Short Story Classics:
The Best from the
Masters of the Genre

Kate Chopin

Nathaniel
Hawthorne

James Joyce

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
• A Story of Ravenna
• Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
• The Spanish-English Lady
• E. T. A. Hoffman (1776-1822)
• The Cremona Violin
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Governor Manco and the Soldier
• The Stout Gentleman
• The Adventure of the German Student
• The Specter Bridegroom
• Rip Van Winkle
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• The Widow and Her Son
• The Devil and Tom Walker Good Choice!!!!!
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
• Fanny McDermot
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
• The Lake Gun
• John Polidori (1795-1821)
• The Vampyre
• Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
• The Mortal Immortal
• Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
• La Grande Breteche
• The Red Inn
• The Atheist's Mass
• Alexander Pushkin(1799-1837)
• The Queen of Spades
• Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
• Zodmirsky's Duel
• Solange: Dr. Ledru’s Story of the Reign of Terror
• Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
• A Fight with a Cannon
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
• Slavery's Pleasant Homes
• The Quadroons
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Young Goodman Brown
• The Birth-mark
• Rappaccini’s Daughter
• The Minister’s Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Snow-Image
• Lady Eleanore's Mantle
• Alice Doan's Appeal
• Ethan Brand
• Wakefield
• The Gentle Boy
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• Feathertop
• The Gray Champion
• The Great Carbuncle
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Wives of the Dead
• Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
• The Overcoat
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Gold-Bug
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Ligeia
• The Black Cat
• MS. Found in a Bottle
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Purloined Letter
• William Wilson
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Imp of the Perverse
• Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
• The Manchester Marriage
• Half-Brothers
• The Old Nurse's Story
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
• The Ghost in the Mill
• Miss Asphyxia
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• The Schoolboy's Story
• A Christmas Carol
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
• Dickon the Devil
• The Murdered Cousin
• Squire Toby's Will
• Laura Silver Bell
• An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)
• The Angel Over the Right Shoulder
• Calico
• Night-Watchers
• Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)
• The Big Bear of Arkansas
• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
• Yermolai and the Miller's Wife
• George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] (1819-1880)
• Brother Jacob
• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• The Lightning-Rod Man
• The Piazza
• Bartleby, the Scrivener
• Billy Budd, Foretopman
• I and My Chimney
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
• The Thief
• Notes From Underground
• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
• A Simple Heart
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902)
• Lemorne Versus Huell
• Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
• A Terribly Strange Bed
• Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
• The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter
• Love in a Garden
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
• The Two Offers
• Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
• Miss Lucinda
• Dely's Cow
• About Dolly
• Grit
• Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862)
• What Was It? Good Choice!!!!!
• My Wife's Tempter
• The Diamond Lens
• The Golden Ingot
• The Wondersmith
• The Child Who Loved A Grave
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych
• How Much Land Does a Man Need?
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
• Krambambuli
• Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
• The Phantom Coach
• The Four-Fifteen Express
• Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
• Life in the Iron-Mills
• The Wife's Story
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
• Transcendental Wild Oats
• How I Went Out to Service
• The Blue and the Gray
• A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe
• Frank Stockton (1834-1902)
• The Lady or the Tiger
• The Griffin and the Minor Canon
• The Widow's Cruise
• My Unwilling Neighbor
• A Piece of Red Calico
• Love Before Breakfast
• Captain Eli's Best Ear
• The Christmas Wreck
• Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
• Circumstance
• Moonstone Mass
• In a Cellar
• The Mad Lady
• The Nemesis of Motherhood
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
• The Story of the Old Ram
• The Californian's Tale
• The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
• Marjorie Daw
• Quite So
• Bret Harte (1836-1902)
• The Iliad of Sandy Bar
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• Tennessee’s Partner
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• The Idyll of Red Gulch
• William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
• Editha
• Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889)
• The Torture of Hope
• Vera
• Olympe and Henrietta
• The Desire to be a Man
• Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
• The Last Lesson
• Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
• Peter, the Parson
• Felipa
• Miss Grief
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
• Squire Petrick's Lady
• An Imaginative Woman
• The Grave by the Handpost
• Old Mrs Chundle Good Choice!!!!!
• Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
• Cavalleria Rusticana
• The Saint Joseph's Ass
• Emile Zola (1840-1902)
• The Death of Olivier Becaille
• Rentafoil
• Big Michu
• W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
• Story of a Piebald Horse
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
• The Damned Thing
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• One of the Missing
• One Summer Night
• A Horseman in the Sky
• What I Saw of Shiloh
• George Thurston
• Killed at Resaca
• Chickamauga
• Henry James (1843-1916)
• The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux
• Daisy Miller: A Study
• The Beast in the Jungle
• The Great Good Place
• The Story in it
• The Real Thing
• Anatole France (1844-1924) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
• The Procurator of Judea
• The Mass of Shadows
• George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
• Belles Demoiselles Plantation
• Café des Exilés
• "Posson Jone'"
• Jean-ah Poquelin
• 'Tite Poulette
• 'Sieur George
• Madame Délicieuse
• Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
• Dracula's Guest
• The Secret of the Growing Gold
• Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
• Maverick
• Friend Barton's Concern
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
• Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby
• Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
• A White Heron
• Miss Tempy's Watchers
• The Hiltons' Holiday
• The Foreigner
• The Flight of Betsey Lane
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• Markheim
• The Bottle Imp
• The Body-Snatcher
• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
• The Necklace
• The Jewels of M. Lantin
• The Trip of the Horla
• The Grave
• Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary Noailles Murfree] 1850-1922
• The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove
• Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939)
• A Marriage
• The Death Mask
• Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
• At The 'Cadian Ball
• The Storm [A Sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball"]
• Regret Good Choice!!!!!
• Ozème's Holiday
• At Chênière Caminada
• The Story of an Hour
• A Respectable Woman
• A Night in Acadie
• Désirée's Baby
• Ripe Figs
• Madame Célestin's Divorce
• Grace King (1852-1932)
• The Little Convent Girl
• La Grande Demoiselle
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
• The Revolt of "Mother"
• A New England Nun
• A Church Mouse
• Old Woman Magoun
• The Lost Ghost
• A Mistaken Charity
• One Good Time
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
• The Canterville Ghost
• Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
• The Eve of the Fourth
• George Gissing (1857-1903)
• The Foolish Virgin
• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
• The Lagoon
• The Inn of the Two Witches—A Find
• Youth
• The Secret Sharer
• Heart of Darkness
• Charles A. Eastman (1858-1939)
• The Madness of Bald Eagle
• Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
• The Sheriff's Children
• The Goophered Grapevine
• Po' Sandy
• Dave's Neckliss
• The Wife of His Youth
• George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright] (1859-1945)
• Wedlock
• A Little Grey Glove Good Choice!!!!!
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• A Case of Identity
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• The Final Problem
• The Adventure of the Empty House
• The Parasite
• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
• The Darling
• Misery Good Choice!!!!!
• The Lady with the Dog
• About Love
• Anna on the Neck
• Gooseberries
• The Grasshopper
• Gusev
• The Huntsman
• The Kiss
• The Teacher of Literature
• The Man in a Case
• The Party
• Peasants
• Oh! the Public
• In the Ravine
• Sleepy
• Small Fry
• The Student
• Vanka
• Ward No. 6
• Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
• Under the Lion's Paw
• The Return of a Private
• Up the Coulee
• A Branch Road
• Among the Corn Rows
• The Creamery Man
• Uncle Ethan Ripley
• A "Good Fellow's" Wife
• A Day's Pleasure
• God's Ravens
• Mrs. Ripley's Trip
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
• The Yellow Wall-Paper
• Turned
• M. R. James (1862-1936)
• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
• Roman Fever
• Souls Belated
• The Other Two
• O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)
• The Whirligig of Life
• The Cop and the Anthem
• The Gift of the Magi
• A Municipal Report
• The Caballero's Way
• Buried Treasure
• The Ransom of Red Chief
• Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
• Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
• W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)
• The Money-Box
• Jerry Bundler
• The Changeling
• Angels' Visits
• In the Family
• Low Water
• A Circular Tour
• The Rival Beauties
• The Monkey's Paw
• Andrew Barton ‘Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
• Three Elephant Power
• His Masterpiece
• White-when-he's-wanted
• Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
• How Hefty Burke Got Even
• The Nature Faker
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
• Without Benefit of Clergy
• The Mark of the Beast
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw
• 'They'
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
• H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
• The Jilting of Jane
• The Magic Shop
• The Country of the Blind
• The Door in the Wall
• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
• War Good Choice!!!!!
• Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
• The Drover's Wife
• The Golden Graveyard
• The Hairy Man
• The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife
• In a Wet Season
• Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
• Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
• Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916)
• The Lumber-Room
• Gabriel-Ernest
• Tobermory
• The Open Window
• The Cobweb
• The Story-Teller
• Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson] (1870-1946)
• Two Hanged Women
• Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
• The Gentleman from San Francisco
• Frank Norris (1870-1902)
• Fantaisie Printaniere
• The Ship That Saw a Ghost
• The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
• Two Hearts That Beat As One
• A Deal in Wheat
• A Case for Lombroso Good Choice!!!!!
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• An Experiment in Misery Good Choice!!!!!
• The Open Boat
• The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
• The Blue Hotel
• The Little Regiment
• The Price of the Harness
• A Detail
• A Mystery of Heroism
• A Gray Sleeve
• The Pace Of Youth
• Three Miraculous Soldiers
• One Dash-Horses
• The Mesmeric Mountain
• Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
• Old Rogaum and His Theresa
• Married
• The Lost Phoebe
• Ida Hauchawout Good Choice!!!!!
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
• The Lynching of Jube Benson
• Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
• The Shadowy Third
• The Past
• Willa Cather (1873-1947)
• Jack-a-Boy
• The Burgler's Christmas
• Paul's Case
• On the Divide
• Lou, the Prophet
• The Enchanted Bluff
• The Affair at Grover Station
• Neighbour Rosicky
• The Bohemian Girl
• On the Gull's Road
• G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• The Blue Cross
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• In a Strange Land
• Mackintosh
• The Lotus Eater
• Rain
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
• The Good Anna
• Melanctha
• Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
• The Treasure Ship
• Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
• Tonio Kroger
• The Infant Prodigy
• Disorder and Early Sorrow
• Death in Venice
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
• Sister Josepha
• Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
• A Jury of Her Peers
• Jack London (1876-1916)
• The Mexican
• The Heathen
• The Seed of McCoy
• South of the Slot
• To Build a Fire
• The Law of Life
• In a Far Country
• All Gold Canyon
• The White Silence
• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
• I'm a Fool
• Seeds
• The Other Woman
• Unlighted Lamps
• The Door of the Trap
• Brothers
• War
• Motherhood
• Senility
• The Man in the Brown Coat
• The Philosopher
• The Egg
• I Want to Know Why
• The New Englander
• Hands
• Mother
• Adventure
• William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• The Voice in the Night
• Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
• Within and Without
• In the Old "Sun"
• A.E. Coppard (1878-1957)
• Broadsheet Ballad Good Choice!!!!!
• The Higgler
• Arabesque: The Mouse
• The Hurly-Burly
• E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
• The Road from Colonus
• Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties
• Mr. Andrews
• The Eternal Moment
• The Story of the Siren
• James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
• Porcelain Cups
• Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)
• A Drop in the Bucket
• The Artist
• Horacio Quiroga (1879-1937)
• The Feather Pillow
• Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
• The Bloodhounds of Broadway
• Blood Pressure
• A Piece of Pie Good Choice!!!!!
• Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
• The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
• Uncle Fred Flits By
• James Joyce (1882-1941)
• Araby
• The Sisters
• Eveline
• A Little Cloud
• Counterparts
• Clay
• The Dead
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
• Kew Gardens
• The Duchess and the Jeweller
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
• The Metamorphosis
• A Hunger Artist
• Isak Dinesen [Baroness Karen Blixen] (1885-1962)
• Dreaming Child
• The Ring
• The Pearls
• Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
• Moths in the Arc Light
• Go East, Young Man
• Let's Play King
• The Hack Driver
• The Willow Walk
• The Cat of Stars
• The Kidnaped Memorial
• Things
• Land
• Speed
• A Letter From the Queen
• The Ghost Patrol
• Young Man Axelbrod
• D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
• The Man Who Loved Islands
• Two Bluebirds
• Love Among the Haystacks
• The Horse Dealer's Daughter
• The Thorn in the Flesh
• The Shades of Spring
• The Christening
• Odour of Chrysanthemums
• The White Stocking
• The Prussian Officer
• Daughters of the Vicar
• Adolf
• Monkey Nuts
• Rex
• The Rocking-Horse Winner
• Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
• I Can't Breathe
• My Roomy
• Alibi Ike
• Haircut
• Carmen
• The Golden Honeymoon
• Horseshoes
• The Water Cure
• François Mauriac (1885-1970) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
• Thérèse and the Doctor
• Edna Ferber (1887-1968)
• April 25th, As Usual
• Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
• Killer in the Rain
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
• The Stranger
• Miss Brill
• The Garden-Party
• The Doll's House
• The Fly
• Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
• Silent Snow, Secret Snow
• Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
• He
• The Old Order
• Flowering Judas
• Theft
• Rope
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Sweat
• The Gilded Six-Bits
• Story in Harlem Slang
• Spunk
• Black Death
• Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
• Sanctuary
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
• In a Grove
• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
• Leaf by Niggle
• Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
• The Phoenix Good Choice!!!!!
• Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
• You Were Perfectly Fine
• A Telephone Call
• Big Blonde
• Travelogue
• The Last Tea
• Arrangement in Black and White
• Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
• Blood-Burning Moon
• Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
• Nightmare Town
• Ruffian's Wife
• The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
• Night Shots
• The Assistant Murderer
• Death on Pine Street
• The Second-Story Angel
• Afraid of a Gun
• One Hour
• Who Killed Bob Teal?
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
• The Gioconda Smile
• The Tillotson Banquet
• Nuns at Luncheon Good Choice!!!!!
• James Thurber (1894-1961)
• The Catbird Seat
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
• The Sniper
• The Inquisition
• The Reaping Race
• The Challenge
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Offshore Pirate
• The Jelly-bean
• The Baby Party
• The Rich Boy
• Babylon Revisited
• Winter Dreams
• A Short Trip Home
• An Alcoholic Case
• Crazy Sunday
• The Rough Crossing
• Design in Plaster
• Two for a Cent
• A Man in the Way
• William Faulkner (1897-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
• A Rose for Emily
• Lucas Beauchamp
• Barn Burning
• That Evening Sun Go Down
• Wash
• Dry September
• Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• By the Waters of Babylon
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
• The Man on the Threshold
• Death and the Compass
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
• The Jay
• Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
• The Easter Egg Party
• The Demon Lover
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
• First Love
• "That in Aleppo Once . . ."
• Sounds
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
• The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
• The End of Something
• My Old Man
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• A Very Short Story
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• Hills Like White Elephants
• Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
• Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
• Cat in the Rain
• The Killers
• Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
• The Lost Boy
• His Father’s Earth
• Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
• Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991)
• Fugue
• V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997)
• The Saint
• Blind Love
• Katherine Brush (1902-1952)
• Night Club
• Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
• Convalescence
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
• Thank You, Ma'm
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1962
• The Chrysanthemums
• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
• Love Among the Ruins
• Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
• First Confession
• The Drunkard
• My Oedipus Complex
• Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)
• The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored
• Yellow Girl
• The Strawberry Season
• Kneel to the Rising Sun
• Saturday Afternoon
• Graham Greene (1904-1991)
• The Destructors
• The Hint of an Explanation
• I Spy
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
• The Spinoza of Market Street
• The Washwoman
• Gimpel the Fool
• Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)
• Over the River and through the Woods
• A Death in the House Good Choice!!!!!
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
• The Wall
• Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)
• A Man Called Horse
• R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
• An Astrologer's Day
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
• They
• Louis L’Amour (1908-1988)
• Trap of Gold
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Why I Live at the P.O.
• Petrified Man
• A Curtain of Green
• The Hitch-Hikers
• A Worn Path
• Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
• The Eye Good Choice!!!!!
• Jack Finney (1911-1995)
• Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• The Yellow Bird
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
• The Norwegian Rat
• Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
• I Stand Here Ironing
• John Cheever (1912-1982)
• The Swimmer
• Clementina
• The Enormous Radio
• Goodbye, My Brother
• The Five-Forty-Eight
• Albert Camus (1913-1960) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
• The Guest
• Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
• Axolotl
• Blowup
• The Night Face Up
• Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
• My Life with the Wave
• The Blue Bouquet
• Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
• Battle Royal
• Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
• The Magic Barrel
• The Jewbird
• Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
• A Silver Dish
• Leaving the Yellow House
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
• The Lottery
• Charles
• One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
• Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
• Wunderkind
• The Sojourner
• A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
• The Jockey
• A Domestic Dilemma
• Peter Taylor (1917-1994)
• A Spinster’s Tale
• Es'Kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)
• Mrs. Plum
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• The Evitable Conflict
• Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994)
• My First and Most Beloved Friend Good Choice!!!!!
• Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
• The Bracelet
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
• Harrison Bergeron
• Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951)
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
• Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
• The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man
• The Adventure of a Photographer
• The Adventure of a Poet
• Truman Capote (1924-1984)
• A Christmas Memory
• Miriam
• Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994)
• Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge
• Good Country People
• The Artificial Nigger
• A Circle of Fire
• The Life You Save May Be Your Own
• Parker's Back
• Revelation
• Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
• Fountains in the Rain
• Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
• The King of the Elves
• John Updike (1932-2009)
• Pigeon Feathers Good Choice!!!!!
• A & P
• Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
• The Lesson