1000 Greatest Short Stories of All Time

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

1.  A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
2. “”Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
3. “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut
4. “A Circle in the Fire” by Flannery O’Connor
5. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
6. “A Dark-Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane
7. “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway
8. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
9. “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
10. “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
11. “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” by Flannery O’Connor
12. “A Little Cloud” by James Joyce
13. “A Mystery of Heroism“ by Stephen Crane
14. “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
15. “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger
16. “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
17. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
18. “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
19. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
20. “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
21. “A Weary Man’s Utopia” by Jorge Luis Borges
22. “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
23. “Abraham” by Kay Boyle
24. “After the Race” by James Joyce
25. “An Encounter” by James Joyce
26. “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane
27. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
28. “And the Rock Cried Out” by Ray Bradbury
29. “Angel Levine” by Bernard Malamud
30. “Araby” by James Joyce
31. “Averroes’ Search” by Jorge Luis Borges
32. “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami
33. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
34. “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison
35. “Beware of the Dog” by Roald Dahl
36. “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway
37. “Birthday Girl” by Haruki Murakami
38. “Bloodknot” by Athol Fugard
39. “Blue Tigers” by Jorge Luis Borges
40. “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
41. “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
42. “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet
43. “Careful” by Raymond Carver
44. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
45. “Charles” by Shirley Jackson
46. “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce
47. “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden” by E.L. Doctorow
48. “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
49. “Clay” by James Joyce
50. “Clytie” by Eudora Welty
51. “Continuity of Parks” by Julio Cortázar
52. “Counterparts” by James Joyce
53. “Court in the West Eighties” by Carson McCullers
54. “Cross Country Snow” by Ernest Hemingway
55. “Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges
56. “Death Constant Beyond Love” by Gabriel García Márquez
57. “Death of a Traveling Salesman” by Eudora Welty
58. “Delia Elena San Marco” by Jorge Luis Borges
59. “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
60. “Deutsches Requiem” by Jorge Luis Borges
61. “Distance” by Raymond Carver
62. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
63. “Dry September” by William Faulkner
64. “Emma Zunz” by Jorge Luis Borges
65. “Eveline” by James Joyce
66. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
67. “Everything Stuck to Him” by Raymond Carver
68. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
69. “Fat” by Raymond Carver
70. “Fever” by Raymond Carver
71. “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor” by J.D. Salinger
72. “Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
73. “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
74. “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
75. “Good Old Neon” by David Foster Wallace
76. “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov
77. “Greasy Lake” by T. C. Boyle
78. “Haircut” by Ring Lardner
79. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
80. “Here and There” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
81. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
82. “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore
83. “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury
84. “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
85. “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel
86. “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway
87. “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
88. “Intimacy” by Raymond Carver
89. “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce
90. “Jack-in-the-Box” by Ray Bradbury
91. “Judgement Day” by Flannery O’Connor
92. “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden” by Eudora Welty
93. “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf
94. “Landscape with Flatiron” by Haruki Murakami
95. “Life Being the Best” by Kay Boyle
96. “Like Mother Used to Make” by Shirley Jackson
97. “Like That” by Carson McCullers
98. “Little Expressionless Animals” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
99. “Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
100. “Lyndon” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
101. “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
102. “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot” by Ernest Hemingway
103. “Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit” by Raymond Carver
104. “My Oedipus Complex” by Frank O’Connor
105. “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway
106. “Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway
107. “One of These Days” by Gabriel García Márquez
108. “One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
109. “Out of Season” by Ernest Hemingway
110. “Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
111. “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson
112. “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor
113. “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
114. “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
115. “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver
116. “Powerhouse” by Eudora Welty
117. “Put Yourself in My Shoes” by Raymond Carver
118. “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
119. “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor
120. “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
121. “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton
122. “Runaway” by Alice Munro
123. “Say Yes” by Tobias Wolff
124. “Seven Types of Ambiguity” by Shirley Jackson
125. “Shakespeare’s Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges
126. “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” by Conrad Aiken
127. “Sixty Acres” by Raymond Carver
128. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
129. “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
130. “The Ambitious Guest” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
131. “The April Witch” by Ray Bradbury
132. “The Babylon Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges
133. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro
134. “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
135. “The Beryl Coronet” by Arthur Conan Doyle
136. “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov
137. “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier
138. “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
139. “The Blue Cross” by G. K. Chesterton
140. “The Boarding House” by James Joyce
141. “The Bribe” by Jorge Luis Borges
142. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane
143. “The Cabin” by Raymond Carver
144. “The Cane in the Corridor” by James Thurber
145. “The Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges
146. “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
147. “The Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
148. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
149. “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck
150. “The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges
151. “The Comforts of Home” by Flannery O’Connor
152. “The Courting of Dinah Shadd” by Rudyard Kipling
153. “The Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
154. “The Crop” by Flannery O’Connor
155. “The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury
156. “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
157. “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov
158. “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield
159. “The Dead” by James Joyce
160. “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
161. “The Destructors” by Graham Greene
162. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
163. “The Displaced Person” by Flannery O’Connor
164. “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” by Ernest Hemingway
165. “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield
166. “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury
167. “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury
168. “The End” by Jorge Luis Borges
169. “The Enduring Chill” by Flannery O’Connor
170. “The Father” by Raymond Carver
171. “The Final Problem” by Arthur Conan Doyle
172. “The Five Boons of Life” by Mark Twain
173. “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamud
174. “The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
175. “The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury
176. “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl” by Ray Bradbury
177. “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges
178. “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
179. “The Geranium” by Flannery O’Connor
180. “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
181. “The Gloria Scott” by Arthur Conan Doyle
182. “The Greatest Man in the World” by James Thurber
183. “The Greek Interpreter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
184. “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde
185. “The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith” by Shirley Jackson
186. “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (frame story + multiple stories)
187. “The Immortal” by Jorge Luis Borges
188. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
189. “The Jockey” by Carson McCullers
190. “The Key” by Eudora Welty
191. “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway
192. “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov
193. “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton
194. “The Lame Shall Enter First ” by Flannery O’Connor
195. “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
196. “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry
197. “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
198. “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
199. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor
200. “The Light of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
201. “The Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle
202. “The Lottery in Babylon” by Jorge Luis Borges
203. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
204. “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud
205. “The Man in the Woods” by Shirley Jackson
206. “The Man Who Lived Underground” by Ralph Ellison
207. “The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling
208. “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
209. “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf
210. “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
211. “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce
212. “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
213. “The Missing Girl” by Shirley Jackson
214. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
215. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe
216. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
217. “The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates” by Stephen King
218. “The Night the Ghost Got In” by James Thurber
219. “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde
220. “The Omen” by Shirley Jackson
221. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
222. “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
223. “The Other Death” by Jorge Luis Borges
224. “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft
225. “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol
226. “The Partridge Festival” by Flannery O’Connor
227. “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
228. “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
229. “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson
230. “The Prison” by Bernard Malamud
231. “The Prussian Officer” by D.H. Lawrence
232. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
233. “The Rats in the Walls” by H.P Lovecraft
234. “The Remarkable Rocket” by Oscar Wilde
235. “The Renegade” by Shirley Jackson
236. “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff
237. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence
238. “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
239. “The Scythe” by Ray Bradbury
240. “The Sea Change” by Ernest Hemingway
241. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
242. “The Secret Miracle” by Jorge Luis Borges
243. “The Seed of McCoy” by Octavia Butler
244. “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde
245. “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway
246. “The Small Assassin” by Ray Bradbury
247. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
248. “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
249. “The Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
250. “The Sphinx Without a Secret” by Oscar Wilde
251. “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
252. “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London
253. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
254. “The Student’s Wife” by Raymond Carver
255. “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson
256. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
257. “The Tall Tale of the Willy Nilly” by Eudora Welty
258. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
259. “The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” by Jorge Luis Borges
260. “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
261. “The Tooth” by Shirley Jackson
262. “The Trees” by Conrad Aiken
263. “The Turkey” by Flannery O’Connor
264. “The Underground Woman” by Anne Cameron
265. “The Unicorn in the Garden” by James Thurber
266. “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
267. “The Villagers” by Shirley Jackson
268. “The Voyage” by Katherine Mansfield
269. “The Whistle” by Eudora Welty
270. “The Wide Net” by Eudora Welty
271. “The Wilderness” by Ray Bradbury
272. “The Wind” by Ray Bradbury
273. “The Witch” by Shirley Jackson
274. “The Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
275. “The Writing of the God” by Jorge Luis Borges
276. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
277. “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
278. “There Was an Old Woman” by Ray Bradbury
279. “Three Versions of Judas” by Jorge Luis Borges
280. “Tiny, Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill
281. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
282. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
283. “To Hell with Dying” by Alice Walker
284. “Touched with Fire” by Ray Bradbury
285. “Trial by Combat” by Shirley Jackson
286. “Tuesday Siesta” by Gabriel García Márquez
287. “Uncle Einar” by Ray Bradbury
288. “Untitled Story” by Carson McCullers
289. “Up in Michigan” by Ernest Hemingway
290. “Vandals” by Raymond Carver
291. “Ward No. 6” by Anton Chekhov
292. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
293. “Where I’m Calling From” by Raymond Carver
294. “Who Am I This Time?” by Kurt Vonnegut
295. “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” by Raymond Carver
296. “Window Shopping” by Andrienne Kennedy
297. “Wunderkind” by Carson McCullers
298. “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
299. A & P by John Updike
300. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway
301. A FIGHT WITH A CANNON by Victor Hugo
302. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
303. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
304. A LONELY RIDE by Bret Harte
305. A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
306. A Passion in the Desert, by Honoré de Balza
307. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
308. A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury
309. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Beirce
310. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
311. ARABY by James Joyce
312. Barn Burning by William Faulkner
313. Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges
314. Boys and Girls by Alice Monro
315. Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolf
316. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
317. Chickamauga by Thomas Wolfe
318. Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe
319. Died and Gone to Vegas by Tim Gautreaux
320. Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
321. Dubliners by James Joyce
322. Désirée’s’s Baby by Kate Chopin
323. Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
324. Haircut by Ring Lardner
325. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
326. HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? by Leo Tolstoy
327. How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) by Junot Díaz
328. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen.
329. I Want to Live! by Thom Jones
330. I, Robot by Issac Asimov
331. Let me know if you would like me to suggest 50 more famous short stories!
332. Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
333. Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
334. Menseteung by Alice Munro
335. MY RED CAP by Louisa M. Alcott
336. Nine Stories by JD Salinger
337. Paul’s Case by Willa Carther
338. Paul’s Case by Willa Cather
339. PRESENT AT A HANGING by Ambrose Bierce
340. Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood
341. Soldier’s home  by Ernest Hemingway
342. That Evening Sun, by William Faulkner
343. THE BET by Anton Chekhov
344. The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
345. The Call of Cthullhu by H.P. Lovecraft
346. The Capital of the World by Ernest Hemingway
347. THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by Mark Twain
348. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by F. Scott Fitzgerald
349. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
350. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER by Washington Irving
351. The Door, by E. B Whit
352. The Fall of the House of Usher’s by Edgar Allan Poe
353. THE FALSE GEMS by Guy De Maupassant
354. THE FORTIETH FRENCH ASCENT OF MONT BLANC by Jules Verne
355. The Garden Party by Kathleen Mansfield
356. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
357. The Hitch-Hikers by Eudora Welty
358. The Lady and the Tiger by Ray Bradbury
359. The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekov
360. The Last Leaf by O. Henry
361. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving
362. The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
363. The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
364. THE MAGIC SHOP by H. G. Wells
365. The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling
366. THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
367. THE Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
368. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
369. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
370. THE NIGHT FACE-UP by JULIO CORTAZAR
371. The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane
372. The Other Side of the Hedge by E.M. Forster
373. The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson
374. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte
375. THE REAL THING by Henry James
376. The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
377. The Resemblance Between a Vilin Case and a Coffin by Tennessee Williams
378. The Rockinghorse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
379. The Russian Prioner by Ha Jin
380. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
381. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
382. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
383. THE SISTERS by James Joyce
384. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
385. The Swimmer by John Cheever
386. The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
387. The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
388. There Will Come Soft Rain by Ray Bradbury
389. Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest
390. To Build a Fire by Jack London
391. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates:
392. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
393. Why Don’t You Dance by Raymond Carver (Film)
394. Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty
395. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
396. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
397. Ysrael” by Junot Diaz
398. “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut
399. “A Beautiful Talisman” by Obotunde Ijimere
400. “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
401. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
402. “A Country Road. A Tree.” by James Joyce
403. “A Cup of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield
404. “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane
405. “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway
406. “A Doctor’s Visit” by Anton Chekhov
407. “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain
408. “A Domestic Dilemma” by Carson McCullers
409. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
410. “A History of Eternity” by Jorge Luis Borges
411. “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce
412. “A Justice” by William Faulkner
413. “A Little Cloud” by James Joyce
414. “A Memory” by Eudora Welty
415. “A Natural History of the Dead” by Ernest Hemingway
416. “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
417. “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger
418. “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle
419. “A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver
420. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
421. “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
422. “A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud” by Carson McCullers
423. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
424. “A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway
425. “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
426. “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather
427. “A Way You’ll Never Be” by Ernest Hemingway
428. “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
429. “Abenjacán el Bojarí, Dead in His Labyrinth” by Jorge Luis Borges
430. “About Love” by Anton Chekhov
431. “Across the Bridge” by Graham Greene
432. “Ad Astra” by William Faulkner
433. “After the Race” by James Joyce
434. “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry
435. “After You, My Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson
436. “Akueke” by Chinua Achebe
437. “All Souls” by Jhumpa Lahiri
438. “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury
439. “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away” by Stephen King
440. “Almos’ a Man” by Richard Wright
441. “Alone” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
442. “An Anonymous Story” by Anton Chekhov
443. “An Educated American Woman” by John Cheever
444. “An Encounter” by James Joyce
445. “An Experiment in Misery” by Stephen Crane
446. “An Ideal Family” by Katherine Mansfield
447. “An Incident at Owl Creek Ridge” by Ambrose Bierce
448. “An Indiscreet Journey” by Katherine Mansfield
449. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
450. “An Unwritten Novel” by Virginia Woolf
451. “Araby” by James Joyce
452. “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver
453. “Art and Mr. Mahoney” by Carson McCullers
454. “Asphodel” by Eudora Welty
455. “At the Bay” by Katherine Mansfield
456. “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
457. “Aurora” by Junot Díaz
458. “Averroes’ Search” by Jorge Luis Borges
459. “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar
460. “Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon” by Gabriel García Márquez
461. “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
462. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
463. “Belfast Woman” by Mary Beckett
464. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
465. “Beyond” by William Faulkner
466. “Biathanatos” by Jorge Luis Borges
467. “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway
468. “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway (Part 1)
469. “Black Peter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
470. “Blackbird Pie” by Raymond Carver
471. “Blackness” by Jamaica Kincaid
472. “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield
473. “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler
474. “Blow-Up” by Julio Cortázar
475. “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” by Toni Cade Bambara
476. “Bonded” by Lasana Sekou
477. “Boxes” by Raymond Carver
478. “Boy Breaking Glass” by Gwendolyn Brooks
479. “Boyfriend” by Junot Diaz
480. “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro
481. “Bright and Morning Star” by Richard Wright
482. “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
483. “Butcher’s Embrace” by Graham Greene
484. “Carcassonne” by William Faulkner
485. “Careful” by Raymond Carver
486. “Careful” Raymond Carver
487. “Carried Away” by Alice Munro
488. “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway
489. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
490. “Charles Augustus Milverton” by Arthur Conan Doyle
491. “Charles” by Shirley Jackson
492. “Che ti dice la patria?” by Ernest Hemingway
493. “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce
494. “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
495. “Clancy in the Tower of Babel” by John Cheever
496. “Clay” by James Joyce
497. “Clytie” by Eudora Welty
498. “Collectors” by Raymond Carver
499. “Come Dance With Me in Ireland” by Shirley Jackson
500. “Connection” by Mary Gaitskill
501. “Consuelo’s Kiss” by Junot Diaz
502. “Counterparts” by James Joyce
503. “Court in the West Eighties” by Carson McCullers
504. “Criticism” by Edith Wharton
505. “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period” by J.D. Salinger
506. “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe
507. “Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges
508. “Death of a Traveling Salesman” by Eudora Welty
509. “Defeat” by Kay Boyle
510. “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
511. “Deutsches Requiem” by Jorge Luis Borges
512. “Do What You Can” by Stonewall Jackson
513. “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier
514. “Down at the Dinghy” by J.D. Salinger
515. “Drown” by Junot Diaz
516. “Each in His Own Tongue” by William Dean Howells
517. “Edgemont Drive” by E.L. Doctorow
518. “Edison, New Jersey” by Junot Díaz
519. “Eight O’Clock” by Hurd Hatfield
520. “Elephant” by Raymond Carver
521. “Emma Zunz” by Jorge Luis Borges
522. “EPICAC” by Kurt Vonnegut
523. “Eve’s Diary” by Mark Twain
524. “Eveline” by James Joyce
525. “Everything and Nothing” by Jorge Luis Borges
526. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
527. “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
528. “Eyes of a Blue Dog” by Gabriel García Márquez
529. “Family Furnishings” by Alice Munro
530. “Fathers and Sons” by Ernest Hemingway
531. “Fat” by Raymond Carver
532. “Feathers” by Raymond Carver
533. “Fifty Grand” by Ernest Hemingway
534. “File and Forget” by James Thurber
535. “First Confession” by Frank O’Connor
536. “Flaca” by Junot Díaz
537. “Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter
538. “Flying Home” by Ralph Ellison
539. “For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty” by Countee Cullen
540. “Funes the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges
541. “Funes, His Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges
542. “Funes, the Memorious” by Jorge Luis Borges
543. “Gazebo” by Raymond Carver
544. “Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story” by Roald Dahl
545. “Girls at War” by Chinua Achebe
546. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
547. “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” by Ernest Hemingway
548. “Going to Meet the Man” by James Baldwin (excerpt from novel)
549. “Golden Land” by William Faulkner
550. “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
551. “Goodbye, My Brother” by John Cheever
552. “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov
553. “Grace” by James Joyce
554. “Graffiti” by Julio Cortázar
555. “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
556. “Guests of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor
557. “Gusev” by Anton Chekhov
558. “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
559. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
560. “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” by Alice Munro
561. “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad (novella but famous excerpt)
562. “Hearts and Hands” by O. Henry
563. “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri
564. “Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield
565. “Heritage” by Countee Cullen
566. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
567. “Honor” by William Faulkner
568. “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar
569. “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro
570. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy
571. “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien
572. “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
573. “Ice Man” by Haruki Murakami
574. “Idiots First” by Bernard Malamud
575. “If—” by Rudyard Kipling (poem)
576. “Ill-Considered Praises of a People” by Countee Cullen
577. “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
578. “In the Garden of North American Martyrs” Tobias Wolff
579. “In the Train” by Frank O’Connor
580. “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway
581. “Infection” by Octavia Butler
582. “Instant of the Hour After” by Carson McCullers
583. “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
584. “Intimacy” by Raymond Carver
585. “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce
586. “Jealousy” by William Faulkner
587. “John Billy” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
588. “Jolene: A Life” by E.L. Doctorow
589. “Joy” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
590. “Jubilee” by Graham Greene
591. “Judgement Day” by Flannery O’Connor
592. “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” by J.D. Salinger
593. “Keela the Outcast Indian Maiden” by Eudora Welty
594. “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf
595. “Kindred” by Octavia Butler (Excerpt)
596. “King of the Bingo Game” by Ralph Ellison
597. “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
598. “Lenox Avenue: Midnight” by Langston Hughes
599. “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” by Julio Cortázar
600. “Life of Ma Parker” by Katherine Mansfield
601. “Light is Like Water” by Gabriel García Márquez
602. “Light” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
603. “Like Mother Used to Make” by Shirley Jackson
604. “Livvie” by Eudora Welty
605. “Lizard’s Leg” by William Faulkner
606. “Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle
607. “Louisa, Please Come Home” by Shirley Jackson
608. “Love of Life” by Jack London
609. “Lunch at the Gotham Café” by Stephen King
610. “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” by Carson McCullers
611. “Man and Superman” by Jamaica Kincaid
612. “Man from the South” by Roald Dahl
613. “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe
614. “Marriage à la Mode” by Katherine Mansfield
615. “Master Harold and the Boys” by Athol Fugard
616. “Menudo” by Raymond Carver
617. “Miles City, Montana” by Alice Munro
618. “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
619. “Miss Lora” by Junot Díaz
620. “Moments of Being: “Slater’s Pins Have No Points” by Virginia Woolf
621. “Moon Lake” by Eudora Welty
622. “Moonlight” by Kay Boyle
623. “Morning Song of Senlin” by Conrad Aiken
624. “Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day” by Katherine Mansfield
625. “Mr. and Mrs. Dove” by Katherine Mansfield
626. “Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day” by Katherine Mansfield
627. “Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat” by Roald Dahl
628. “Mrs. Sen’s” by Jhumpa Lahiri
629. “Mule in the Yard” by William Faulkner
630. “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway
631. “My Old Man” Ernest Hemingway
632. “N.” by Stephen King
633. “Night School” by Raymond Carver
634. “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (novel but famous extract)
635. “Nobody Said Anything” by Raymond Carver
636. “Now I Lay Me” by Ernest Hemingway
637. “O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories” (multiple stories)
638. “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
639. “Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence
640. “Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D.H. Lawrence
641. “Oil of Dog” by Ambrose Bierce
642. “Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway
643. “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” by Haruki Murakami
644. “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien
645. “One of These Days” by Gabriel García Márquez
646. “One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
647. “Otravida, Otravez” by Junot Díaz
648. “Pantaloon in Black” by William Faulkner
649. “Parable of the Arrow” Jorge Luis Borges
650. “Parable of the Palace” by Jorge Luis Borges
651. “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson
652. “Parker Adderson, Philosopher” by Ambrose Bierce
653. “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor
654. “Parson’s Pleasure” by Roald Dahl
655. “Patriotism” by Yukio Mishima
656. “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
657. “Pavilion” by John Updike
658. “Peasants” by Frank O’Connor
659. “Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty
660. “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature” by Richard Rorty
661. “Pictures” by Katherine Mansfield
662. “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges
663. “Pigeon Feathers” by John Updike
664. “Pigeons” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
665. “Pillar of Salt” by Shirley Jackson
666. “Poor Little Black Fellow” by Langston Hughes
667. “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver
668. “Possum Song” by Margaret Atwood
669. “Powder” by Tobias Wolff
670. “Powerhouse” by Eudora Welty
671. “Prelude” by Katherine Mansfield
672. “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes” by J.D. Salinger
673. “Previous Condition” by James Baldwin
674. “Proof Positive” by Graham Greene
675. “Psychology” by Katherine Mansfield
676. “Put Yourself in My Shoes” by Raymond Carver
677. “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara
678. “Reunion” by John Cheever
679. “Revelations” by Katherine Mansfield
680. “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor
681. “Revenge of the Redheaded Kid” by Mary Gaitskill
682. “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
683. “Roald Dahl Collected Stories” (multiple famous stories)
684. “Romantic Weekend” by Mary Gaitskill
685. “Roselily” by Alice Walker
686. “Rothschild’s Fiddle” by Anton Chekhov
687. “Royal Beatings” by Alice Munro
688. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes
689. “Saturday’s Child” by Countee Cullen
690. “Say Yes” by Tobias Wolff
691. “Schrödinger’s Cat” by Ursula K. Le Guin
692. “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri
693. “Shingles for the Lord” by William Faulkner
694. “Short Friday” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
695. “Silver Blaze” by Arthur Conan Doyle
696. “Six Years After” by Katherine Mansfield
697. “Sixty Acres” by Raymond Carver
698. “Sleep” by Haruki Murakami
699. “So Much Water So Close to Home” by Raymond Carver
700. “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway
701. “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway
702. “Something Nice” by Mary Gaitskill
703. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
704. “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien
705. “Speech Sounds” by Octavia Butler
706. “Spoiled Brats” by Simon Rich
707. “Spotted Horses” by William Faulkner
708. “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki
709. “Still Life” by Louise Glück
710. “Story of the Warrior and the Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges
711. “Summer People” by Ernest Hemingway
712. “Sun and Moon” by Katherine Mansfield
713. “Swaddling Clothes” by Yukio Mishima
714. “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner
715. “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French” by Stephen King
716. “That Will Be Fine” by William Faulkner
717. “The $30,000 Bequest” by Mark Twain
718. “The Abbey Grange” by Arthur Conan Doyle
719. “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
720. “The Aliens” by Carson McCullers
721. “The Angel Child” by Stephen Crane
722. “The Angel of the Bridge” by John Cheever
723. “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” by Jorge Luis Borges
724. “The Arms and Legs of the Lake” by Mary Gaitskill
725. “The Astrakhan Cloak” by Kay Boyle
726. “The Babylon Lottery” by Jorge Luis Borges
727. “The Basement Room” by Graham Greene
728. “The Bath” by Raymond Carver
729. “The Bear Who Let It Alone” by James Thurber
730. “The Bear” by William Faulkner
731. “The Beauties” by Anton Chekhov
732. “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
733. “The Beggar and the Diamond” by Stephen King
734. “The Beggar Maid” by Alice Munro
735. “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier
736. “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
737. “The Bishop” by Anton Chekhov
738. “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
739. “The Black Monk” by Anton Chekhov
740. “The Blanched Soldier” by Arthur Conan Doyle
741. “The Blue Cross” by G.K Chesterton
742. “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
743. “The Blues I’m Playing” by Ralph Ellison
744. “The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce
745. “The Boarding House” by James Joyce
746. “The Branch Line” by John Cheever
747. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane
748. “The Bridle” by Raymond Carver
749. “The Brooch” by William Faulkner
750. “The Bruce-Partington Plans” by Arthur Conan Doyle
751. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London (excerpt)
752. “The Capital of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
753. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
754. “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
755. “The Chamber of Statues” by Jorge Luis Borges
756. “The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges
757. “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
758. “The Compartment” by Raymond Carver
759. “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges
760. “The Cop and the Anthem” by O. Henry
761. “The Country Husband” by John Cheever
762. “The Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
763. “The Crooked Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle
764. “The Cure” by John Cheever
765. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
766. “The Custodian” by Ray Bradbury
767. “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
768. “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov
769. “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield
770. “The Dead Father” by Donald Barthelme
771. “The Dead Man” by Jorge Luis Borges
772. “The Dead” by James Joyce
773. “The Death of Halpin Frayser” by Ambrose Bierce
774. “The Death of Jack Hamilton” by Stephen King
775. “The Death of Justina” by John Cheever
776. “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace
777. “The Destruction of Kreshev” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
778. “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Vincent Benet
779. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
780. “The Devil’s Foot” by Arthur Conan Doyle
781. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
782. “The Diary of Adam and Eve” by Mark Twain
783. “The Dilettante” by Edith Wharton
784. “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” by Ernest Hemingway
785. “The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King
786. “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield
787. “The Drunkard” by Frank O’Connor
788. “The Dubliners” by James Joyce (short story collection)
789. “The Duchess and the Jeweler” by Virginia Woolf
790. “The Ducks” by Raymond Carver
791. “The Dying Detective” by Arthur Conan Doyle
792. “The Empty House” by Arthur Conan Doyle
793. “The Encounter” by Jorge Luis Borges
794. “The End of Something” by Ernest Hemingway
795. “The End” by Jorge Luis Borges
796. “The Engineer’s Thumb” by Arthur Conan Doyle
797. “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever
798. “The Escape” by Katherine Mansfield
799. “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia Butler
800. “The Eye of Apollo” by G.K Chesterton
801. “The Eyes of the Panther” by Ambrose Bierce
802. “The Eyes” by Edith Wharton
803. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
804. “The Father” by Raymond Carver
805. “The Final Problem” by Arthur Conan Doyle
806. “The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever
807. “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamud
808. “The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
809. “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield
810. “The Foster Portfolio” by Kurt Vonnegut
811. “The Fox” by D.H. Lawrence
812. “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl” by Ray Bradbury
813. “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry
814. “The Future Looks Good” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
815. “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” by Ernest Hemingway
816. “The Garden of Forking Paths ” by Jorge Luis Borges
817. “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
818. “The Geometry of Love” by John Cheever
819. “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
820. “The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost (poem)
821. “The Girl on the Plane” by Mary Gaitskill
822. “The Gloria Scott” by Arthur Conan Doyle
823. “The Golem” by Jorge Luis Borges
824. “The Grasshopper” by Anton Chekhov
825. “The Grave” by Katherine Anne Porter
826. “The Greek Interpreter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
827. “The Guest” by Albert Camus
828. “The Half-Skinned Steer” by E. Annie Proulx
829. “The Haunted Boy” by Carson McCullers
830. “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson (excerpt)
831. “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers (Excerpt)
832. “The Heart of the Matter” by Graham Greene
833. “The Hint of an Explanation” by Graham Greene
834. “The Hitch-Hikers” by Eudora Welty
835. “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D. H. Lawrence
836. “The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges
837. “The House of the Dead Hand” by G.K Chesterton
838. “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” by John Cheever
839. “The Idea” by Raymond Carver
840. “The Illustrious Client” by Arthur Conan Doyle
841. “The Immortal” by Jorge Luis Borges
842. “The Interlopers” by Saki
843. “The Intruder” by Jorge Luis Borges
844. “The Invisible Japanese Gentleman” by Graham Greene
845. “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K. Le Guin
846. “The Jewbird” by Bernard Malamud
847. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
848. “The Key” by Eudora Welty
849. “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway
850. “The Kings” by Julio Cortázar
851. “The Kiss” by Anton Chekhov
852. “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf
853. “The Lady of the Lake” by Bernard Malamud
854. “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton
855. “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov
856. “The Lady with the Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov
857. “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov
858. “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” by Edith Wharton
859. “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton
860. “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
861. “The Last Bow” by Arthur Conan Doyle
862. “The Last Demon” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
863. “The Last Flower” by James Thurber
864. “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry
865. “The Last Mohican” by Bernard Malamud
866. “The Legacy” by Virginia Woolf
867. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
868. “The Leg” by William Faulkner
869. “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
870. “The Letter Writer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
871. “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
872. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor
873. “The Light of the World” by Ernest Hemingway
874. “The Lion’s Mane” by Arthur Conan Doyle
875. “The Little Governess” by Katherine Mansfield
876. “The Little Things” by Raymond Carver
877. “The Lives of the Dead” by Tim O’Brien
878. “The Lottery in Babylon” by Jorge Luis Borges
879. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
880. “The Macbeth Murder Mystery” by James Thurber
881. “The Mad Lomasneys” by Frank O’Connor
882. “The Madman” by Chinua Achebe
883. “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud
884. “The Mainz Psalter” by Ursula K. Le Guin
885. “The Man and the Snake” by Ambrose Bierce
886. “The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King
887. “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright
888. “The Marching Morons” by C.M Kornbluth
889. “The March” by E.L. Doctorow
890. “The Mark on the Wall” Virginia Woolf
891. “The Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
892. “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
893. “The Meeting” by Jorge Luis Borges
894. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang
895. “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce
896. “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
897. “The Mirror of Ink” by Jorge Luis Borges
898. “The Missing Person” by Tobias Wolff
899. “The Missing Three-Quarter” by Arthur Conan Doyle
900. “The Mission of Jane” by Edith Wharton
901. “The Mocking-Bird” by Ambrose Bierce
902. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
903. “The Monster in the Bride’s Chamber” by Lucy Sussex
904. “The Monster” by Stephen Crane
905. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
906. “The Mother of a Queen” by Ernest Hemingway
907. “The Mourners” by Bernard Malamud
908. “The Musgrave Ritual” by Arthur Conan Doyle
909. “The National Pastime” by John Cheever
910. “The Naval Treaty” by Arthur Conan Doyle
911. “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber
912. “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
913. “The Noble Bachelor” by Arthur Conan Doyle
914. “The Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D.H. Lawrence
915. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
916. “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
917. “The Open Window” by Saki
918. “The Orphanage Runaways” by Carson McCullers
919. “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill
920. “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton
921. “The Other” by Jorge Luis Borges
922. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte
923. “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
924. “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck (excerpt)
925. “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
926. “The Pelican” by Edith Wharton
927. “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
928. “The Plot” by Jorge Luis Borges
929. “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson
930. “The Princess and the Tin Box” by James Thurber
931. “The Priory School” by Arthur Conan Doyle
932. “The Progress of Love” by Alice Munro
933. “The Prussian Officer” by D.H. Lawrence
934. “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe
935. “The Queer Feet” by G. K. Chesterton
936. “The Queer Feet” by G.K Chesterton
937. “The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble” by James Thurber
938. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
939. “The Reaper’s Image” by Stephen King
940. “The Red Circle” by Arthur Conan Doyle
941. “The Red-Headed League” by Arthur Conan Doyle
942. “The Reflection” by Carson McCullers
943. “The Reigate Puzzle” by Arthur Conan Doyle
944. “The Reigate Squire” by Arthur Conan Doyle
945. “The Renegade” by Shirley Jackson
946. “The Resident Patient” by Arthur Conan Doyle
947. “The Retired Colourman” by Arthur Conan Doyle
948. “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff
949. “The Ring of Thor” by G.K Chesterton
950. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence
951. “The Round Road” by Lucy Maud Montgomery
952. “The Rule of Names” by Ursula K. Le Guin
953. “The Sacrificial Egg” by Chinua Achebe
954. “The School” by Donald Barthelme
955. “The Sculptor’s Funeral” by Willa Cather
956. “The Sea Change” by Ernest Hemingway
957. “The Second Bakery Attack” by Haruki Murakami
958. “The Secret Goldfish” by David Means
959. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
960. “The Secret Weapons” by Julio Cortázar
961. “The Sect of the Phoenix” by Jorge Luis Borges
962. “The Seed of the Faith” by Edith Wharton
963. “The Sermon on the Warpland” by Gwendolyn Brooks
964. “The Shape of the Sword” by Jorge Luis Borges
965. “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway
966. “The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
967. “The Sisters” by James Joyce
968. “The Skylight Room” by O. Henry
969. “The Slaughterer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
970. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
971. “The Sojourner” by Carson McCullers
972. “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
973. “The Spinoza of Market Street” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
974. “The Storm” by Kate Chopin
975. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
976. “The Story of the Drowning Men” by Jorge Luis Borges
977. “The Storyteller” by Saki
978. “The Stranger” by Katherine Mansfield
979. “The Student’s Wife” by Raymond Carver
980. “The Student” by Anton Chekhov
981. “The Sussex Vampire” by Arthur Conan Doyle
982. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
983. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
984. “The Theologians” by Jorge Luis Borges
985. “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
986. “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri
987. “The Three Gables” by Arthur Conan Doyle
988. “The Three Garridebs” by Arthur Conan Doyle
989. “The Three-Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway
990. “The Tiger Who Understood People” by James Thurber
991. “The Tooth” by Shirley Jackson
992. “The Train” by Raymond Carver
993. “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” by Jhumpa Lahiri
994. “The Trees of Pride” by G.K Chesterton
995. “The Undefeated” by Ernest Hemingway
996. “The Upturned Face” by Stephen Crane
997. “The Veiled Lodger” by Arthur Conan Doyle
998. “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
999. “The Veteran” by Stephen Crane 177 “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
1000. “The Villagers” by Shirley Jackson
1001. “The Voter” by Chinua Achebe
1002. “The Voyage” by Katherine Mansfield
1003. “The Wait” by Jorge Luis Borges
1004. “The War of the Wall” by Toni Cade Bambara
1005. “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl
1006. “The Whistle” by Eudora Welty
1007. “The White Deer” by James Thurber
1008. “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
1009. “The White Horses of Vienna” by Kay Boyle
1010. “The White Stocking” by D. H. Lawrence
1011. “The Wind Blows” by Katherine Mansfield
1012. “The Witness” by Jorge Luis Borges
1013. “The Woman Who Saw Snow” by Carson McCullers
1014. “The World of Apples” by John Cheever
1015. “The Wrong Thing” by Mary Gaitskill
1016. “The Wrysons” by John Cheever
1017. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1018. “The Young Girl” by Katherine Mansfield
1019. “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges
1020. “The £1,000,000 Bank Note” by Mark Twain
1021. “Theft” by Katherine Anne Porter
1022. “Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” by Jorge Luis Borges
1023. “There Are No Thieves in This Town” by Gabriel García Márquez
1024. “There Was a Queen” by William Faulkner
1025. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
1026. “This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri
1027. “Thor Bridge” by Arthur Conan Doyle
1028. “Three Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway
1029. “Three Million Yen” by Yukio Mishima
1030. “Three Versions of Judas” by Jorge Luis Borges
1031. “Tiny Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill
1032. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
1033. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
1034. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
1035. “To Room Nineteen” by Doris Lessing
1036. “Tobermory” by Saki
1037. “Today is Friday” by Ernest Hemingway
1038. “Tomorrow” by William Faulkner
1039. “Too Cute” by Kristen Roupenian
1040. “Torch Song” by John Cheever
1041. “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
1042. “Trial By Combat” by Shirley Jackson
1043. “Tuesday Siesta” by Gabriel García Márquez
1044. “Two Gallants” by James Joyce
1045. “Uncle Ben’s Choice” by Chinua Achebe
1046. “Uncle Willy” by William Faulkner
1047. “Under the Garden” by Graham Greene
1048. “Untitled Piece” by Carson McCullers
1049. “Up in Michigan” by Ernest Hemingway
1050. “Uprooted” by Francis King
1051. “Vengeful Creditor” by Chinua Achebe
1052. “Viewfinder” by Raymond Carver
1053. “Vitamins” by Raymond Carver
1054. “Wakefield” by E. L. Doctorow
1055. “Want to See Something?” by Raymond Carver
1056. “Ward No. 6” by Anton Chekhov
1057. “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson
1058. “We Love Glenda So Much” by Julio Cortázar
1059. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
1060. “Weekend Revisited” by William Faulkner
1061. “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by David Foster Wallace (from Girl with Curious Hair)
1062. “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
1063. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
1064. “What’s in Alaska?” by Raymond Carver
1065. “When Fiction Lives in Fiction” by Jorge Luis Borges
1066. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
1067. “Where I’m Calling From” by Raymond Carver
1068. “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Carson McCullers
1069. “Who Will Greet You at Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
1070. “Whoever Was Using This Bed” by Raymond Carver
1071. “Who’s Passing for Who?” by Langston Hughes
1072. “Why Don’t You Dance?” by Raymond Carver
1073. “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty
1074. “Why We’re Patriots” by E.L. Doctorow
1075. “Why, Honey?” by Raymond Carver
1076. “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” by Raymond Carver
1077. “Willi” by E. L. Doctorow
1078. “Wine of Wyoming” by Ernest Hemingway
1079. “Wingless” by Jamaica Kincaid
1080. “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1081. “Wisteria Lodge” by Arthur Conan Doyle
1082. “Wunderkind” by Carson McCullers
1083. “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1084. “Zlateh the Goat” by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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