Short Stories

We’re here to help unpack the themes, motifs, and main ideas behind some of the greatest work of short fiction, to help you understand the stories of Faulkner, Hemingway, O’Connor, and more.

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B

Baldwin, James
- Sonny's Blues
Bambara, Toni Cade
- The Lesson
Barthelme, Donald
- The School
Bierce, Ambrose
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Borges, Jorge Luis
- The Library of Babel
- The Garden of Forking Paths
Boyle, T.C.
- Greasy Lake
Bradbury, Ray
- All Summer in a Day
- A Sound of Thunder
Butler, Octavia E.
- Speech Sounds

C

Canin, Ethan
- The Palace Thief
Carver, Raymond
- Cathedral
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cather, Willa
- Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament
Cheever, John
- The Swimmer
Chekhov, Anton
- The Lady with the Dog
Chesnutt, Charles W.
- The Passing of Grandison
Chiang, Ted
- Story of Your Life
Chopin, Kate
Cisneros, Sandra
- Eleven
- Woman Hollering Creek
Cofer, Judith Ortíz
- American History
Collier, Eugenia
- Marigolds
Conan Doyle, Arthur
- The Red-Headed League
- A Scandal in Bohemia
Connell, Richard
- The Most Dangerous Game
Cortázar, Julio
- Continuity of Parks
- House Taken Over
Crane, Stephen
- The Open Boat

D

Dahl, Roald
- The Landlady
de Maupassant, Guy
- The Necklace
du Maurier, Daphne
- The Birds

E

Ellison, Harlan
- I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Erdrich, Louise
- The Red Convertible

F

G

Glaspell, Susan
- A Jury of Her Peers
Gogol, Nikolai
- The Overcoat
Guin, Ursula K. Le
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

H

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- The Birthmark
- Young Goodman Brown
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, O.
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Last Leaf
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
- The Sandman
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King
Hughes, Langston
- Thank You, M'am
Hurst, James
- The Scarlet Ibis
Hurston, Zora Neale
- Spunk

I

Irving, Washington
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

J

K

Kafka, Franz
Kincaid, Jamaica
- Girl
King, Stephen
- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Kipling, Rudyard
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

L

Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Interpreter of Maladies
- A Temporary Matter
Lawrence, D. H.
- Odour of Chrysanthemums
Lawrence, D.H.
- The Rocking-Horse Winner
Leonard, Elmore
- Three-Ten to Yuma
Lovecraft, H. P.
- The Call of Cthulhu

M

Mansfield, Katherine
Márquez, Gabriel García
- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Shiloh
Maugham, W. Somerset
- Salvatore
Melville, Herman
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Benito Cereno
Morrison, Toni
- Recitatif
Munro, Alice
- The Bear Came Over the Mountain
- Passion
Murakami, Haruki
- Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
- The Elephant Vanishes

O

O’Connor, Flannery
O'Flaherty, Liam
- The Sniper
Oates, Joyce Carol
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Olsen, Tillie
- I Stand Here Ironing

P

Poe, Edgar Allan
Porter, Katherine Anne
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Proulx, Annie
- Brokeback Mountain

R

Roupenian, Kristen
- Cat Person

S

Salinger, J. D.
- A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Steinbeck, John
- The Chrysanthemums
Stevenson, Robert Louis
- The Body Snatcher
Stockton, Frank R.
- The Lady, or the Tiger?
Strasser, Todd
- On the Bridge

T

Thurber, James
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Twain, Mark
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

U

Updike, John
- A&P

V

Vonnegut, Kurt
- Harrison Bergeron

W

Walker, Alice
- Everyday Use
Welty, Eudora
- Why I Live at the P.O.
Williams, William Carlos
- The Use of Force
Wolff, Tobias
- Bullet in the Brain
Woolf, Virginia
- Kew Gardens
- A Haunted House
Wright, Richard
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man