Finding Short Stories Search the Library Catalog for these Authors, Stories, or Collections!
Some Popular Short Story Authors to Explore... Louisa May Alcott Arthur Conan Doyle F. Scott Fitzgerald Guy de Maupassant Sherwood Anderson Elizabeth Gaskell Nikolai Gogol Dorothy Parker Willa Cather William Faulkner Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe Anton Chekhov F. Scott Fitzgerald Rudyard Kipling Saki (H. H. Munro) Kate Chopin Nathaniel Hawthorne James Joyce Katherine Anne Porter Agatha Christie Ernest Hemingway Jack London Mark Twain Stephen Crane O. Henry Katherine Mansfield Eudora Welty
Authors of Fables, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Horror, or Science Fiction
Aesop (fables) Ray Bradbury (sci-fi) The Brothers Grimm (fairy tales) Anne McCaffrey (fantasy) Hans Christian Andersen (fairy tales) Italo Calvino (fantasy / sci-fi) Stephen King (horror) Beatrix Potter (fables) Isaac Asimov (sci-fi) Philip K. Dick (fantasy / sci-fi) Ursula K. Le Guin (sci-fi) James Thurber (fables) Jorge Luis Borges (fantasy) Neil Gaiman (fantasy / sci-fi) H. P. Lovecraft (fantasy / horror) J. R. R. Tolkien (fantasy) Arthur C. Clarke (sci-fi) William Gibson (sci-fi) George R. R. Martin (fantasy) Gene Wolfe (fantasy/sci-fi)
20th Century & Contemporary Short Story Authors Sherman Alexie Sandra Cisneros Carson McCullers J. D. Salinger Jeffrey Archer Noel Coward Lorrie Moore Isaac Bashevis Singer J.G. Ballard Lydia Davis Alice Munro John Steinbeck Ann Beattie Junot Díaz Haruki Murakami Elizabeth Strout T. C. Boyle Amy Hempel Flannery O'Connor William Trevor A.S. Byatt Jhumpa Lahiri Joyce Carol Oates John Updike Raymond Carver Gabriel Garcia Marquez Grace Paley P. G. Wodehouse John Cheever Bobbie Ann Mason Philip Roth Richard Wright
Some Popular Short Stories & Short Story Collections
“A & P” – John Updike The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle “The Metamorphosis” – Franz Kafka “The Awakening” – Kate Chopin "The Necklace" – Guy de Maupassant “Babylon Revisited” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Nine Stories – J. D. Salinger "To Build a Fire" – Jack London "The Real Thing" – Henry James Dubliners – James Joyce “Rip Van Winkle” – Washington Irving "The Gift of the Magi" – O. Henry "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" – James Thurber "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" – Flannery O’Connor "The Tell-Tale Heart" – Edgar Allan Poe “Hills Like White Elephants” – Ernest Hemingway Tell Me a Riddle – Tillie Olsen I, Robot – Isaac Asimov “The $30,000 Bequest” – Mark Twain Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” “The Lady with the Dog” – Anton Chekhov – Joyce Carol Oates “The Library of Babel” – Jorge Luis Borges “A White Heron” – Sarah Orne Jewett "The Lottery" – Shirley Jackson “Young Goodman Brown” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anthologies & Yearly Collections of Notable Stories The Best American Short Stories The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction The Best American Short Stories of the Century The Oxford Book of American Short Stories The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
Exploring Short Stories at Thrall... Many short story collections can be located alphabetically by the authors last name in our Fiction section. Some anthologies of stories are located in the 800s (Literature) section. Our Reference collection includes Short Story Index (shelved at the call number of REF 016.8 SHO): you can use it to locate (by author, subject, or genre) where stories were originally published. For even more possibilities: try a subject search in the library system catalog (www.thrall.org/catalog) for “short stories” (with quotes). We also invite you to inquire at our Reference Department (in person, online at www.thrall.org/ask, or by telephone: 845-341-5461) or to explore our Literature guide online at www.thrall.org/literature