Short Stories

A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre.

Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks.
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Show Don't Tell
The Poorly Made and Other Things
Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology
Code Noir: Fictions
Snowy Day and Other Stories
Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight
Mother River
A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025
Secrets Between the Shelves: 4 Cozy Bookshop Mysteries
One Message Remains
Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers: An Anthology
Haunted Ecologies
BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
Agate Way
Red Leaves
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
De krater
The Bookstore Keepers (Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, #3)
Natural Selection
A Welcome Reunion
Downstate (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
When We Were Friends
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5)
One Little Mistake
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
So Late in the Day
Fire
She's Always Hungry
The Rule of Threes (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
Staged (Busybodies Collection, #1)
Free Four by Veronica RothDestroy Me by Tahereh MafiGlitches by Marissa MeyerHana by Lauren OliverSummer's Crossing by Julie Kagawa
YA Short Stories and Novellas
682 books — 1,183 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,871 books — 2,026 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
989 books — 1,403 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
718 books — 1,881 voters

2 States by Chetan BhagatI Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder SinghThe 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan BhagatThe Immortals of Meluha by Amish TripathiRevolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
Indian Books - Fiction
1,005 books — 2,403 voters
Saint Richard Parker by Merlin FrancoThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan KarunatilakaSomeone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews
Best Humor Writing
799 books — 801 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Your Life and Others
Tenth of December
Exhalation
Dubliners
The Lottery
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Nine Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Lottery and Other Stories
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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