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Rank Title Author Added

1

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,985 members

122 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

4,027 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

3

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,241 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

2,384 members

53 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Get in Trouble: Stories

1,149 members

75 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

6

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

569 members

32 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

7

The Things They Carried

14,452 members

393 reviews

4.2

Member: dylan555

8

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,130 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

9

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,966 members

623 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

10

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

7,935 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

11

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,961 members

121 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

12

Full Dark, No Stars

by Stephen King

5,810 members

221 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

13

Just After Sunset

by Stephen King

5,459 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

14

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,154 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,098 members

98 reviews

4.1

Member: dylan555

16

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

3,842 members

185 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

17

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

3,671 members

93 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,386 members

37 reviews

4.2

Member: dylan555

19

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,298 members

38 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dylan555

20

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,091 members

96 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

Birds of America: Stories

by Lorrie Moore

2,462 members

49 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

22

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,378 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,161 members

109 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

24

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

by George Saunders

2,040 members

76 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

25

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,577 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

Strange Weather

1,276 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,213 members

11 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

by Katherine Anne Porter

1,166 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

29

You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories

by Adam Haslett

1,121 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

30

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

1,070 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

31

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

by Katherine Anne Porter

926 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

Men and Cartoons: Stories

by Jonathan Lethem

909 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dylan555

33

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

by Nathan Englander

787 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

34

Fortune Smiles: Stories

by Adam Johnson

706 members

44 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

35

Servants of the Map: Stories

by Andrea Barrett

667 members

11 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

36

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

570 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylan555

37

by Bryan Washington

446 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Afterparties: Stories

by Anthony Veasna So

414 members

19 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

by Jean Stafford

367 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

40

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

by Tom Perrotta

357 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

41

Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates

234 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

42

Bear and His Daughter

by Robert Stone

206 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: dylan555

43

Collected Stories of Reynolds Price

by Reynolds Price

181 members

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

44

Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories

by Lydia Millet

178 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylan555

45

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth

by Daniel Mason

138 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: dylan555

46

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

9,894 members

227 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: sturlington
December 2013
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