Best Short Stories

I don’t remember where I got this list from, but here it is.

Achebe, Chinua — Dead Man’s Path

Alcott, Louisa M. — My Red Cap

Anderson, Sherwood — The Other Woman

Asimov, Isaac —  I, Robot

Atwood, Margaret — Rape Fantasies

Beirce, Ambrose — An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Bierce, Ambrose — Present at a Hanging

Borges, Jorge Luis — Borges and I

Bradbury, Ray — A Sound of Thunder

Bradbury, Ray — The Lady and the Tiger

Bradbury, Ray — There Will Come Soft Rain

Carver, Raymond — Cathedral

Carver, Raymond — Why Don’t You Dance?

Carver, Raymond — Will You Please Be Quiet?

Cather, Willa — Paul’s Case

Cheever, John — The Swimmer

Chekhov, Anton — The Bet

Chekov, Anton — The Lady with the Dog

Chopin, Kate — A Pair of Silk Stockings

Chopin, Kate — Desiree’s Baby

Connell, Richard — The Most Dangerous Game

Conrad, Joseph — The Secret Sharer

Cortazar, Julio — The Night Face-Up

Crane, Stephen — The Open Boat

de Balza, Honore — A Passion in the Desert

De Maupassant, Guy — The False Gems

De Maupassant, Guy — The Necklace

Diaz, Junot — How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)

Doyle, Arthur Conan — The Red-Headed League

Faulkner, William — A Rose for Emily

Faulkner, William — Barn Burning

Faulkner, William — That Evening Sun

Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Forster, E.M. — The Other Side of the Hedge

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel — The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Gautreaux, Tim — Died and Gone to Vegas

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins — The Yellow Wallpaper

Harte, Bret — A Lonely Ride

Harte, Bret — The Outcasts of Poker Flats

Hawthorne, Nathaniel — Young Goodman Brown

Hemingway, Ernest — A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Hemingway, Ernest — A Day’s Wait

Hemingway, Ernest — Soldier’s Home

Hemingway, Ernest — The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Hemingway, Ernest — The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Henry, O. —  The Gift of the Magi

Henry, O. — The Last Leaf

Hugo, Victor — A Fight with a Cannon

Irving, Washington — The Devil and Tom Walker

Irving, Washington — The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Jackson, Shirley — The Lottery

Jacobs, W.W. — The Monkey’s Paw

James, Henry — The Real Thing

Jin, Ha — The Russian Prisoner

Jones, Thom — I Want to Live!

Jones, Thom — The Pugilist at Rest

Joyce, James — Araby

Joyce, James — Dubliners

Joyce, James — The Sisters

Kafka, Franz — A Hunger Artist

Kipling, Rudyard — The Man Who Would Be King

Lardner, Ring — Haircut

Lawrence, D.H. — The Rockinghorse Winner

London, Jack — To Build a Fire

Lovecraft, H.P. — The Call of Cthullhu

Mansfield, Kathleen — The Garden Party

Monro, Alice — Boys and Girls

Munro, Alice — Love of a Good Woman

Munro, Alice — Menseteung

Oates, Joyce Carol — Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

O’Brien, Tim — The Things They Carried

O’Connor, Flannery — A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Olsen, Tillie — I Stand Here Ironing

Poe, Edgar Allan — The Fall of the House of Usher

Poe, Edgar Allan — The Masque of the Red Death

Poe, Edgar Allan — The Tell-Tale Heart

Salinger, J.D. — Nine Stories

Stevenson, Robert Louis — The Bottle Imp

Stoker, Bram — Dracula’s Guest

Thurber, James — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Tolstoy, Leo — How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Tolstoy, Leo — The Death of ivan Ilych

Twain, Mark — The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Updike, John — A & P

Verne, Jules — The Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt — Harrison Bergeron

Wallace, David Foster — Girl with Curious Hair

Wells, H.G. — The Magic Shop

Welty, Eudora — The Hitch-Hikers

Welty, Eudora — Why I Love at the P.O.

Whit, E.B. — The Door

Williams, Tennessee — The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin

Williams, William Carlos — The Use of Force

Wolf, Tobias — Bullet in the Brain

Wolfe, Thomas — Chickamauga