Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Great Short Short Books
595 books — 550 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,984 books — 2,109 voters

Dubliners by James JoyceNine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Short Story Collections
1,611 books — 931 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Arnolfini Art Mysteries by Rich DiSilvioThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Best Fiction Short Stories
676 books — 405 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best American Short Story Collections
133 books — 72 voters