Collections of Short Stories

1.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 152,911 ratings
2.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,149 ratings
3.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
4.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,486 ratings
5.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,039 ratings
6.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.02 avg rating — 74,799 ratings
7.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 279,643 ratings
8.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,389 ratings
9.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 4.29 avg rating — 37,556 ratings
10.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 214,391 ratings
11.
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 4.22 avg rating — 21,772 ratings
12.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,696 ratings
13.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,252 ratings
14.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,034 ratings
15.
The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man 4.13 avg rating — 105,369 ratings
16.
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe 4.20 avg rating — 5,287 ratings
17.
Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,963 ratings
18.
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
19.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,587 ratings
20.
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.29 avg rating — 108,182 ratings
21.
Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating — 75,857 ratings
22.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth 4.14 avg rating — 95,613 ratings
23.
Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House 4.13 avg rating — 63,548 ratings
24.
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions 4.01 avg rating — 73,249 ratings
25.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories 4.02 avg rating — 22,468 ratings
26.
Night Shift
Night Shift 4.04 avg rating — 194,127 ratings
27.
Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 36,326 ratings
28.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,238 ratings
29.
Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew 3.97 avg rating — 134,445 ratings
30.
The Short Stories
The Short Stories 4.22 avg rating — 14,876 ratings
31.
Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,363 ratings
32.
Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected 3.97 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
33.
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 82,493 ratings
34.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Nightmares and Dreamscapes 3.95 avg rating — 86,668 ratings
35.
Everything's Eventual
Everything's Eventual 3.97 avg rating — 107,008 ratings
36.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 3.95 avg rating — 71,649 ratings
37.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales 4.17 avg rating — 74,601 ratings
38.
After the Quake
After the Quake 3.77 avg rating — 57,214 ratings
39.
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft 4.23 avg rating — 9,484 ratings
40.
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating — 18,092 ratings
41.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating — 46,668 ratings
42.
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
by: O. Henry
4.12 avg rating — 6,239 ratings
43.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,395 ratings
44.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 4.21 avg rating — 22,038 ratings
45.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,105 ratings
46.
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 16,588 ratings
47.
The Elephant Vanishes
The Elephant Vanishes 3.83 avg rating — 56,811 ratings
48.
Four Past Midnight
Four Past Midnight 3.95 avg rating — 114,554 ratings
49.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
50.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
51.
Self-Help
Self-Help 4.11 avg rating — 15,451 ratings
52.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,642 ratings
53.
Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating — 16,399 ratings
54.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,958 ratings
55.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,471 ratings
56.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
No One Belongs Here More Than You 3.80 avg rating — 43,865 ratings
57.
Selected Short Stories
Selected Short Stories 4.14 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
58.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven 4.09 avg rating — 26,665 ratings
59.
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka 4.09 avg rating — 20,571 ratings
60.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 320,277 ratings
61.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 259,621 ratings
62.
Tenth of December
Tenth of December 3.98 avg rating — 80,044 ratings
63.
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.17 avg rating — 33,613 ratings
63.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,240 ratings
65.
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 4.19 avg rating — 19,017 ratings
66.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,625 ratings
67.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories 3.84 avg rating — 42,534 ratings
68.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt 3.86 avg rating — 8,013 ratings
69.
To Build a Fire and Other Stories
To Build a Fire and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 5,077 ratings
70.
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck 4.23 avg rating — 48,402 ratings
71.
Forty Stories
Forty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 3,508 ratings
72.
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Blow-Up and Other Stories 4.20 avg rating — 7,837 ratings
73.
How to Breathe Underwater
How to Breathe Underwater 3.95 avg rating — 6,554 ratings
74.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol 4.35 avg rating — 15,180 ratings
75.
Just After Sunset
Just After Sunset 3.88 avg rating — 59,315 ratings
76.
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,253 ratings
77.
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,741 ratings
78.
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 4.12 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
79.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
80.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories
by: O. Henry
4.17 avg rating — 17,666 ratings
81.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.46 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
82.
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 4.30 avg rating — 7,578 ratings
83.
Knockemstiff
Knockemstiff 3.98 avg rating — 10,947 ratings
84.
Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
85.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves 3.79 avg rating — 13,005 ratings
86.
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 4.23 avg rating — 219,184 ratings
87.
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.85 avg rating — 30,140 ratings
88.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 4.02 avg rating — 115,390 ratings
89.
Dear Life
Dear Life 3.75 avg rating — 39,627 ratings
90.
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote 4.18 avg rating — 6,398 ratings
91.
M Is for Magic
M Is for Magic 3.81 avg rating — 18,805 ratings
91.
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 3.89 avg rating — 4,892 ratings
93.
Syrian Brides
Syrian Brides 4.21 avg rating — 248 ratings
94.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.17 avg rating — 8,691 ratings
95.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer 4.38 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
96.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 4.30 avg rating — 6,277 ratings
97.
Lost in the City
Lost in the City 4.07 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
98.
The Night in Question
The Night in Question 4.16 avg rating — 5,919 ratings
99.
Elbow Room
Elbow Room 3.71 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
100.
In Persuasion Nation
In Persuasion Nation 4.09 avg rating — 10,333 ratings
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