In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order:

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams
Stuart Dybek - Pet Milk
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria
Brett Harte - The Oucasts of Poker Flat
Richard Connell - The Most Dangerous Game
Dorothy Allison - River of Names
Margaret Attwood - Happy Endings
Andrea Barrett - The Litoral Zone
Donald Barthelme - The School
J.D. Sallinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Richard Bausch - The Man who Knew Belle Starr
Charles Baxter - Gryphon
Ann Beattie - Janus
Junot Diaz - Fiesta, 1980
Andre Dubus - The Fat Girl
Pam Houston - How to Talk to a Hunter
Ha Jin - The Woman from New York
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
O Henry - The Gift of the Magi

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Originally posted by tribu In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order: Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria

Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden.

more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read.

SK rocks!

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Originally posted by tubularbills Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden. more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read. SK rocks!

The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.

As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think. As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post.

Winter Dreams

My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order.

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Originally posted by tribu Winter Dreams My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order.

Tender is the Night is my favorite novel of his. I'll def. check out that collection though.

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Originally posted by tribu Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent

*The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
*Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
*The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

i remember reading The Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily for a class in HS and getting the chills from them. good stories nonetheless. even now, i still get creeped out thinking about those stories. i guess it must have left a pretty darn big impression on me.

if you liked Jhumpa Lahiri's The Third and Final Continent, you should check out her book The Interpreter of Maladies... it's a collection of her short stories including the aforementioned The Third and Final Continent. i just finished reading that book and really enjoyed it and i'm waiting for my copy of The Namesake to arrive.

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Originally posted by BLuEOcEaN420 *The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka *Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne *The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe *The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe...

I never really liked A Rose for Emily but The Yellow Wallpaper is exeptional. I take that back. A Rose for Emily is good too, but it's been required reading for me so many times that I've forgotten how good it can be.

I actually have Interpreter but Ive haven't had a chance to go through it.

And of course, most Poe stories are classics.


I find it hard to believe that no one else here can suggest good short stories, but no one ever responds to my posts seriously

I really enjoy Stephen Kings short stories, well...almost all his stuff really.

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The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.

Shawshank Redemption is, but The Green Mile was a "serial" novel. Originally released over time as 6 short novels. So call it what you want lol.

Interesting read also....a short story that caused quite a stir among the interweb:

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm

go to his main news page and he has a long response due to the way it was received.

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Originally posted by Swamper If you want to bitch and whine about your sig being edited then PM me with what it was and I'll look into it. Posting a thread about this wastes everyone's time

There's a publishing company out there that finds works by prolific authors that are from 80-120 pages (novellas I guess) and publishes them. I've bought a couple books from them now, including Hadji Murat by Tolstoy (one of my favorites), Arctic Winter by Forster, Ruslan and Lyudmila by Pushkin, etc.

Hesperus Press I think it's called. Anyway, so far everything I've read of theirs has been quality. Amazon carries a lot of their titles for around 10 bucks a book.

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