Favourite Short Stories

Rip van Winkle [short story]

1,056 members

56 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Myyst, steller0707, Nonconformisto, paul.leyland

3

by Washington Irving

1,572 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Myyst, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [short story]

by Washington Irving

5,056 members

144 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Myyst, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Tell-Tale Heart [short story]

The Lottery [short story]

1,137 members

40 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Myyst, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

by Shirley Jackson

1,435 members

54 reviews

4

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, paul.leyland

7

Story of Your Life {novella}

by Ted Chiang

59 members

2 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

The Fall of the House of Usher [short story]

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (short story)

1,335 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Myyst, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,902 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Cecrow, steller0707
Explanations: Cecrow: It's a whole collection, I realize. Within it I'd especially nominate "The Library of Babel".

10

by Arthur Conan Doyle

72 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: abbottthomas, paul.leyland

11

The Ones Who Stay and Fight

by N. K. Jemisin

5 members

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

12

The Pit and the Pendulum [short story]

596 members

13 reviews

3.8

3 Members: abbottthomas, aulsmith, Myyst

13

The Reluctant Dragon

by Kenneth Grahame

2,120 members

27 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, cej1027

14

Noon Wine

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

31 members

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

15

Sandkings

by George R. R. Martin

539 members

20 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14,941 members

189 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, Nonconformisto

17

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell

903 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Miss Brill - 3 stories

by Katherine Mansfield

242 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,980 members

167 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Revelation

by Flannery O'Connor

11 members

2 reviews

3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (short story)

by M. R. James

116 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: abbottthomas

22

The Overcoat

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

1,034 members

35 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Myyst, steller0707

23

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

A Scandal in Bohemia [short story]

833 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Myyst, steller0707

24

by Arthur Conan Doyle

276 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Call of Cthulhu [short story]

The Masque of the Red Death [short story]

901 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, steller0707

26

The People of Sand and Slag {novelette}

933 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Paolo Bacigalupi

41 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

28

Coup de gigot et autres histoires à faire peur

by Roald Dahl

36 members

3.8

Member: abbottthomas

29

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones [short story]

by Samuel R. Delany

24 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

30

Bliss and Other Stories

by Katherine Mansfield

823 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: abbottthomas

31

The Necklace {story}

by Guy de Maupassant

166 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: Nonconformisto

32

Always {short story}

by Karen Joy Fowler

9 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

33

Leiningen Versus the Ants - A Radio Script

1 member

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Sorry re "A Radio Script", LT doesn't otherwise list it separately.

34

The Flowers of Aulit Prison {novelette}

by Nancy Kress

16 members

4.2

Member: aulsmith

35

Our Friend Judith

by Doris Lessing

3 members

3

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: aka "Our Friend Judith"

36

Jack {novella}

Edward the Conqueror [short story]

52 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

37

by Roald Dahl

6 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Mountains of Mourning

by Lois McMaster Bujold

560 members

37 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

39

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

8 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: Cecrow

40

Old Mortality

120 Hours of Sodom {story}

8 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Jim Grimsley

2 members

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith

42

The Enduring Chill

by Flannery O'Connor

1 member

3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

No Prisoners {novelette}

by Pat Cadigan

1 member

1 review

5

Member: aulsmith

44

The Lucky Strike {novelette}

by Kim Stanley Robinson

6 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

45

The Wall {short story}

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9 members

1 review

5

Member: aulsmith

46

Summer Wind

by Nancy Kress

8 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

47

Liar! (short story)

by Isaac Asimov

23 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: Cecrow, Myyst,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : I read this recently and didn't think it aged well. It's very misogynist.

48

Out of All Them Bright Stars [short story]

by Nancy Kress

20 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

49

A Billion Eves

by Robert Reed

21 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

50

Classic Short Stories: Unrest-Cure, Sredni Vashtar, Tobermory, Reticence of Lady Anne, Mrs.Packletide's Tiger, Gabriel-Ernest, Lumber Room

by Saki

Member: ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: 'The Reticence of Lady Anne'

51

For Esmé - With Love and Squalor

by J. D. Salinger

109 members

1 review

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Green Hills of Earth [short story]

by Robert A. Heinlein

11 members

3

Member: aulsmith

53

Harrison Bergeron [short story]

by Kurt Vonnegut

291 members

23 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Even the Queen {short story}

The Whisperer in Darkness [novella]

18 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

55

The Last of the Winnebagos {novella}

134 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Winter's Tale [novelette]

66 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

57

Schwarzschild Radius {short story}

4 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

58

The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

8 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: aulsmith

59

Pale Horse, Pale Rider [novella]

415 members

15 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

60

Yellow Card Man (novelette)

17 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Songs Of War [novelette]

by Kit Reed

6 members

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith

62

Hands [short story]

by Sherwood Anderson

9 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Good Hand

by Robert Reed

5 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

64

by Paolo Bacigalupi

25 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

65

The Star {short story}

by Arthur C. Clarke

84 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

66

Computers Don't Argue [short fiction]

by Gordon R. Dickson

21 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: aulsmith

67

MS Fnd in a Lbry

by Hal Draper

3 members

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith

68

The Griffin and the Minor Canon

by Frank R. Stockton

198 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

69

Gilead {novelette}

by Zenna Henderson

6 members

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith

70

Flowers for Algernon [short story]

by Daniel Keyes

74 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

71

Protection [short fiction]

by Maureen F. McHugh

7 members

1 review

4.8

Member: aulsmith

72

Ragged Rock {novella}

by Judith Moffett

1 member

5

Member: aulsmith

73

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? {novella}

by James Jr. Tiptree

177 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

74

The Ballad of Lost C'mell

by Cordwainer Smith

27 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

75

The Women Men Don't See [novelette]

by James Tiptree Jr.

44 members

6 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

76

When It Changed {short story}

by Joanna Russ

23 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

77

Supertoys Last All Summer Long [short story]

by Brian Aldiss

6 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aulsmith

78

Disorder and Early Sorrow

by Thomas Mann

43 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

79

In the Penal Colony [short story]

by Franz Kafka

705 members

13 reviews

4

Member: Myyst

80

The Black Cat [short story]

The Gold Bug [short story]

655 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

81

The Queen of Spades

by Alexander Pushkin

611 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

82

498 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Myyst

83

Ligeia [short story]

137 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

84

The Oval Portrait

116 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Myyst

85

Berenice [short story]

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar [short story]

111 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Myyst

86

A Descent into the Maelström [short story]

105 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Myyst

87

William Wilson [short story]

100 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Myyst

88

All Summer in a Day

by Ray Bradbury

94 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: Myyst

89

The Haunter of the Dark [short story]

93 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Myyst

90

The Cats of Ulthar [short story]

85 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Myyst

91

The Other Gods [short story]

73 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Myyst

92

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall [short story]

64 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: Myyst

93

The Premature Burial [short story]

62 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: Myyst

94

Vaster than empires and more slow [short fiction]

60 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Myyst

95

by Ursula K. Le Guin

55 members

4.1

Member: Myyst

96

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment [short story]

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

53 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Myyst

97

Celephaïs [short story]

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

50 members

5 reviews

3

Member: Myyst

98

MS. Found in a Bottle [short story]

46 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Myyst

99