Adult Fiction—Short Stories
Short Stories by Popular Authors
Literary Short Story Collections
Jeffrey Archer—And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Elizabeth Berg—The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
Ray Bradbury—Summer Morning, Summer Night
E.L. Doctorow—All the Time in the World
Daphne du Maurier—The Doll
Aleksandar Hemon—Love and Obstacles
Kazuo Ishiguro—Nocturnes
Louis L’Amour—Ghost Towns
Lorrie Moore—Bark
Joyce Carol Oates—Dear Husband
Kurt Vonnegut—Look at the Birdie
Jess Walter—We Live in Water
Lou Beach—420 Characters
Kate Chopin—The Awakening and Selected Stories
John Harvey—A Darker Shade of Blue
Adam Haslett—You Are Not a Stranger Here
Ernest Hemingway—Short Stories
Shirley Jackson—Novels and Stories
Krys Lee—Drifting House
Jack London—To Build a Fire and Other Stories
Steven Millhauser—We Others
Flannery O’Connor—Everything That Rises Must
Converge
Lydia Peelle—Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
John Updike—My Father’s Tears: and other Stories
William T. Vollmann—Last Stories and Other Stories
P.G. Wodehouse—The Man With Two Left Feet
Short Stories by Michigan Authors
Karl Bohnak—So Cold A Sky
Michael Delp—As If We Were Prey
Christina Dembeck—Voices of Michigan
Jon Falk—If These Walls Could Talk
Ernest Hemingway—Complete Short Stories
Tom Rademacher—Knocking at Your Door; Splitting
Wood
Phillip Sterling—In Which Brief Stories Are Told
Gloria Whelan—Living Together
Write Michigan Anthology
Short Story Collections
Aravind Adiga—Between the Assassinations
Danit Brown—Ask for a Convertible
Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane
Austen and Chawton House Library / compiled by
Sarah Waters
Margaret Drabble—A Day in the Life of a Smiling
Woman
Nathan Englander—What We Talk About When We
Talk About Anne Frank
James Lasdun—It’s Beginning to Hurt
Krys Lee—Drifting House
Salman Rushdie—Haroun and the Sea Of Stories
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Short Stories Found in Non-Fiction
Best American Nonrequired Reading / edited by Dave
Eggers (LITCOLL BES)
Chris Bohjalian—Idyll Banter (LITCOLL BOH)
Chicken Soup series (VARIOUS CALL NUMBERS)
John Curran—Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks
(BIOGRAPHY CHRISTIE)
Warwick Davis—Size Matters Not (BIOGRAPHY DAVIS)
I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and
Some That May Not Be Funny At All / edited by Judd
Apatow (HUMOR I)
Alexis Stewart and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt—
Whateverland (SELFHELP PERSGRO STE)
Recommended Websites
classicshorts.com
shortstoryarchive.com
www.americanliterature.com