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Short stories

The best books on short stories, ranked by quality.

  1. 1
    The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien · 1990
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (43 ratings)
    EN War fiction Short stories
  2. 2
    Exhalation Ted Chiang · 2014
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (15 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Short stories
  3. 3
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (174 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Crime & detective Classics Short stories
  4. 4
    The ones who walk away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin · 1973
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (41 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Short stories
  5. 5
    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison · 1972
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (60 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Short stories
  6. 6
    The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe · 1958
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (60 ratings)
    EN Gothic Short stories
  7. 7
    The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury · 1950
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (114 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Classics Short stories
  8. 8
    What we talk about when we talk aboutlove Raymond Carver · 1981
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (19 ratings)
    EN Literary fiction Short stories
  9. 9
    POIROT INVESTIGATES Agatha Christie · 1924
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (20 ratings)
    EN Crime & detective Short stories
  10. 10
    The Innocence of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1583
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (20 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Crime & detective Classics Short stories
  11. 11
    Skeleton Crew Stephen King · 1985
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (36 ratings)
    EN Horror Short stories
  12. 12
    The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe · 1704
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (23 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic Short stories
  13. 13
    A Regency Christmas Feast Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Edith Layton, Barbara Metzger, Patricia Rice, Edith Layton · 1996
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (11 ratings)
    EN Historical romance Short stories
  14. 14
    The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (22 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Gothic Short stories
  15. 15
    The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury · 1951
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (39 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Short stories
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    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce · 1980
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (16 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Short stories
  17. 17
    The October Country Ray Bradbury · 1955
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (8 ratings)
    EN Horror Short stories
  18. 18
    Sword of Destiny Andrzej Sapkowski · 1992
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (41 ratings)
    EN Fantasy Short stories
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    For Esme With Love and Squalor J. D. Salinger · 1948
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (29 ratings)
    EN Classics Short stories
  20. 20
    Welcome to the monkey house Kurt Vonnegut · 1950
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (18 ratings)
    EN Science fiction Short stories
  21. 21
    The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Stephen King · 2015
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (32 ratings)
    EN Horror Short stories
  22. 22
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1988
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (12 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Crime & detective Classics Short stories
  23. 23
    Tenth of December George Saunders, Ben Clark, Yannick Garcia Porres · 2012
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (19 ratings)
    EN Short stories
  24. 24
    Wise and Otherwise - A Salute to life Sudha Murti · 2002
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (3 ratings)
    EN Short stories
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