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Short stories

The best books on short stories, ranked by quality.

  1. 25
    Bestiario Julio Cortázar · 1951
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (10 ratings)
  2. 26
    The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe · 1922
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (21 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Gothic Short stories
  3. 27
    White nights Fiódor Dostoievski · 1848
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (25 ratings)
  4. 28
    Mirrorshades Bruce Sterling · 1986
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 (5 ratings)
  5. 29
    The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1913
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (4 ratings)
  6. 30
    American Indian Stories Zitkála-Šá, Desmond gahan · 1921
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (3 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Memoir Classics Short stories
  7. 31
    The Son of the Wolf Jack London · 1900
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (2 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Short stories
  8. 32
    The king in yellow Robert W. Chambers · 1895
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (18 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
  9. 33
    The snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories Ernest Hemingway · 1927
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (8 ratings)
  10. 34
    Dubliners James Joyce · 1914
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (83 ratings)
  11. 35
    Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock · 1900
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (2 ratings)
  12. 36
    A Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll · 1881
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  13. 37
    Short Fiction Robert Sheckley · 2021
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  14. 38
    Short Fiction H.P. Lovecraft · 2018
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  15. 39
    Short Fiction Ernest Hemingway · 2022
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  16. 40
    The empty house Algernon Blackwood · 1906
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  17. 41
    Three Lives Gertrude Stein · 1909
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (6 ratings)
  18. 42
    Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany · 1915
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
  19. 43
    In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
  20. 44
    The Gods of Pegāna Lord Dunsany · 1905
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
  21. 45
    Love and Freindship Jane Austen · 1995
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (8 ratings)
  22. 46
    In the Midst of Life Ambrose Bierce, A Bierce · 1891
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
  23. 47
    Lost Face Jack London · 1910
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Short stories
  24. 48
    Memoirs of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc · 1924
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
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