Stories


Interpreter of Maladies
Dubliners
Nine Stories
The Alchemist
Tenth of December
Stories of Your Life and Others
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Exhalation
1984
The Lottery and Other Stories
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Jesus’ Son
The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang by Stan YanWait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnDeep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing HahnThe Legend of Decimus Croome by Kevin  Purdy
Middle Grade Ghost Stories
272 books — 152 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,757 books — 1,040 voters

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories of All Time
610 books — 380 voters
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinMarley and Me by John GroganA Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce CameronScent of the Missing by Susannah CharlesonJames Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot
Dog Lovers List
364 books — 243 voters


Erin Morgenstern
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to rec ...more
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Mia Couto
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
Mia Couto

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