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December 2025
129. Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
226. The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
289. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
342. Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov
368. Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
451. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
128. A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
401. A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow
58. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
164. A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

November 2025
18. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
353. The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
122. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
115. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
169. The Son's Veto by Thomas Hardy
8. Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
333. A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963) from Four for Tomorrow by Roger Zelazny
238. The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off from Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
534. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein
81. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

October 2025
229. The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
249. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
398. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
14. The Sailor Boy's Tale by Isak Dinesen
186. The Invisible Girl by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
438. The Ebony Frame by E. Nesbit
290. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
53. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
380. A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
446. A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo

Contributing Members
Name, message #, number of selections

Katy, message 24, 5 titles
Sara, message 26, 5 titles
Darren, message 28 &30, 10 titles
Kimberly, message 31&52, 10 titles
Janelle, message 32, 10 titles
J_BlueFlower, message 34&47, 10 titles
Lynn, message 40&45, 7 titles
Klowey, message 53, 7 titles
Kathleen, message 54&81, 8 titles
Marilyn, message 58, 6 titles
Sam, message 60, 10 titles
Wobbley, message 69&74, 10 titles
Greg, message 87, 1 title
Julie, messsage 90, 1 title

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New additions added to master spread sheet but not added or numbered to above list

Separating by John Updike
Everyday Use (Title Story) by Alice Walker
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor
The Leader of the People by John Steinbeck
Looking For Mr. Green by Saul Bellow

Possible selections to research, taken from textbooks, but need follow up before adding above

The Egg and Other Stories Title Story, by Sherwood Anderson on list??? can't find

No Goodreads link--
The Frogs Who Wanted a King by Aesop
The Kool-Aid Wino by Richard Brautigan
Out on the Ocean by Horatio Alger
A Keelboatman's Ghost Story by Mark Twain
Petrified Man by Endora Welty
Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud
Why I Like Country Music by James Alan McPherson

Need to check for goodreads link--
Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth

Master List. 500-599

500. Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott
501. Paul's Case by Willa Cather
502. The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
503. "Smoke" by Djuna Barnes
504. Sanctuary found in The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories by Nella Larsen
505. The Star by H. G. Wells Illustrated by H.G. Wells
506. Contact by Frances Noyes Hart
507. The Camel's Back by F. Scott Fitzgerald
508. Break-Neck Hill by Esther Forbes
509. Butterflies: Platinum Edition by Rose Sidney
510. The Lion of Comarre by Arthur C. Clarke
511. Each in His Generation by Maxwell Struthers Burt found in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
512. Beyond the Bayou by Kate Chopin
513. At the 'Cadian Ball by Kate Chopin
514. An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf
515. Prelude by Katherine Mansfield
516. The Burglar’s Christmas by Willa Cather
517. Three Thanksgivings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
518. The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley Title Story by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
519. Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë
520. The Judgment of Vulcan by Lee Foster Hartman found in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
521. The Namesake by Willa Cather
522. Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham
523. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
524. The Tattooer by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
525. Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
526. The Gift by Ray Bradbury, very short
527. Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy
528. The Story of a Panic by E.M. Forster
529. The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
530. Wall-to-Wall Grave, The by Andrew Benedict
531. The Child Who Believed by Grace Amundson
532. An extinct Angel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
533. Frritt-Flacc by Jules Verne
534. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein
535. The New Dress by Virginia Woolf
536. An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock
537. Like a Winding Sheet by Ann Petry
538. Old Rogaum and His Theresa by Theodore Dreiser
539. The Law of Life by Jack London
540. Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkála-Šá
541. The School Days of an Indian Girl by Zitkála-Šá
542. Editha by William Dean Howells
543. The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
544. Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather
545. Spotted Horses by William Faulkner
546. That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
547.The man who stole the Eiffel Tower by Graham Greene
548. Godfather Death by Jacob Grimm
549. The Chaser by John Collier
550. The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
551. A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield
552. Miriam by Truman Capote
553. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
554. I’ll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler
555. In Exile by Anton Chekhov
556. The Blind Man by D.H. Lawrence
557. First Confession by Frank O'Connor
558. A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
559. Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne
560. The Foreigner by Sarah Orne Jewett
561. The Blue Hotel: Short Story by Stephen Crane
562. An Episode of War by Stephen Crane


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Master List. 400-499

400. Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
401. A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow
402. The White Quail found in The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
403. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? title story by Joyce Carol Oates
404. The Angel in the Alcove by Tennessee Williams
405. Felipa by Constance Fenimore Woolson
406. Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston
407. Seventy Thousand Assyrians by William Saroyan
408. A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver
409. Quality by John Galsworthy
410, Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
411. Behind the White Brick by Frances Hodgson Burnett
412. The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
413. The Other Two by Edith Wharton
414. A Marriage of Persuasion from Sylvia’s World, And, Crimes Which the Law Does Not Reach by Susan Petigru King
415. The Sheriff's Children from The Wife of his Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt
416. The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte
417. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
418. The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
419. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
420. The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
421. Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
422. The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland
423. The Mission Of Jane by Edith Wharton
424. The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
425. The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
426. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen
427. Wunderkind by Carson McCullers
428. To Room Nineteen Title Story by Doris Lessing
429. The Eldest Child by Maeve Brennan
430. An Interest in Life by Grace PaleyMark Twain
431. Araby by James Joyce
432. A Warrior's Daughter by Zitkála-Šá
433. The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
434. The War Prayer by Mark Twain
435. Indissoluble Matrimony by Rebecca West
436. Immensee by Theodor Storm
437. The Open Window by Saki
438. The Ebony Frame by E. Nesbit
439. Christmas at Red Butte by L.M. Montgomery
440. The Inn by Guy de Maupassant
441. A River Runs through It Title Story by Norman Maclean, 105 pages
442. A Piece of Steak by Jack London
443. The Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth
444. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
445. The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
446. A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo
447. The Last Leaf by O. Henry
448. The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
449. Smith and the Pharaohs by H. Rider Haggard
450. Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
451. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
452. The Storm by Kate Chopin
453. Her Letters by Kate Chopin
454. Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
455. Arena by Fredric Brown
456. The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury
457. The Coup de Grâce by Ambrose Bierce
458. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce
459. The Garden Lodge by Willa Cather
460. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
461. Wit by Margaret Edson
462. It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
463. Mars Is Heaven: Short story by Ray Bradbury
464. Love of Life Title Story by Jack London
465. Jean-Ah Poquelin by George Washington Cable
466. Kneel to the Rising Sun and Other Stories Title Story by Erskine Caldwell
467. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
468. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
469. Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim," by Norman Maclean
470. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
471. Misery by Anton Chekhov
472. A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
473, Hands by Sherwood Anderson
474. A Woman on a Roof by Doris Lessing
475. The Guest by Albert Camus
476. The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury
477. A Short Trip Home by F. Scott Fitzgerald
478. The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
479. Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick
480. Patriotism by Yukio Mishima
481. How Beautiful With Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele
482. Tomorrow by William Faulkner
483. The July Ghost by A.S. Byatt
484. Bears Discover Fire Title Story by Terry Bisson
485. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter
486. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
487. On Horsemanship - Xenophon
488. Mother Sauvage by Guy de Maupassant
489. The Drowned Giant by J.G. Ballard
490. Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer
491. The Cactus by O. Henry
492. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
493. Mimsy Were The Borogoves by Lewis Padgett
494. The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
495. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion by Thomas Hardy
496. They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
497. The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
498. The Sojourner by Carson McCullers
499. The News in English by Graham Greene

Master List 300-399

300. The Copycat And Other Stories title story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
301. Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society by Dorothy L. Sayers
302. The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét
303. Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
304. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
305. The News in English by Graham Greene
306. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
307. Epidicus by Plautus
308. The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
309. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
310. Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
311. The Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Gaskell
312. In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In, found in The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
313. Do You Love Me? found in The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey
314. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
315. Tower of Babylon in Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang
316. Story of Your Life in Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
317. Cathedral found in Cathedral by Raymond Carver
318. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
319. A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
320. Bliss from The Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
321. On Books and Reading by Arthur Schopenhauer
322. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
323. The Wonderful O by James Thurber
324. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
325. The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood
326. The Newton Letter by John Banville
327. The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe
328. The Destructors by Graham Greene
329. A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain
330. The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
331. A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
332. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
333. A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963) from Four for Tomorrow by Roger Zelazny
334. The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell
335. The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories title story by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
336. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Djibril Tamsir Niane
337. Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
338. The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
339. The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
340. The Landlady by Roald Dahl
341. My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima title play by Yukio Mishima
342. Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov
343. My Kinsman Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
344. You Make Your Own Lift from Essential Stories by V.S. Pritchett
345. Thomas Of Reading by Thomas Deloney
346. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
347. The Office by Alice Munro
348. O Youth and Beauty by John Cheever
349. The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
350. The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
351. Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories title story by Ding Ling
352. Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty, found in The American Short Story
353. The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
354. The Love Poems of John Donne
355. Fifty Grand by Ernest Hemingway
356. The Chase by Alejo Carpentier
357. The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
358. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
359. The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
360. The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck
361. Kitchen title story by Banana Yoshimoto
362. Moon Shadow from Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
363. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
364. Phèdre by Jean Racine
365. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories title story by Gabriel García Márquez
366. Goodbye, My Brother ffound in The Stories of John Cheever
367. Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
368. Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
369. The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
370. The Other Shore title play by Gao Xingjian
371. A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James
372. Tristan by Thomas Mann
373. The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde
374. The Web of Earth by Thomas Wolfe
375. The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
376. Tonka by Robert Musil
377. The Ballerina and the Body by Alfred Döblin
378. The Jews' Beech byAnnette von Druste-Hülshoff
379. The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser
380. A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
381. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
382. Letter from Lord Chandos to Francis Bacon by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
383. The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays by Kōbō Abe
384. What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
385. La Belle Zoraide by Kate Chopin
386. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
387. The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald
388. The Verger by W. Somerset Maugham
389. The Intelligence Office by Nathaniel Hawthorne
390. In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
391. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
392. Flowering Judas Title Story by Katherine Anne Porter
393. Recitatif by Toni Morrison
394. The Last Asset by Edith Wharton
395. Judas Iscariot and Others by Leonid Andreyev
396. The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield
397. Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
398. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
399. Albert Nobbs by George Moore

Master List 200-299

200. Heirs to the Past by Driss Chraïbi
201. The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
202. Human Rites by Amélie Nothomb
203. The Queen Who Flew : A Fairy Tale by Ford Madox Ford
204. Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
205. The Black Cat byEdgar Allan Poe
206. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Unknown
207. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
208. The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
209. Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
210. Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes
211. Trifles by Susan Glaspell
212. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
213. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
214. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
215. The Furnished Room by O. Henry
216. Mina Laury by Charlotte Brontë
217. After Twenty Years by O. Henry
218. alphabet by Inger Christensen
219. The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
220. Over the River and Through the Woods, found in Collected Stories of John O'Hara
221. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
222. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
223. Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald
224. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
225. Freaks; Or Spurs by Tod Robbins
226. The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
227. It Had to Be Murder title story by Cornell Woolrich
228. Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
229. The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
230. The Street of Crocodiles title story by Bruno Schulz
231. Slow Poison by Alice Duer Miller found in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
232. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
233. The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann
234. The Family Under the Bridge: A Newbery Honor Award Winner by Natalie Savage Carlson
235. Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci
236. The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
237. The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
238. The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off from Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
239. The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
240. The Flying Stars by G.K. Chesterton
241. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
242. Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
243. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
244. A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction, Short Stories, Title story
245. The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
246. The Confession of St. Patrick
247. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
248. The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
249. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
250. Fellow-Townsmen by Thomas Hardy
251. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
252. Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
253. The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok by Anonymous
254. Haircut by Ring Lardner
255. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
256. Reginald by -. Saki
257. In the Middle of the Fields Title story by Mary Josephine Lavin
258. A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
259. The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein
260. And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende
261. Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist
262. Teddy by J.D. Salinger
263. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
264. The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare
265. Butterball by Guy de Maupassant
266. The Last Day in the Field from The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
267. The Afternoon of a Faun by Edna Ferber
268. The Daughters Of The Late Colonel by Katherine Mansfield
269. Queenie: A story by Alice Munro
270. Collages by Anaïs Nin
271. Louise by W. Somerset Maugham
272. The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
273. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
274. Under a Glass Bell by Anaïs Nin
275. King Pest by Edgar Allan Poe
276. The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
277. Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories title story by Eudora Welty
278. Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov
279. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen
280. The Tree by John Fowles
281. The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence
282. Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter
283. Quitters, Inc by Stephen King
284. The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
285. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
286. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories title story by Sandra Cisneros
287. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
288. The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
289. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
290. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
291. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories title story by Angela Carter
292. Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
293. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
294. J'accuse! by Émile Zola
295. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
296. Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
297. The Alter of the Dead: Classic Literary Fiction by Henry James
298. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
299. The Birthmark and Other Stories title story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Master List 100-199

100. A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
101. The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue
102. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
103. Daisy Miller by Henry James
104. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
105. Second Chance by Sydney Banks
106. The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells
107. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
108. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
109. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving byLouisa May Alcott
110. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
111. The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
112. Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King 47pp, 1978
113. Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
114. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
115. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
116. Gigi by Colette
117. Barn Burning by William Faulkner
118. The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge
119. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
120. The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Title story
121. The Double-Bass by Patrick Süskind
122. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 48pp, 1835
123. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
124. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
125, Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
126. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
127. 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
128. A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
129. Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
130. Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
131. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
132. Passing by Nella Larsen
133. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
134. R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
135. A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
136. The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather
137. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter
138. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
139. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers Title story
140. The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by George MacDonald Title story
141. The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
142. The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov
143. The Francis Spaight by Jack London
144. The Pedersen Kid by William H. Gass, found in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, 67 pages, 1968
145. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
146. The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, 81pp, 1900
147. Brooksmith by Henry James
148. A Dog of Flanders by Ouida, 80pp, 1872
149. Philomel Cottage: A Short Story by Agatha Christie, 100pp, 1924
150, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, 103pp, 1940
151. Drifting by Joris-Karl Huysmans, 109pp, 1882
152. How It Is by [author:D.H. LawrenceSamuel Beckett|1433597], 111pp, 1961
153. Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin 30pp, 1957
154. The Cabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore, 26pp, 1892
155. The Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence, 80pp, 1911
156. A Party Down at the Square by Ralph Ellison, 10pp, 1997
157. Miss Brill and Other Stories: By Katherine Mansfield - Illustrated Title story by Katherine Mansfield, 40pp, 1920
158. November by Gustave Flaubert
159, Viy by Nikolai Gogol
160. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, 5-10pp, 1973
161. The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
162. The Catbird Seat by James Thurber, 32pp, 1942
163. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 58pp, 1922
164. A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
165. R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
166. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
167. Big Blonde and Other Stories title story by Dorothy Parker
168. Tell Me a Riddle title story by Tillie Olsen
169. The Son's Veto by Thomas Hardy
170. The Real Thing: By Henry James - Illustrated
171. The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
172. Counterparts by James Joyce
173. The Swimmer by John Cheever
174. Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
175. The Shadow Hans Christian Andersen
176. The Magic Barrel Title Story by Bernard Malamud
177. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
178. The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder
179. The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
180. The Swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen
181. The Little Photographer by Daphne du Maurier
182. The Blue Cross, First story in The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
183. The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
184. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
185. For Esme - With Love And Squalor by J.D. Salinger
186. In a Café: Selected Stories title story by Mary Josephine Lavin
187. The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
188. With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. byRudyard Kipling
189. Rear Window title story by Cornell Woolrich
190. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
191. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
192. The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
193. The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
194. Fences by August Wilson
195. The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
196. The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell
197. On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
198. Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
199. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

Master List. 1-99

1. Youth, a Narrativeby Joseph Conrad
2. The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
3. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
4. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Title story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken
6. A&P by John Updike in The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
7. Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
8. Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud
10. How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol
11. Afterward by Edith Wharton
12. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
13. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
14. The Sailor Boy's Tale by Isak Dinesen
15. The Garden Party in The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
16. The Duel by Joseph Conrad
17. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
18. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
19. The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street by Hortense Calisher
20. Revelation (1964) by Flannery O'Connor, found in The Complete Stories
21. Who Goes There in Who Goes There? and Other Stories by John W. Campbell Jr.
22. Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
23. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
24. The Game by
25. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
26. The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte, found in The American Short Story
27. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
28. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Title story by Flannery O'Connor
29. Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
30. The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
31. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
32. The Legend of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
33. Don't Look Now and Other Stories, Title story by Daphne du Maurier
34. Field Work by
35. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
36. Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. For The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
38. A Deal in Wheat: And Other Stories of the New and Old West Title Story by Frank Norris
39. The Polar Express
40, The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
42. Kholstomer
43. A Painful Case
44. The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb
45. The Case of the Registered Letter
46. Morning In The Burned House
47. A Respectable Woman
48. Dreamtigers
49. Xingu
50. The Bet by Anton Chekhov
51. A Pair of Silk Stockings
52. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, Title story
53. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
54. King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain, 112, 1905
55. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
56. Reunion in The Stories of John Cheever
57. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
58. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
59. Anthem by Ayn Rand
60. Miss Lonelyhearts
61. The Willows
62. The Prophet
63. The Escaped Cock
64. A Jury Of Her Peers
65. The Gifts of War by Margaret Drabble
66. A White Heron
67. Futility or the Wreck of the Titan
68. The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini
69. So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
70. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
71. Life of a Good-for-nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
72. Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
73. The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed
74. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
75. The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
76. Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
77. Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
78. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
79, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
80. The Devil's Pool by George Sand
81. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
82. The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
83. Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert
84. The Death of Oliver Becaille by Émile Zola
85. The Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant
86. The Symposium by Plato
87. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
88. Nightfall Title story by Isaac Asimov
89. An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity by Bertrand Russell
90. The Nine Billion Names of God Title story by Arthur C. Clarke
91. The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges in The Garden of Forking Paths
92. Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges, in The Garden of Forking Paths
93. The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges in The Garden of Forking Paths
94, How To Become A Writer by Lorrie Moore
95. The Town Poor by Sarah Orne Jewett
96. Peter by Willa Cather in PDF form, 1892
97. Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson
98. An Imaginative Woman and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy Title story, 1893
99. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Ways of listing your selected stories.
If a story is listed by Goodreads, you only have to post the story. Moderator can then follow up on number of pages and year published.
Examples
The Old Man and the Sea
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

If your story selection comes from an anthology, please provide the title of the collection, the number of pages, as well as the publication date.
Examples
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte, found in The American Short Story, 10 pages, 1869

The Pedersen Kid by William H. Gass, found in Still Wild : Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present, 67 pages, 1968

Revelation (1964) by Flannery O'Connor, found in The Complete Stories, 22 pages, 1971

1. Each member will be allowed to select 10 titles. Moderators will be excluded from this limitation. Members posting stories for the Short Story/Novella Master List will need to check that titles are eligible as listed below. Titles already existing on our group bookshelf, in any category with fewer than 130 pages are not eligible. A copy of the text must be reasonably available for members and available in English. Moderators may disallow a selection if we feel a copy is not readily available.


Group Book Shelf

3. Only books up to 130 pages maximum are eligible for nomination. If a story slightly exceeds this number of pages the moderator will decide if the story will pass through to the poll, (probably a coin toss)

4. A story's size will be determined by using the Goodreads default edition, if available. If on the first page, the majority other editions listed have a larger number of pages listed then the default edition the story will be ruled ineligible. If the story has no Goodreads edition and is a part of a larger collection, please identify the collection title, the number of pages and the year published.

5. Only stories/books that were published before 2005 are eligible to be nominated in this section.

6. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

7. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I want to again stress the importance of your selections being accessible for other members. Short stories are often printed in media that may not be available for many members, magazines, newspapers, etc. The public libraries, Goodreads, Project Gutenberg, Amazon Kindle and other internet sources are all helpful. We all have access to the web or we couldn’t be together as a group.

In an effort to streamline and make easier our short story/novella selection process I have decided to create a master list of short stories/novellas. This master list of short stories will be created using titles provided by members from the below posts. This list will provide the title selections that will be used during the group pre-selection/nomination period, 1st-14th each month. From the master list 10 titles will be randomly selected. These ten will be set up in our pre-selection/nomination thread. Members will be allowed one second/vote, the top five titles will be moved to the monthly poll. As in the past, this will still give active members greater influence about what is selected and moves forward to the poll. There will always be more voters than nominators.

Our short story category is slightly over seven and a half years old. In that period, we have selected and read a little over 90 titles.

I think most will agree that there are usually multiple sources available for securing a short story read. I ask that you stick to common and easily accessible sources for members to locate and read the story you nominate for this new list. When listing a story be as helpful as possible in listing ways of members locating a copy.

Welcome Elisa.

Poll winner Children of the Corn by Stephen King

These seven are moving forward to the poll


The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 103 pages, 1970

Children of the Corn by Stephen King, 50 pages, 1977

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 24 pages, 1946

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, 1980

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, 18 pages, 1948

Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott, 117 pages, 1866

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, 52 pages, 1834