Short Story
Ambrose BierceAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
John UpdikeA&P
F. Scott FitzgeraldBabylon Revisited
William FaulknerBarn Burning
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Birthmark
Annie ProulxBrokeback Mountain
Raymond CarverCathedral
Anton ChekhovChekhov Stories
John SteinbeckThe Chrysanthemums
Ernest HemingwayA Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Julio CortázarContinuity of Parks
Sherwood AndersonA Death in the Woods
James JoyceDubliners
Alice WalkerEveryday Use
Flannery O’ConnorEverything That Rises Must Converge
J. D. SalingerFranny and Zooey
Jamaica KincaidGirl
Flannery O’ConnorA Good Man Is Hard to Find
Kurt VonnegutHarrison Bergeron
Ernest HemingwayHills Like White Elephants
Franz KafkaA Hunger Artist
Tillie OlsenI Stand Here Ironing
Jhumpa LahiriInterpreter of Maladies
Katherine Ann PorterThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Shirley JacksonThe Lottery
Richard WrightThe Man Who Was Almost a Man
Herman MelvilleMelville Stories
W. W. JacobsThe Monkey’s Paw
Richard ConnellThe Most Dangerous Game
Guy de MaupassantThe Necklace
D. H. LawrenceOdour of Chrysanthemums
Stephen CraneThe Open Boat
Willa CatherPaul’s Case: A Study in Temperament
J. D. SalingerA Perfect Day for Bananafish
Edgar Allan PoePoe’s Short Stories
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Red-Headed League
Stephen KingRita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
William FaulknerA Rose for Emily
Bobbie Ann MasonShiloh
James BaldwinSonny’s Blues
Kate ChopinThe Story of an Hour
Haruki MurakamiSuper-Frog Saves Tokyo
John CheeverThe Swimmer
Tim O’BrienThe Things They Carried
Gabriel García MárquezA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Raymond CarverWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Joyce Carol OatesWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Eudora WeltyWhy I Live at the P.O.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWinter Dreams
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Yellow Wallpaper
Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman Brown




