RIOT RECOMMENDATION: 53 OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING SHORT STORIES YOU’VE READ

  

Vanessa Diaz 

Nov 2, 2020

 

A Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F Scott Fitzgerald

Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W Somerset Maugham

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

“The Boy Nobody Could Handle” by Kurt Vonnegut

“The Bungalow House” by Thomas Ligotti

By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain by Joe Hill

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe; 

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Sharyn McCrumb, 

Ford County by John Gresham

Fox 8 by George Saunders;

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

“The Human Chair” by Edogawa Ranpo

“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado

Indian Country by Dorothy Johnson

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T Kingfisher

“The Lady or The Tiger? by Frank Stockton”

“The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair” by Ray Bradbury

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

Night Shift by Stephen King

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Nocturnes: 5 Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Some Soul to Keep by J. California Cooper

The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister by Stefan Bachmann

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K Le Guin

Tobermory and Other Stories by Saki

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

“A Guest of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor

“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner 

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury

“Bettering Myself” by Ottessa Moshfegh

“Chivalry” by Neil Gaiman

“Green Hills of Earth” by Robert Heinlein

“Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover” by Robert Olen Butler

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

“Oil of Dog” by Ambrose Bierce

“On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien 

“Pilgrims” by Julie Orringer

“Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Under the Still Waters” by NK Jemisin

“The Specialist’s Hat” by Kelly Link

“Stone Boy with Dolphin” by Sylvia Plath

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

“The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood

“Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman