Hearts in Darkness by Laura KayeAdin's Adventure by Andromeda BlissSasha's Story by Andromeda BlissBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaWilling Victim by Cara McKenna
Short Stories Worth Your Short Time
247 books — 143 voters
The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Short Stories of All Time
610 books — 383 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Single Short Story
773 books — 301 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonTales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
Best Fiction Short Stories
665 books — 386 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeWelcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Good short fiction
663 books — 391 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
718 books — 1,449 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Odyssey by Homer1984 by George OrwellThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 106 voters