I decided to make a list of some short stories I’ve either really enjoyed or found memorable. Some authors have multiple stories that come to mind but, for this particular list, I thought I’d include only one story per writer.

• The Swimmer by John Cheever 
• Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
• Second Variety by Philip K. Dick 
• Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant 
• The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko 
• 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville 
• The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury 
• A Tour in the Forest by Ivan Turgenev 
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin 
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner 
• Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy 
• A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway 
• Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty 
• The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
• The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 
• A Gravestone Made of Wheat by Will Weaver 
• The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
• A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
• Zaabalawi by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard
• Love of Life by Jack London
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving