Short story collections
Browse books classified as short stories, with reading profiles and details about each collection.
89 book guides · Showing 49–89

The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
30 pages

Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
208 pages

If It Bleeds
Stephen King
448 pages

The Tuesday Club Murders
Agatha Christie
256 pages

Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
208 pages

The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
240 pages

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
368 pages

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
112 pages

Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
320 pages

The October Country
Ray Bradbury
352 pages

The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
312 pages

Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
280 pages

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
184 pages

The Lost Stories
John Flanagan
464 pages

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
336 pages

Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
160 pages

The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969
Jorge Luis Borges
286 pages

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez
146 pages

Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
272 pages

Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski
204 pages

The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
704 pages

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener
384 pages

You Like It Darker
Stephen King
512 pages

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
336 pages

Children of the Corn
Stephen King
16 pages

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
320 pages

A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges
128 pages

Pastoralia
George Saunders
224 pages

Oblivion
David Foster Wallace
336 pages

In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
272 pages

In Persuasion Nation
George Saunders
256 pages

Elbow Room
James Alan McPherson
288 pages

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford
512 pages

Girl With Curious Hair
David Foster Wallace
384 pages

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford
272 pages

Orientation and Other Stories
Daniel Orozco
176 pages

The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley
224 pages

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
512 pages

The Oranging of America and Other Stories
Max Apple
152 pages

Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
qntm
107 pages

Women with Men
Richard Ford
256 pages