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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 6116 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 393,523 ratings — published 1892
Her Body and Other Parties (Paperback)
by (shelved 5071 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 111,100 ratings — published 2017
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4760 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,545 ratings — published 1999
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 4399 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,243 ratings — published 2002
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3762 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 123,605 ratings — published 1948
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 3717 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 121,408 ratings — published 2019
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3705 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 85,226 ratings — published 2013
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3635 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 187,776 ratings — published 1914
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3477 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,330 ratings — published 1979
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3093 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 82,565 ratings — published 1981
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2924 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,927 ratings — published 1948
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2730 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,877 ratings — published 1949
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2604 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,121 ratings — published 2016
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2560 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,611 ratings — published 2015
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2536 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,584,527 ratings — published 1915
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2458 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.23 — 133,904 ratings — published 1843
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 2457 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,366 ratings — published 2006
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2195 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 59,514 ratings — published 1973
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2156 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,977 ratings — published 1998
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2155 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,965 ratings — published 1955
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2125 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 71,494 ratings — published 2016
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 2050 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 519,218 ratings — published 2008
The Illustrated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2047 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 111,603 ratings — published 1951
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2044 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,758 ratings — published 1944
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2011 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.73 — 134,206 ratings — published 2014
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1993 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,590 ratings — published 2015
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1978 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 98,461 ratings — published 2008
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1968 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.73 — 47,759 ratings — published 2017
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1954 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 295,545 ratings — published 1950
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1948 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,269 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1917 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,672 ratings — published 1971
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1898 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.74 — 41,150 ratings — published 2011
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 1890 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.04 — 205,435 ratings — published 1978
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1823 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 46,647 ratings — published 2007
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1796 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,644 ratings — published 1839
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1752 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.67 — 24,620 ratings — published 2013
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1724 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,387 ratings — published 2020
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 1721 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 91,534 ratings — published 1846
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 1708 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,311 ratings — published 1892
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1652 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.54 — 161,947 ratings — published 2014
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1623 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,247 ratings — published 2008
The Office of Historical Corrections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1588 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,359 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1586 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 302,376 ratings — published 1849
Homesick for Another World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1583 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.60 — 44,251 ratings — published 2017
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1536 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,707 ratings — published 2013
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1535 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 350,093 ratings — published 2017
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 1523 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.24 — 42,230 ratings — published 1983
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 1511 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.77 — 61,350 ratings — published 2000
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1510 times as short-stories)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,988 ratings — published 2010
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1509 times as short-stories)
avg rating 4.11 — 103,250 ratings — published 1905
“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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“Change his mind. Tell him you're sorry you grilled his shorts." That you're sorry you've got ice running through your veins .”
― Born at Midnight
― Born at Midnight
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