High School Literature I: Short Story Reading List

1. “The Piece of String,” by Guy DeMaupassant and “All But Blind,” by Walter de la Mare 2. “The Monkey’s Paw,” by W. W. Jacobs and “A Ballad of John Silver,” by John Masefield 3. “The Whirligig of Life,” by O’Henry and "Apparently with No Surprise," by Dickinson 4. “The Interlopers,” by Saki and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Frost 5. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Stephen Crane and “Drinking,” by Cowley 6. “The Doomdorf Mystery,” by Melville Davisson Post 7. “The Adventures of the Speckled,” by Arthur Conan Doyle 8. “The Lady & the Tiger,” by Frank Stockton 9. "The Sire de Maletroit's Door," and “Bright is the Ring” by Robert Louis Stevenson 10. "The Ambitious Guest," Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The Darken'd Veil," by Hawthorne 11. "The Children's Story," by James Clavell "The Stolen Child," by W. B. Yeats 12. "The Telltale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe"The Raven," Edgar Allen Poe 13. "Penrod," by Booth Tarkington 14. "The Lightning Rod Man," by Herman Melville 15. "How Fear Came to the Jungle," by Rudyard Kipling 16. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Nathaniel Hawthorne 17. "Brothers are the Same," by Beryl Markham 18. "To Build a Fire," by Jack London 19. "Rip Van Winkle," by Washington Irving 20. "The Bet," by Anton Checkov 21. "The Illiterate Spider," by Billy C. Clark 22. "A Jonquil for Mary Penn," by Wendell Berry 23. "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," by Bret Harte and "The Second Coming" by William Yeats 24. "King Solomon of Kentucky," by James Lane Allen 25. "The Killers," by Ernest Hemingway 26. "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson 27. "A Field of Rice," by Pearl S.Buck 28. "Bartleby the Scrivener," by Herman Melville 29. "Blackberry Winter." by Robert Penn Warren 30. "Barn Burning," by William Faulkner (Please read this story before coming to class, since it is to long to read in its entirely in class.)