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*''Rashomon and Other Stories ''by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
*''Rashomon and Other Stories ''by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
===Modern===
===Modern===
*''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' by Raymond Carver
*''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' by Raymond Carver[[File:Palm_of_the_Hand_Stories.jpg|right|150px]]
*''Elephant ''by Raymond Carver
*''Elephant ''by Raymond Carver
*''Collected Stories ''of Cynthia Ozick
*''Collected Stories ''of Cynthia Ozick
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*''My Oedipus Complex ''by Frank O'Connor
*''My Oedipus Complex ''by Frank O'Connor
*''Blow-Up and Other Stories'' by Julio Cortazar
*''Blow-Up and Other Stories'' by Julio Cortazar
*''All Fires the Fire and Other Stories'' by Julio Cortazar
*''All Fires the Fire and Other Stories'' by Julio Cortazar[[File:Burning_Your_Boats.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Complete Short Stories'' by Saki
*''The Complete Short Stories'' by Saki
*''Just After Sunset'' by Stephen King
*''Just After Sunset'' by Stephen King
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*''Moral Disorder ''by Margaret Atwood
*''Moral Disorder ''by Margaret Atwood
*''Collected Stories ''of John Cheever
*''Collected Stories ''of John Cheever
===Contemporary===
===[[File:The_Elephant_Vanishes.jpg|right|150px]]Contemporary===
*''The Informers'' by Bret Easton Ellis
*''The Informers'' by Bret Easton Ellis
*''Life After God'' by Douglas Coupland
*''Life After God'' by Douglas Coupland
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*''AM/PM'' by Amelia Gray
*''AM/PM'' by Amelia Gray
*''Microscripts ''by Robert Walser
*''Microscripts ''by Robert Walser
*''The Black Sheep and Other Fables ''by Augusto Monterroso
*''The Black Sheep and Other Fables ''by Augusto Monterroso[[File:Nature_Stories.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Age of Wire and String ''by Ben Marcus
*''The Age of Wire and String ''by Ben Marcus
*''Road-Side Dog'' by Czeslaw Milosz
*''Road-Side Dog'' by Czeslaw Milosz
*''Nature Stories'' by Jules Renard[[File:Nature_Stories.jpg|right|150px]]
*''Nature Stories'' by Jules Renard
*''Invisible Cities'' by Italo Calvino
*''Invisible Cities'' by Italo Calvino
*''One Minute Stories'' by Istvan Orkeny
*''One Minute Stories'' by Istvan Orkeny
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*''The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories''
*''The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories''
*''The Tunnel: Selected Poems'' by Russell Edson
*''The Tunnel: Selected Poems'' by Russell Edson
*''Scenes from the Bathhouse ''by Mikhail Zoshchenko
*''Scenes from the Bathhouse ''by Mikhail Zoshchenko[[File:Exercises_in_Style.jpg|right|150px]]
*''Contemplation ''by Franz Kafka
*''Contemplation ''by Franz Kafka
*''Farewells to Plasma'' by Natasza Goerke
*''Farewells to Plasma'' by Natasza Goerke
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*''The Complete Butchier's Tales ''by Rikki Duocornet
*''The Complete Butchier's Tales ''by Rikki Duocornet
*''More One Minute Stories ''by Istvan Orkeny
*''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[[File:Dreamtigers.jpg|right|150px]]
*''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
[[Category:Recommended Reading]]
[[Category:Recommended Reading]]

Revision as of 22:22, 30 May 2012

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