Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace
Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance
Sherwood Anderson / Hands
Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings
Isaac Babel / My First Goose
James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues
Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson
Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat
Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story]
Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum
Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story]
Ambrose Bierce / An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges / The South
Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
T. Coraghessan Boyle / Birnam Wood
Ray Bradbury / August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains
Alejo Carpentier / Journey to The Seed
Raymond Carver / Cathedral
Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing
Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Willa Cather / Paul's Case
John Cheever / The Swimmer
Anton Chekhov / The Darling
Anton Chekhov / The Lady with the Little Dog
Kate Chopin / Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin / The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros / Barbie-Q
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness
Stephen Crane / The Open Boat
Edwidge Danticat / Night Women
Junot Díaz / How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / Her Chinese Husband
Ralph Ellison / Battle Royal
Nathan Englander / What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Louise Erdrich / The Red Convertible
William Faulkner / A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner / That Evening Sun
F. Scott Fitzgerald / Winter Dreams
Mary Gaitskill / The Other Place
Gabriel García Márquez / A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Dagoberto Gilb / Love in L.A.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper
Nikolai Gogol / The Overcoat
Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne / Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway / Hills Like White Elephants
Zora Neale Hurston / the Gilded Six-Bits
Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat
Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle
Shirley Jackson / The Lottery
Henry James / The Real Thing
Sarah Orne Jewett / A White Heron
Franz Kafka / A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis
Etgar Keret / Not Human Beings
Nora Krug / Kamikaze [graphic story]
Jhumpa Lahiri / Interpreter of Maladies
D.H. Lawrence / Odour of Chrysanthemums
D.H. Lawrence / The Rocking Horse Winner
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Doris Lessing / To Room 19
Clarice Lispector / The Smallest Woman in the World
Jack London / To Build a Fire
Katherine Mansfield / Miss Brill
Bobbie Ann Mason / Shiloh
Guy de Maupassant / The Necklace
Herman Melville / Bartleby, the Scrivener
Steven Millhauser / Flying Carpets
Lorrie Moore / Referential
Alice Munro / Age of Faith
Haruki Murakami / UFO in Kushiro
Vladimir Nabokov / Signs and Symbols
Santiago Nazarian / Fish Spine
Joyce Carol Oates / The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates / Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Tim O'Brien / The Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor / Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor / Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor / A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Frank O'Connor / Guests of the Nation
Tillie Olsen / I Stand Here Ironing
Daniel Orozco / Orientation
Julie Otsuka / The Children
Cynthia Ozick / The Shawl
Grace Paley / A Conversation with My Father
Octavio Paz / My Life with the Wave
Edgar Allan Poe / The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe / The Tell-Tale Heart
Katherine Anne Porter / Maria Concepción
W.S. Porter (O. Henry) / The Gift of the Magi
Annie Proulx / Job History
Jamie Quatro / 1.7 To Tennessee
Philip Roth / The Conversion of the Jews
Joe Sacco / From Palestine: Refugeeland [graphic story]
Marjane Satrapi / From Persepolis: The Veil [graphic story]
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh / A Brief Encounter with The Enemy
Leslie Marmon Silko / Yellow Woman
Art Spiegelman / Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History [graphic story]
John Steinbeck / The Chrysanthemums
Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilych
Jean Toomer / Blood-Burning Moon
Luis Alberto Urrea / Father Returns From the Mountain
Helen Maria Viramontes / Miss Clairol
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Harrison Bergeron
Alice Walker / Everyday Use
David Foster Wallace / Everything Is Green
Eudora Welty / A Worn Path
Edith Wharton / The Other Two
John Edgar Wideman / newborn thrown in trash and dies
William Carlos Williams / The Use of Force
Tobias Wolff / Bullet in the Brain
Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens
Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man