Short Story Collection Rankings
Fifty of the most celebrated and influential short story collections.
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Dubliners - James Joyce (1914)—
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (1919)—
The Stories of Anton Chekhov (various editions)—
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger (1953)—
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor (1971)—
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (1944)—
The Collected Stories - Gabriel García Márquez (1984)—
The Stories of John Cheever (1978)—
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver (1981)—
Cathedral - Raymond Carver (1983)—
The Collected Stories - Grace Paley (1994)—
Runaway - Alice Munro (2004)—
Dear Life - Alice Munro (2012)—
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro (1979)—
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro (1971)—
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)—
The Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)—
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson (1992)—
Tenth of December - George Saunders (2013)—
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders (1996)—
Pastoralia - George Saunders (2000)—
The Complete Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway (1987) —
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway (1925)—
A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor (1955)—
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor (1965)—
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson (1949)—
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)—
The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka (1983)—
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (1962)—
A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin (2015)—
Bad Behavior - Mary Gaitskill (1988)—
The Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982)—
The Complete Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant (various)—
Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara (1972)—
Her Stories - Virginia Hamilton (1995)—
The Collected Stories - Dylan Thomas (1984)—
The Collected Stories - William Faulkner (1950)—
The Collected Stories - Eudora Welty (1980)—
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (1927)—
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore (1998)—
Self-Help - Lorrie Moore (1985)—
For Esme—with Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger (1953)—
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (1979)—
Lives of the Saints - Nino Ricci (1990)—
The Collected Short Stories - Somerset Maugham (1951)—
Selected Stories - Mavis Gallant (1996)—
Obscene Bird of Night - José Donoso (stories)—
Varieties of Disturbance - Lydia Davis (2007)—
Can't and Won't - Lydia Davis (2014)—
Florida - Lauren Groff (2018)—