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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,444 ratings — published 1892
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 110 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.25 — 130,046 ratings — published 2002
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,905 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,503,964 ratings — published 1915
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 81 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,801 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,577 ratings — published 2017
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 79 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.37 — 56,255 ratings — published 1973
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,518 ratings — published 1981
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.35 — 39,993 ratings — published 2016
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 68 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.24 — 129,158 ratings — published 1843
Tenth of December (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.98 — 83,917 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,333 ratings — published 1999
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,709 ratings — published 1979
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,158 ratings — published 2006
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 54 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.52 — 31,225 ratings — published 1956
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.06 — 407,125 ratings — published 1848
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,861 ratings — published 1846
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.11 — 394,984 ratings — published 2017
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.55 — 157,359 ratings — published 2014
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,620 ratings — published 2013
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,327 ratings — published 2015
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,006 ratings — published 1839
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,354 ratings — published 1949
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,664 ratings — published 1948
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,868 ratings — published 2012
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.14 — 243,912 ratings — published 1886
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.79 — 45,951 ratings — published 2007
Harrison Bergeron (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,503 ratings — published 1961
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,351,088 ratings — published 1952
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,555,849 ratings — published 1943
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.83 — 182,394 ratings — published 1914
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,713,465 ratings — published 1945
The Illustrated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.13 — 109,747 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,477,747 ratings — published 1942
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.05 — 48,708 ratings — published 1842
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.73 — 130,306 ratings — published 2014
Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,203 ratings — published 2019
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,571 ratings — published 2015
Glitches (The Lunar Chronicles, #0.5)
by (shelved 38 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,850 ratings — published 2011
The Most Dangerous Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,829 ratings — published 1924
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,907,063 ratings — published 1937
The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.11 — 102,480 ratings — published 1905
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,749 ratings — published 1998
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.01 — 726,582 ratings — published 2000
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
by (shelved 36 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,574 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,239 ratings — published 1971
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,074 ratings — published 1958
The Answer Is No (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as shorts)
avg rating 3.91 — 125,854 ratings — published 2024
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as shorts)
avg rating 4.08 — 490,740 ratings — published 2021
“He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”
― City of Ashes
I don’t know how to be without you.”
― City of Ashes













