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Short Story Books
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1024 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 342,671 ratings — published 1892
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 745 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,311 ratings — published 1948
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 507 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.24 — 118,494 ratings — published 1843
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 456 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.37 — 50,259 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,358,981 ratings — published 1915
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,274 ratings — published 1846
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.11 — 99,916 ratings — published 1905
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.85 — 84,471 ratings — published 1839
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 326 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,434 ratings — published 2002
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,886 ratings — published 1999
The Egg (ebook)
by (shelved 320 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,521 ratings — published 2009
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 316 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 117,488 ratings — published 2013
The Most Dangerous Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,762 ratings — published 1924
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,202 ratings — published 2017
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,446 ratings — published 1914
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.55 — 149,577 ratings — published 2014
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 54,976 ratings — published 1843
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,114 ratings — published 1842
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.78 — 149,310 ratings — published 1820
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 253 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.27 — 107,555 ratings — published 2019
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 235 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,164 ratings — published 1956
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 153,405 ratings — published 1953
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 80,517 ratings — published 2013
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 294,730 ratings — published 1848
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (ebook)
by (shelved 222 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,518 ratings — published 1890
The Answer Is No (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 221 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.92 — 100,252 ratings — published 2024
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 508,416 ratings — published 2008
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,417 ratings — published 1928
Harrison Bergeron (ebook)
by (shelved 219 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,113 ratings — published 1961
The Story of an Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,170 ratings — published 1894
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 75,518 ratings — published 1981
Evidence of the Affair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.86 — 207,964 ratings — published 2018
Hills Like White Elephants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,656 ratings — published 1927
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,843 ratings — published 1853
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,296 ratings — published 2016
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
by (shelved 205 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,235 ratings — published 2020
My Evil Mother (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 195 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.87 — 87,546 ratings — published 2022
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,539 ratings — published 1842
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,645 ratings — published 1979
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.57 — 76,657 ratings — published 1922
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,952 ratings — published 1949
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,888 ratings — published 2015
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,840 ratings — published 2019
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,362 ratings — published 2022
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
by (shelved 171 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,198 ratings — published 1902
Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,497 ratings — published 1997
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,488 ratings — published 2014
To Build a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,018 ratings — published 1902
The Fall Risk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 154 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 159,713 ratings — published 2025
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,550 ratings — published 1842
“I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity.”
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“What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...”
― Something Childish But Very Natural
― Something Childish But Very Natural
