This is a list of some of the most important short stories ever written in the world of English Language. I prepare this list for my course of study in university: Short Story.
List of Short Stories
American Authors
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1819-1820): Short Stories and assays Collection
“Rip Van Winkle”
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
“Roger Malvin's Burial”
“Rappaccini's Daughter”
“Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839)
“The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842)
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
“The Cask of Amontillado” (1846)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (A Story of Wall-Street) – (1853)
“Benito Cereno” (1855)
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett (1842-1914?),
“Cobwebs from an Empty Skull” (1874)
“The Devil's Dictionary” (1911)
“The Field’s Delight” (1872)
“The Midst of Life” (1898)
“The Devil’s Dies” (1906)
“An Occurrence of Owl Greets Bridge”
Henry James (1843-1916)
“The Real Thing”
“The Beats in the Jungle”
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
“The Story of an hour”
“The Storm”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“At the ‘Cadian Ball”
O. Henry (1862-1910)
“The Gift of the Magi”
“The Furnished Room”
“The Ransom of Red Chief”
Edith Wharton (1862-1931)
“The Other Two” - 1904
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
“The Open Boat and Other Stories” (1898) – Short Story Collection
“The Open Boat”
“The blue Hotel”
“An Episode of War”
London, Jack (1876-1916)
“The Son of the Wolf” (1900) – Short Story Collection
“The Star Rover” (1915) – Short Story Collection
“John Bawleycorn” (1913)
“The Iron Heel” (1907)
London, Jack (1876-1916)
“The Son of the Wolf” (1900) – Short Story Collection
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
“Flowering Judas” (1930) – short Story Collection
“Pale Horse, Pale Riders” (1939)
Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key) (1896-1940)
“Flappers and Philosophers” (1920) - Short Story Collection
“Tales of the Jazz Age” (1922) - Short Story Collection
“Winter Dreams”
“Babylon Revisited”
Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
“Go Down Moses” (1942) - Short Story Collection
“The Bear”
“A Rose for Emily”
“That Evening Sun”
“Barn Burning”
James (Grower) Thurber (1894-1961)
“Is Sex Necessary?” (1929)
“The Secret Life of Walter Milty”
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) – Short Story Collection
In Our Time (1924) – Short Story Collection
Men without Women (1927) – Short Story Collection
“The Killers”
Winner Take Nothing (1933) – Short Story Collection
“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Steinbeck, John Ernst (1902-1968)
The Pastures of Heaven (1932) – Short Stories
“The Leader of the People”
O’Hara, John (1905-1970)
“The Doctor's Son and Other Stories” (1935) - Short Story Collection
“Pal Joey” (1940)
Saroyan, William (1908-1981)
“My Name Is Aram” (1940) - Short Story Collection
Salinger, J. D. (1919- )
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
“Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”
“Teddy”
“Just Before the War with the Eskimos”
Ray(mond Douglas) Bradbury (1920- )
“The Day It Rained Forever”
“R Is for Rocket”
“The Martin Chronicles” (1950 – Filmed 1966)
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” – 1953
“Revelation” – 1964
“Parker’s Back” – 1964
“Good Country People” – 1955
Barthelme, Donald (1931-1989)
“On Angels"
"Brain Damage"
"A Shower of Gold"
"Daumier"
"Sermons"
"On Angels"
"The death of God left the angels in a strange position."
John Updike (1932- )
“A & P”
“The Rumor”
“Separating”
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938- )
By the North Gate (1963) – Short Story Collection
Upon the Sweeping Flood (1966) – Short Story Collection
“The Wheel of Love” (1970) – Short Story Collection
Carver, Raymond (1939-1988)
Put Yourself in My Shoes – 1974 – Short Story Collection
“The Bath”
“A Small, Good Thing”
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (1981)
“Cathedral” (1983)
“Where I’m Calling From” (1988)
List of Short Stories
British and Irish Authors
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
“Mrs. Warren’s Profession”
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
“The Nigger of the Narcissus” (1897)
“The Secret Agent” (1907)
“Under Western Eyes” (1911)
“Victory” (1915)
“Heart of Darkness” (1902)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
“The Sign of Four” (1890)
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892)
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902)
“His Last Bow” (1917)
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933)
“The Man of Property” (1906)
“Indian Summer of a Forsyte”
H(ector) H(ugh) Munro, Saki (1870-1916)
“Reginald” (1904)
“Beasts and Supper beats” (1912)
“The Unbearable Bassington” (1914)
“When William Came” (1913)
“Esmé”
Maugham, W(illiam) Somerset (1874-1965)
“Miss Thompson”
The Trembling of a Leaf – 1921 – Short Story Collection
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Dubliners (1914) – Short Story Collection, most famous among short stories in this book “The Dead”
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
“The Mark on the Wall”
Monday or Tuesday (1921) – Short Story Collection
Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930)
“Odour of Chrysanthemums” (1911, 1914)
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”
Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)
“In a German Pension” (1911)
“Bliss” (1920)
“The Garden Party” (1922)
“The Dove's Nest” (1923)
“Something Childish” (1924)
“Je ne Parle pas Francais”
“Prelude”
“The Daughter’s of the Late Colonel”
Frank O’Connor
“My Oedipus Complex”
“The guests of the Nation”
“The Christmas Morning”
George Orwell (1903-1950)
“Shooting an Elephant”
H(rnest) H(erbert) Bates (1905-1974)
“Fair Stood the Wind for France” (1944)
“The Jacaranda Tree” (1949)
“The Darling Buds of May” (1958)
