Contents

• Pt. 1. Stories. Civil peace / Chinua Achebe
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfighting in heaven / Sherman Alexie - - The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
• The act of vengeance / Isabel Allende
• Hands / Sherwood Anderson
• Happy endings / Margaret Atwood
• Sonny’s blues / James Baldwin
• The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
• Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat / Russell Banks
• Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
• The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme
• Snow / Ann Beattie
• The overcoat / Gina Berriault
• An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
• The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges - - This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
• Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle
• August 2026 : there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
• The guest / Albert Camus
• Cathedral / Raymond Carver
• Errand / Raymond Carver
• What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver
• Paul’s case / Willa Cather
• The swimmer / John Cheever
• The darling / Anton Chekhov
• The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov
• Désirée’s baby / Kate Chopin
• The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
• The house on Mango Street / Sandar Cisneros
• The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
• Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
• A continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar
• The open boat / Stephen Crane
• Night women / Edwidge Danticat
• How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Díaz
• Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
• The red convertible / Louise Erdrich
• A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
• That evening sun / William Faulkner
• Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
• Under the radar / Richard Ford
• A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez
• The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
• Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer
• The minister’s black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Woman from America / Bessie Head
• Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
• Lunch at the Biltmore / Oscar Hijuelos
• The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
• Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston
• Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
• Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
• The lottery / Shirley Jackson
• The real thing / Henry James
• Who’s Irish? / Gish Jen
• A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
• Saboteur / Ha Jin
• Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson
• Araby / James Joyce
• The dead / James Joyce
• A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
• The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
• Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
• When Mr. Pirzada came to dine / Jhumpa Lahiri
• Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence
• The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
• Gravity / David Leavitt
• The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
• A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
• The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector
• To build a fire / Jack London
• Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
• The fly / Katherine Mansfield
• Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
• The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
• Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
• The performance / Arthur Miller
• Cat ‘n’ mouse / Steven Millhauser
• Tell the truth / Nicholasa Mohr
• Boys / Rick Moody
• How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore
• The management of grief/ Bharati Mukherjee
• Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro
• Landscape with flatiron / Haruki Murakami
• The lady with the pet dog / Joyce Carol Oates
• Three girls / Joyce Carol Oates
• Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
• The things they carried / Tim O’Brien
• Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O’Connor
• Good country people / Flannery O’Connor
• A good man is hard to find / Flannery O’Connor
• Guests of the nation / Frank O’Connor
• I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
• The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
• Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer
• A conversation with my father / Grace Paley - - My life with the wave / Octavio Paz
• The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe
• The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe
• The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe
• He / Katherine Anne Porter
• The gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
• The blood bay / Annie Proulx
• Distant view of a minaret / Alifa Rifaat - - The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
• Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders
• Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
• Café society / Helen Simpson
• The way we live now / Susan Sontag
• Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein
• The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
• Mines / Susan Straight
• Two kinds / Amy Tan
• The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
• Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
• A & P / John Updike
• The place of its quietude / Luisa Valenzuela
• The moths / Helena María Veramontes
• Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Everyday use / Alice Walker
• Incarnations of burned children / David Foster Wallace
• Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
• A worn path / Eudora Welty
• Roman fever / Edith Wharton
• newborn thrown in trash dies / John Edgar Wideman
• The use of force / William Carlos Williams
• Say yes / Tobias Wolff
• Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf
• The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
• The accident / Gao Xingjian
• Wilshire bus / Hisaye Yamamoto