Whether you’re into fantasy, mystery, science fiction or something else, this short story and anthology collection offers a little something for everyone who only wants to read for a little at a time.
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Book of Exemplary Women
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids
Stories
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds
Cathedral
Stories
Moon Songs
The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
Edited by Matthew Cheney
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Wapke
Indigenous Science Fiction Stories
Translated by Katherine Gabinet-Kroo • Edited by Michel Jean
The Lottery and Other Stories
75th Anniversary Edition
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Small Scale Sinners
Tales of the Jazz Age
Grand Union
Stories
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings
The Sea Gives Up the Dead
Stories
The Stories of Richard Bausch
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Someone in Time
Tales of Time-Crossed Romance
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Collected Stories
The Awkward Black Man
The Complete Short Stories
Nine Stories
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
The Best of Roald Dahl
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Her Body and Other Parties
Stories
Seasons of Purgatory
Translated by Sara Khalili
Forty Stories
Translated by Robert Payne
Oddbody
Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Stories of Your Life and Others
Burning Your Boats
The Collected Short Stories
At the Bottom of the River
This Is Paradise
Stories
This Is Not Miami
Translated by Sophie Hughes
Suddenly Light
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
Edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper
It Was the Way She Said It
Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
Edited by Kristine Bell
The Pelican Child
Stories
Dearborn
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
A Library of America Special Publication
Edited by Lisa Yaszek
Under
Stories
This Is How You Lose Her
Florida
Crawl
Stories
Night of the Living Rez
Revelations
Horror Writers for Climate Action
Edited by Seán O'Connor
If I Survive You
Filthy Animals
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Furies
Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
These Things That Walk Behind Me
Ficciones
Translated by Anthony Bonner • Edited by Anthony Kerrigan
Rejection
Fiction
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
Translated by Bruce Fulton • Edited by Bruce Fulton
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
Edited by John Freeman
Fables and Spells
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry
Evening in Paradise
More Stories
The Tower of the Antilles
Make Your Way Home
Stories
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
Dark Matter
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Convergence Problems
| # | Title | Subtitle | Author(s) | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 2009 | ||
| 2 | Book of Exemplary Women | Diana Xin | 2025 | ||
| 3 | Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids | Stories | Leyna Krow | 2025 | |
| 4 | Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds | Christian Moody | 2025 | ||
| 5 | Cathedral | Stories | Raymond Carver | 1989 | |
| 6 | Moon Songs | The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller | Carol Emshwiller | 2025 | |
| 7 | The Awakening and Selected Stories | Kate Chopin | 2003 | ||
| 8 | Wapke | Indigenous Science Fiction Stories | 2022 | ||
| 9 | The Lottery and Other Stories | 75th Anniversary Edition | Shirley Jackson | 2023 | |
| 10 | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Kim Fu | 2022 | ||
| 11 | Small Scale Sinners | Mahreen Sohail | 2025 | ||
| 12 | Tales of the Jazz Age | F Scott Fitzgerald and Anne Margaret Daniel | 2023 | ||
| 13 | Grand Union | Stories | Zadie Smith | 2020 | |
| 14 | The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings | Bret Harte | 2001 | ||
| 15 | The Sea Gives Up the Dead | Stories | Molly Olguín | 2025 | |
| 16 | The Stories of Richard Bausch | Richard Bausch | 2004 | ||
| 17 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Zz Packer | 2004 | ||
| 18 | Someone in Time | Tales of Time-Crossed Romance | Nina Allan, Zen Cho, Rowan Coleman, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Gailey, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Alix E Harrow, Ellen Klages, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Margo Lanagan, Seanan McGuire, Sam J Miller, Catherynne M Valente, Carrie Vaughn, and Sameem Siddiqui | 2022 | |
| 19 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories | Flannery O'Connor | 2019 | ||
| 20 | The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain | Mark Twain | 1984 | ||
| 21 | The Collected Stories | Grace Paley | 2007 | ||
| 22 | The Awkward Black Man | Walter Mosley | 2021 | ||
| 23 | The Complete Short Stories | Katherine Mansfield | 2021 | ||
| 24 | Nine Stories | J D Salinger | 2018 | ||
| 25 | The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel | Amy Hempel | 2007 | ||
| 26 | The Best of Roald Dahl | Roald Dahl | 1990 | ||
| 27 | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | 1998 | ||
| 28 | Her Body and Other Parties | Stories | Carmen Maria Machado | 2017 | |
| 29 | Seasons of Purgatory | Shahriar Mandanipour | 2022 | ||
| 30 | Forty Stories | Anton Chekhov | 1991 | ||
| 31 | Oddbody | Stories | Rose Keating | 2025 | |
| 32 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Ken Liu | 2016 | ||
| 33 | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | 2016 | ||
| 34 | Burning Your Boats | The Collected Short Stories | Angela Carter | 1997 | |
| 35 | At the Bottom of the River | Jamaica Kincaid | 2000 | ||
| 36 | This Is Paradise | Stories | Kristiana Kahakauwila | 2013 | |
| 37 | This Is Not Miami | Fernanda Melchor | 2023 | ||
| 38 | Suddenly Light | Nina Dunic | 2025 | ||
| 39 | The Short Stories of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes | 1997 | ||
| 40 | It Was the Way She Said It | Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom | Terry McMillan | 2025 | |
| 41 | The Pelican Child | Stories | Joy Williams | 2025 | |
| 42 | Dearborn | Ghassan Zeineddine | 2023 | ||
| 43 | The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin | A Library of America Special Publication | 2018 | ||
| 44 | Under | Stories | Glen Pourciau | 2025 | |
| 45 | This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Díaz | 2012 | ||
| 46 | Florida | Lauren Groff | 2018 | ||
| 47 | Crawl | Stories | Max Delsohn | 2025 | |
| 48 | Night of the Living Rez | Morgan Talty | 2022 | ||
| 49 | Revelations | Horror Writers for Climate Action | Priya Sharma, Laird Barron, Richard Chizmar, Philip Fracassi, Gwendolyn Kiste, Clive Barker, Joe R Lansdale, Nuzo Onoh, Joe Hill, Sarah Langan, Stephen King, Sarah Pinborough, Gemma Amor, John Langan, Tananarive Due, T E Grau, Tim Lebbon, Adam Nevill, Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, and Josh Malerman | 2024 | |
| 50 | If I Survive You | Jonathan Escoffery | 2022 | ||
| 51 | Filthy Animals | Brandon Taylor | 2022 | ||
| 52 | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Sidik Fofana | 2023 | ||
| 53 | Furies | Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed | Margaret Atwood | 2024 | |
| 54 | These Things That Walk Behind Me | David Surface | 2024 | ||
| 55 | Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 1994 | ||
| 56 | Rejection | Fiction | Tony Tulathimutte | 2024 | |
| 57 | The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories | 2024 | |||
| 58 | The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story | 2022 | |||
| 59 | Fables and Spells | Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry | Adrienne Maree Brown | 2022 | |
| 60 | Evening in Paradise | More Stories | Lucia Berlin | 2019 | |
| 61 | The Tower of the Antilles | Achy Obejas | 2017 | ||
| 62 | Make Your Way Home | Stories | Carrie R Moore | 2025 | |
| 63 | Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare | Megan Kamalei Kakimoto | 2025 | ||
| 64 | Dark Matter | A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | Sheree R Thomas | 2000 | |
| 65 | Convergence Problems | Wole Talabi | 2024 |