Short Fiction

Short Stories

Classic

• The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe
• First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
• The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Three Tales by Gustav Flaubert
• Dead Men Tell No Tales by Emile Zola
• The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
• To Build a Fire and Other Favorite Stories by Jack London
• The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
• Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
• Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov
• The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov
• Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
• Tales From the Thousand and One Nights
• Aesop's Fables
• Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Modern

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

  

• Elephant by Raymond Carver
• Collected Stories of Cynthia Ozick
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner
• In the Heart of the Country by William Gass
• Exile and Kingdom by Albert Camus
• Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
• Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima
• Selected Stories by Alice Munro
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
• The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
• My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor
• Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
• All Fires the Fire and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar

  

• The Complete Short Stories by Saki
• Just After Sunset by Stephen King
• For Esme - With Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
• An Old Pub Near the Angel by James Kelman
• In Between the Sheet by Ian McEwan
• South of No North by Charles Bukowski
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
• Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers by Stanley Elking
• Essential Stories by V.S. Pritchett
• The Return by Andrei Platonov
• The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl
• The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
• The Collected Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
• Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
• Collected Stories of John Cheever

Contemporary

• The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
• Life After God by Douglas Coupland
• How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
• No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
• Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
• The Dog of Marriage by Amy Hempel
• Break it Down by Lydia Davis
• Drown by Junot Diaz
• Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano

Short Short Stories/Flash Fiction

• The Book of Fables by W.S. Merwin
• Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
• The Nimrod Flip-Out by Etgar Keret
• Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
• Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
• Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
• The Collected Stories of Colette
• The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
• The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
• Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
• Microcosmic Tales edit. by Isaac Asimov
• 41 Stories by O. Henry
• AM/PM by Amelia Gray
• Microscripts by Robert Walser
• The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso

  

• The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
• Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
• Nature Stories by Jules Renard
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• One Minute Stories by Istvan Orkeny
• One Thousand and One-Second Stories by Inagaki Taruho
• Selected Stories by Robert Walser
• The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories by Shinichi Hoshi
• The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
• Falsificaciones by Marco Denevi
• Under the Shadow by Gilbert Sorrentino
• The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
• The Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories by Dalton Trevisan
• Microfictions by Ana Maria Shua
• The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories
• The Tunnel: Selected Poems by Russell Edson
• Scenes from the Bathhouse by Mikhail Zoshchenko

  

• Contemplation by Franz Kafka
• Farewells to Plasma by Natasza Goerke
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
• Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews
• The Complete Butchier's Tales by Rikki Duocornet
• More One Minute Stories by Istvan Orkeny
• Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan Jose Arreola
• The Waste Books by George Christoph Lichtenberg
• The Nature of Things by Francis Ponge
• Wild Grass by Lu Xun
• Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortazar
• Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett
• Excitability by Diana Williams
• Between Fantoine and Agapa by Robert Pinget
• PP/FF: An Anthology
• Insects are Just Like You and Me by Kuzhali Manickavel

  

• The Complete Fables by Aesop
• Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany
• Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan
• The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
• Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
• Restless Nights by Dino Buzzati
• Telegrams of the Soul by Peter Altenberg
• Sudden Fiction series edit. by Robert Shapard
• The Museum of Useless Efforts by Cristina Peri Rossi

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• "The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen
• "A Real Doll" by A.M. Homes
• "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" by Alan Silitoe
• "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin
• "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood
• "Passion" by Alice Munro
• "San Fransisco" by Amy Hempel
• "The Kitchen Child" by Angela Carter
• "Burning House" by Anne Beattie
• "Aaron Trow" by Anthony Trollope
• "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
• "The Case of Lady Sannox" by Arthur Conan Doyle
• "Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake
• "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss
• etc.