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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 | *''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