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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1045 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 347,895 ratings — published 1892
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,971 ratings — published 1948
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 520 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.24 — 120,506 ratings — published 1843
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 469 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.37 — 51,229 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,380,370 ratings — published 1915
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,002 ratings — published 1846
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.85 — 86,255 ratings — published 1839
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 361 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.11 — 100,201 ratings — published 1905
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 330 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 122,743 ratings — published 2002
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,736 ratings — published 1999
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 325 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 119,349 ratings — published 2013
The Egg (ebook)
by (shelved 324 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,040 ratings — published 2009
The Most Dangerous Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,322 ratings — published 1924
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.81 — 104,488 ratings — published 2017
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.55 — 150,791 ratings — published 2014
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.83 — 172,888 ratings — published 1914
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 55,919 ratings — published 1843
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 46,578 ratings — published 1842
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,405 ratings — published 1820
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 255 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.27 — 108,808 ratings — published 2019
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 242 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,495 ratings — published 1956
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 309,593 ratings — published 1848
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 153,870 ratings — published 1953
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 80,968 ratings — published 2013
The Answer Is No (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 229 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.92 — 104,393 ratings — published 2024
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (ebook)
by (shelved 227 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,725 ratings — published 1890
The Story of an Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,401 ratings — published 1894
Harrison Bergeron (ebook)
by (shelved 222 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,366 ratings — published 1961
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 221 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,207 ratings — published 1928
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 509,654 ratings — published 2008
Evidence of the Affair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.86 — 213,078 ratings — published 2018
Hills Like White Elephants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 218 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,900 ratings — published 1927
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 76,258 ratings — published 1981
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,676 ratings — published 1853
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,792 ratings — published 2016
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
by (shelved 205 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,118 ratings — published 2020
My Evil Mother (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 199 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.87 — 88,554 ratings — published 2022
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,753 ratings — published 1842
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,251 ratings — published 1979
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,608 ratings — published 1949
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.57 — 77,211 ratings — published 1922
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)
by (shelved 181 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,190 ratings — published 2019
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,958 ratings — published 2015
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.31 — 31,682 ratings — published 2022
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
by (shelved 175 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,542 ratings — published 1902
The Fall Risk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 165 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 167,718 ratings — published 2025
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,025 ratings — published 1967
Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,074 ratings — published 1997
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,837 ratings — published 2014
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,197 ratings — published 1842
“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
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― If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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― Complete Stories and Poems
