100 Short Stories Everyone Should Read

An ongoing collection of short pieces I think you oughta read in your lifetime (alphabetical)

  1. Bad Latch by Curtis Sittenfeld (2018)

  2. Black Box by Jennifer Egan (2012)

  3. The Black Phone by Joe Hill (2004)

  4. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (1846)

  5. En Famille by Ed Gorman (1996)

  6. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (1961)

  7. Here We Are by Dorothy Parker (1931)

  8. How Far It Could Go by Lawrence Block (1997)

  9. Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson (1938)

  10. Joy by Anton Chekhov (1883)

  11. Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer (2020)

  12. Long Walk to Forever by Kurt Vonnegut (1960)

  13. The Lottery by Dorothy Jackson (1948)

  14. The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu (2011)

  15. Miss Temptation by Kurt Vonnegut (1956)

  16. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (1924)

  17. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin (1973)

  18. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu (2011)

  19. The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle (1905)

  20. The Rocket by Ray Bradbury (1951)

  21. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1942)

  22. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (1950)

  23. Too Many Crooks by Donald E. Westlake (1989)

  24. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (2011)