Funeral
0386.William Carlos Williams@The Use of Force
0516.William Dean Howells@Each in His Own Tongue
0412.William Faulkner@A Justice
0016.William Faulkner@A Rose for Emily
0307.William Faulkner@A Rose for Emily
0432.William Faulkner@Ad Astra
0312.William Faulkner@Barn Burning
0461.William Faulkner@Barn Burning
0465.William Faulkner@Beyond
0484.William Faulkner@Carcassonne
0063.William Faulkner@Dry September
0549.William Faulkner@Golden Land
0567.William Faulkner@Honor
0586.William Faulkner@Jealousy
0605.William Faulkner@Lizard’s Leg
0629.William Faulkner@Mule in the Yard
0648.William Faulkner@Pantaloon in Black
0693.William Faulkner@Shingles for the Lord
0707.William Faulkner@Spotted Horses
0714.William Faulkner@That Evening Sun
0342.William Faulkner@That Evening Sun
0716.William Faulkner@That Will Be Fine
0730.William Faulkner@The Bear
0749.William Faulkner@The Brooch
0868.William Faulkner@The Leg
1024.William Faulkner@There Was a Queen
1038.William Faulkner@Tomorrow
1046.William Faulkner@Uncle Willy
1060.William Faulkner@Weekend Revisited
0655.Yukio Mishima@Patriotism
0713.Yukio Mishima@Swaddling Clothes
1029.Yukio Mishima@Three Million Yen