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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 6066 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,404 ratings — published 1892
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5022 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,589 ratings — published 2017
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4719 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,721 ratings — published 1999
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 4335 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.25 — 131,720 ratings — published 2002
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3677 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,557 ratings — published 1948
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3673 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 84,429 ratings — published 2013
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 3601 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.27 — 117,226 ratings — published 2019
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3588 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,416 ratings — published 1914
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3436 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,185 ratings — published 1979
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3064 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,359 ratings — published 1981
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2886 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,164 ratings — published 1948
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2686 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,836 ratings — published 1949
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2581 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,407 ratings — published 2015
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2566 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,457 ratings — published 2016
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2491 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,457 ratings — published 1915
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 2462 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,206 ratings — published 2006
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2428 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.24 — 130,705 ratings — published 1843
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2159 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,805 ratings — published 1998
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2147 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 57,320 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2123 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,323 ratings — published 1955
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2092 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 68,719 ratings — published 2016
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 2050 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 517,087 ratings — published 2008
The Illustrated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2023 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 110,387 ratings — published 1951
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2005 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.73 — 131,863 ratings — published 2014
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2001 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 82,990 ratings — published 1944
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1973 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,994 ratings — published 2015
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1971 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,925 ratings — published 2008
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1931 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.73 — 45,992 ratings — published 2017
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1927 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 292,577 ratings — published 1950
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1913 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 69,397 ratings — published 2009
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1894 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.74 — 40,919 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1892 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,347 ratings — published 1971
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 1860 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,008 ratings — published 1978
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1818 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 46,205 ratings — published 2007
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1757 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,901 ratings — published 1839
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1749 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,501 ratings — published 2013
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 1701 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 333,022 ratings — published 1892
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 1700 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 90,393 ratings — published 1846
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1694 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 44,421 ratings — published 2020
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1629 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.54 — 158,660 ratings — published 2014
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1609 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,607 ratings — published 2008
The Office of Historical Corrections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1587 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,153 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1584 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,359 ratings — published 1849
Homesick for Another World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1573 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.60 — 43,535 ratings — published 2017
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1535 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.10 — 348,054 ratings — published 2017
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1516 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,715 ratings — published 2010
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 1513 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,635 ratings — published 1983
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 1503 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.77 — 60,586 ratings — published 2000
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1501 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,237 ratings — published 2013
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1500 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.11 — 102,757 ratings — published 1905
“Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.”
― Let Them Eat Cake
― Let Them Eat Cake
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
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