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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 — 342,557 ratings — published 1892
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 745 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,277 ratings — published 1948
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 507 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.24 — 118,461 ratings — published 1843
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 456 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.37 — 50,238 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,358,461 ratings — published 1915
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,264 ratings — published 1846
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.11 — 99,911 ratings — published 1905
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.85 — 84,448 ratings — published 1839
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 326 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,390 ratings — published 2002
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,868 ratings — published 1999
The Egg (ebook)
by (shelved 320 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,509 ratings — published 2009
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 316 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 117,449 ratings — published 2013
The Most Dangerous Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,744 ratings — published 1924
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,183 ratings — published 2017
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,420 ratings — published 1914
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.55 — 149,553 ratings — published 2014
The Black Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 54,962 ratings — published 1843
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.78 — 149,282 ratings — published 1820
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,109 ratings — published 1842
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 253 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.27 — 107,518 ratings — published 2019
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 235 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,153 ratings — published 1956
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 153,395 ratings — published 1953
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 80,509 ratings — published 2013
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (ebook)
by (shelved 222 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,512 ratings — published 1890
The Answer Is No (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 221 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.92 — 100,166 ratings — published 2024
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 294,351 ratings — published 1848
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.03 — 508,383 ratings — published 2008
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 220 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,391 ratings — published 1928
Harrison Bergeron (ebook)
by (shelved 219 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,110 ratings — published 1961
The Story of an Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,168 ratings — published 1894
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 75,499 ratings — published 1981
Evidence of the Affair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.86 — 207,882 ratings — published 2018
Hills Like White Elephants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,653 ratings — published 1927
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,825 ratings — published 1853
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,286 ratings — published 2016
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
by (shelved 205 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,208 ratings — published 2020
My Evil Mother (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 195 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.87 — 87,512 ratings — published 2022
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,530 ratings — published 1842
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,632 ratings — published 1979
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.57 — 76,643 ratings — published 1922
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,940 ratings — published 1949
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,887 ratings — published 2015
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,833 ratings — published 2019
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,327 ratings — published 2022
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
by (shelved 171 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,193 ratings — published 1902
Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,469 ratings — published 1997
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,468 ratings — published 2014
To Build a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as short-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,012 ratings — published 1902
The Overcoat (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,543 ratings — published 1842
The Fall Risk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as short-story)
avg rating 4.08 — 159,525 ratings — published 2025
“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
― If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
― If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
