The 444 Greatest Stories
All literature tells stories. Here, however, we are looking at short stories, defined as prose fiction up to 17,500 words. Longer works are reserved for our Greatest Novels and Greatest Novellas lists.
Titles are chosen for this list based on the same extensive research and surveys that helped create The Greatest Literature of All Time list. They represent the best stories of all genres, cultures and eras.
This list is for standalone stories only. Anthologies, collections and story cycles are listed separately.
This Greatest Stories list is continually updated as new works are discovered and appreciation of older stories evolves.
Latest update: May 2, 2024
BCE
c.1990
"The Shipwrecked Sailor"
by Anonymous, Egypt
Story also known as "The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor"; "The Sailor and the Serpent"; "The Island of Enchantment"
"The Eloquent Peasant"
by Anonymous, Egypt
Story also known as "The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"; "The Plea of the Eloquent Peasant"; "The Tale of the Peasant and the Workman"
c.1500
"Poor Man of Nippur"
by Anonymous, Babylonia
Story
c.1200
"Tale of Two Brothers"
by Anonymous, Egypt
Story
c.1100
"Story of Wenamun"
by Anonymous, Egypt
Story
c.400
"The Book of Jonah"
by Anonymous, Israel
Story also known as Jonah and the Whale; Jonah and the Whale
CE
c.800–1200
"The First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor"
by Anonymous, Persian
Story
c.800–1400
"The Fisherman and the Jinni"
by Anonymous, Persia
Story
c.900
"The Butterfly Lovers"
by Anonymous, China
Story
1348
"The Heart of Guillaume de Cabestaing"
by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy
Story
"The Story of Patient Griselda"
by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, story
c. 1387–1400
"The Knight's Tale"
by Geoffrey Chaucer, England
Poem
"The Wife of Bath's Tale"
by Geoffrey Chaucer, England
Poem
1558
"The Misadventures of Bornet"
by Marguerite de Navarre, France
Story
1697
"Bluebeard"
by Charles Perrault, France
Story
"Cinderella"
by Charles Perrault, France
Story
"Little Red Riding Hood"
by Charles Perrault, France
Story
"Puss in Boots"
by Charles Perrault, France
Story
"Sleeping Beauty"
by Charles Perrault, France
Story
1710
"Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp"
by Antoine Galland, France
Story
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
by Antoine Galland, France
Story
1805
"The Marquise of O..."
by Heinrich von Kleist, Germany
Story
1807
"The Earthquake in Chile"
by Heinrich von Kleist, Germany
Story
1816
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Germany
Story
1816
"The Sandman"
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Germany
Story
1827
"The Two Drovers"
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Story
1828
"The Tapestried Chamber ...or The Lady in the Sacque"
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Story
1830
"The Elixir of Life"
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Story
"An Incident in the Reign of Terror"
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Story
"A Passion in the Desert"
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Story
1834
"The Queen of Spades"
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Story
1835
"Diary of a Madman"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
"Nevsky Prospekt"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
"Wakefield"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
"Young Goodman Brown"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
""The Nose"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
"The Minister's Black Veil"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
1837
"The Little Mermaid"
by Han Christian Anderson, Denmark
Story
"The Spectre of Tappington"
by Richard Harris Barham, England
Story
"The Great Carbuncle"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
"Prophetic Pictures"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
1838
"The Story of Mary Ancel"
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England
Story
1842
"The Overcoat"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
1843
"The Ugly Duckling"
by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark
Story
"The Birth-Mark"
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story
1848
"A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Story
"White Nights"
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Story
"District Doctor"
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Story
"Mumu
by Ivan Turgenev", Russia
Story
1853
"Bartleby the Scrivener"
by Herman Melville, United States
Story
"The Lightning-Rod Man"
by Herman Melville, United States
Story
1855
"The Squire's Ghost"
by Mary Gaskell, England
Story
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
by Mark Twain, United States
Story
1868
"The Luck of Roaring Camp"
by Bret Harte, United States
Story
1869
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
by Bret Harte, United States
Story
"The Eclipse"
by James Fenimore Cooper, United States
Story
1872
"Green Tea"
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ireland
Story
"The Naughty Saint Vitalis"
by Gottfried Keller, Switzerland
Story
1873
"Marjorie Daw"
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, United States
Story
1874
"A Fight With a Cannon"
by Victor-Marie Hugo, France
Story
1876
"The Meek One"
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Story
"Scarlet Stockings"
by Luisa May Alcott, United States
Story
1877
"The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler"
by Gustav Flaubert, France
Story
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Story
1880
"Boule de Suif"
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Story
"The Pavilion on the Links"
by Robert Louis Stevenson, France
Story
1882
"The Knightsbridge Mystery"
by Charles Reade, England
Story
"Plautus in the Convent"
by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Switzerland
Story
"The Lady, or the Tiger?"
by Frank R. Stockton, United States
Story
1884
"The Necklace"
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Story
1885
"The Huntsman"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"The Looking Glass"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"The Three Questions"
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Story
"The Griffin and the Minor Canon"
by Frank R. Stockton, United States
Story
1886
"Lispeth"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
"The Happy Prince"
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
Story
"Vanka"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Story
1887
"The Horla"
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Story
"The Canterville Ghost"
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
Story
1888
"The Man Who Would Be King"
by Rudyard Kipling, England, Story
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
by Oscar Wilde, England
Story
"The Selfish Giant"
by Oscar Wilde, England
Story
"A Legend of Old Egypt"
by Bolesław Prus, Poland
Story
1889
"The Bet"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"Chickamauga"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
"A Horseman in the Sky"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
1890
"The Courting of Dinah Shadd"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
"Without Benefit of Clergy"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
"The Bottle Imp"
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland
Story
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
"Brooksmith"
by Henry James, United States
Story
1892
"Kabuliwala"
by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal
Story
"Our Lady's Juggler"
by Anatole France, France
Story
"The Yellow Wallpape"
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, United States
Story
"Christmas Every Day"
by William Dean Howells, United States
Story
"The Real Thing"
by Henry James, United States
Story
1893
"The Damned Thing"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
"Désirée’s Baby"
by Kate Chopin, United States
Story
1894
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
"The Outlaws"
by Selma Logerlöf, Sweden
Story
"Regret"
by Kate Chopin, United States
Story
"The Story of an Hour"
by Kate Chopin, United States
Story
1895
"A Farewell"
by Arthur Schnitzler, Germany
Story
"One Autumn Night"
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Story
"The Yellow Sign"
by Robert W. Chambers, United States
Story
"The Altar of the Dead"
by Henry James, United States
Story
1896
"Little Herr Friedemann"
by Thomas Mann, Germany
Story
"The Reporter Who Made Himself King"
by Richard Harding Davis, United States
Story
1897
"The Fortune-Teller"
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil
Story
1898
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles"
by H.G. Wells, England
Story
"Gooseberries"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
1899
"The Darling"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"The Lady with the Dog"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
"Twenty-six Men and a Girl"
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Story
1900
"How Old Timofei Died With a Song"
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Poland
Story
1901
"A Dark Brown Dog"
by Stephen Crane, United States
Story
"How the Leopard Got His Spots"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
1903
"A Dog's Tale"
by Mark Twain, United States
Story
1904
"The Mezzotint"
by M.R. James, England
Story
"'They'"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story
"Eveline"
by James Joyce, Ireland
Story
"The Red Laugh"
by Leonid Andreyev, Russia
Story
"The Cop and the Anthem"
by O. Henry, United States
Story
"The Other Two"
by Edith Wharton, United States
Story
"The White People"
by Arthur Machen, Wales
Story
1905
"The Burning of Egliswyle"
by Frank Wedekind, Germany
Story
"The Last Leaf"
by O. Henry, United States
Story
1906
"Lazarus"
by Leonid Andreyev, Russia
Story
"The Gift of the Magi"
by O. Henry, United States
Story
1907
"Putois"
by Anatole France, France
Story
1908
"The Death of Bachelor"
by Arthur Schnitzler, Austria
Story
"To Build a Fire"
by Jack London, United States
Story
"The Ransom of Red Chief"
by O. Henry, United States
Story
1911
"Casting the Runes"
by M.R. James, England
Story
"he Odour of Chrysanthemums"
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Story
"The Open Window"
by H.H. Munro, England
Story
"Sredni Vashtar"
by H.H. Munro, England
Story
1913
"The Judgment"
by Franz Kafka, Czech.
Story
1914
"The Prussian Officer"
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Story
"The Schartz-Metterklume Method"
by H.H. Munro, England
Story
1915
"Before the Trial"
by Franz Kafka, Czechia
Story
""Rashōmon
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japan
Story
1916
"Enoch Soames"
by Max Beerbohm, England
Story
1917
"A Country Doctor"
by Franz Kafka, Czechia
Story
"The Tale"
by Joseph Conrad, England
Story
"The Mark on the Wall"
by Virginia Woolf, England
Story
"A Jury of Her Peers"
by Susan Glaspell, United States
Story
1919
"In the Penal Colony"
by Franz Kafka, Czechia
Story
"The Interlopers"
by H.H. Munro, England
Story
"Loneliness"
by Sherwood Anderson, United States
Story
"The Fourth Man"
by John Russell, United States
Story
1921
"Rain"
by W. Somerset Maugham, England
Story
"I Want to Know Why"
by Sherwood Anderson, United States
Story
1922
"A Hunger Artist"
by Franz Kafka, Czechia
Story
"In a Grove"
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japan
Story
"The Horse Dealer’s Daughter"
by D.H. Lawrence , England, Story
"I'm a Fool"
by Sherwood Anderson, United States
Story
1923
"Theater"
by Jean Toomer, United States
Story
1924
"The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"
by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Story
"Di Grasso"
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Story
"The Most Dangerous Game"
by Richard Connell, United States
Story
"The Golden Honeymoon"
by Ring Lardner, United States
Story
"The Story of My Dovecote"
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Story
"Haircut"
by Ring Lardner, United States
Story
1927
"My First Goose"
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Story
"The Colour Out of Space"
by H.P. Lovecraft, United States
Story
"The Trumpet Sounds"
by Mary Roberts Rinehart, United States
Story
1929
"The End of the Party"
by Graham Greene, England
Story
"Big Blonde"
by Dorothy Parker, United States
Story
"Theft"
by Katherine Anne Porter, United States
Story
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
by Katherine Anne Porter, United States
Story
"A Telephone Call"
by Dorothy Parker, United States
Story
"Flowering Judas"
by Katherine Ann Porter, United States
Story
1931
"The Story of Babar"
by Jeean de Brunhof, France
Story
"uests of the Nation"
by Frank O'Connor, Ireland
Story
"Terra Incognita"
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Story
"Dry September"
by William Faulkner, United States
Story
""That Evening Sun
by William Faulkner, United States
Story
"Silent Snow, Secret Snow"
by Conrad Aiken, United States
Story
"Twilight"
by John W. Campbell, United States
Story
by John O'Hara, United States
Story
"Wash"
by William Faulkner, United States
Story
"A Martian Odyssey"
by Stanley G. Weinbaum, United States
Story
"The Basement Room"
by Graham Greene, United States
Story
"The Foreigner"
by Francis Steegmuller, United States
Story
1936
"Spring in Fialta"
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Story
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
by Stephen Vincent Benét, United States
Story
"The Graveyard Rats"
by Henry Kuttner, United States
Story
"Big Boy Leaves Home"
by Richard Wright, United States
Story
1937
"Call Me Joe"
by Poul Anderson, United States
Story
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"
by Delmore Schwartz, United States
Story
1938
"Leiningen Versus the Ants"
by Carl Stephenson, Germany
Story
"Helen O'Loy"
by Lester Del Rey, United States
Story
"Pigeons From Hell"
by Robert E. Howard, United States
Story
"Flight"
by John Steinbeck, United States
Story
"The Use of Force"
by William Carlos Williams, United States
Story
1939
"The Wall"
by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
Story
"Barn Burning"
by William Faulkner, United States
Story
"The Door"
by E.B. White, United States
Story
"The Chaser"
by John Collier, United States
Story
"Girls in Their Summer Dresses"
by Irwin Shaw, United States
Story
1940
"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story
"The Roads Must Roll
by Robert A. Heinlein, United States
Story
"It"
by Theodore Sturgeon, United States
Story
"The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
by Richard Wright, United States
Story
1941
"The Garden of Forking Paths"
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story
"The Lottery in Babylon"
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story
"A Girl from Red Lion, PA"
by H.L Mencken, United States
Story
"Microcosmic God"
by Theodore Sturgeon, United States
Story
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
by James Thurber, United States
Story
"The Hitch-Hikers"
by Eudora Welty, United States
Story
"Why I Live at the P.O."
by Eudora Welty, United States
Story
"A Worn Path"
by Eudora Welty, United States
Story
1942
"Sorrow-Acre"
by Isak Dinesen, Denmark
Story
"The Quilt"
by Ismat Chugtai, India
Story
"Foundation"
by Isaac Asimov, United States
Story
"The Catbird Seat"
by James Thurber, United States
Story
"The Weapon Shop"
by A.E. van Vogt, United States
Story
"Rear Window"
by Cornell Woolrich, United States
Story
1943
"A String of Beads"
by Somerset Maugham, United States
Story
"Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"
by Robert Bloch, United States
Story
"Mimsy Were the Borogroves"
by C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner
(as Lewis Padgett), United States
(as Lewis Padgett), United States
Story
1944
"Beware of the Dog"
by Roald Dahl, England
Story
"Arena"
by Fredric Brown, United States
Story
1945
"The Aleph"
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story
"The Small Assassin"
by Ray Bradbury, United States
Story
"First Contact"
by Murray Leinster, United States
Story
1946
"First Love"
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Story
1947
"The Enormous Radio"
by John Cheever, United States
Story
"Smoke Ghost"
by Fritz Leiber, United States
Story
"With Folded Hands..."
by Jack Williamson, United States
Story
1948
"Signs and Symbols"
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Story
"Miami–New York"
by Martha Gellhorn, United States
Story
"That Only a Mother"
by Judith Merril, United States
Story
"The Lottery"
by Shirley Jackson, United States
Story
"Scanners Live in Vain"
by Cordwainer Smith, United States
Story
"Little Black Bag of Magic"
by C.M. Kornbluth, United States
Story
"Coming Attraction"
by Fritz Leiber, United States
Story
1951
"Bestiary"
by Julio Cortázar, Argentina
Story
"Christmas Not Just once a Year"
by Heinrich Böll, Germany
Story
"Goodbye, My Brother"
by John Cheever, United States
Story
"Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland"
by Carson McCullers, United States
Story
"The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin"
by Tennessee Williams, United States
Story
1952
"The Birds"
by Daphne du Maurier, England
Story
"Surface Tension"
by James Blish, United States
Story
"A Child's Christmas in Wales"
by Dylan Thomas, Wales
Story
1953
"The South
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story
"The Nine Billion Names of God"
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Story
"Three-Ten to Yuma"
by Elmore Leonard, United States
Story
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Story
"Gimpel the Fool"
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
Story
"Man Fom the South"
by Roald Dahl, Wales
Story
1954
"Fondy Fahrenheit"
by Alfred Bester, United States
Story
"All Summer in a Day"
by Ray Bradbury, United States
Story
"The Country Husband"
by John Cheever, United States
Story
"The Five-Forty-Eight"
by John Cheever, United States
Story
"The Cold Equations"
by Tom Godwin, United States
Story
1955
"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
Story
"Good Country People"
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Story
"Toba Tek Singh"
by Sadaat Hasan Manto, Pakistan
Story
1956
"The Night Face Up"
by Julio Cortázar, Argentina
Story
1957
"The Adulterous Woman"
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Story
"The Guest"
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Story
"A Bond for Two Lifetimes—Gleanings"
by Fumiko Enchi, Japan
Story
"The Habit of Loving"
by Doris Lessing, United States
Story
"Sonny's Blues"
by James Baldwin, United States
Story
1958
"The Challenge"
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Story
1959
"The Landlady"
by Roald Dahl, Wales
Story
"The Sacrificial Egg"
by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Story
"The Soldier's Peaches"
by Stuart Cloete, South Africa
Story
"The Ledge"
by Lawrence Sargent Hall, United States
Story
"Flowers for Algernon"
by Daniel Keyes, United States
Story
1960
"Borges and I"
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinia
Story
"A Horse and Two Goats"
by R.K. Narayan, India
Story
"Patriotism"
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Story
1961
"The Tomorrow-Tamer"
by Margaret Laurence, Canada
Story
"I Stand Here Ironing"
by Tillie Olsen, United States
Story
"A&P"
by John Updike, United States
Story
"The Moon Moth"
by Jack Vance, United States
Story
"Harrison Bergeron"
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Story
1962
"Let Them Call It Jazz"
by Jean Rhys, England
Story
"Novotny's Pain"
by Philip Roth, United States
Story
"Pigeon Feathers"
by John Updike, United States
Story
1963
"Gogol's Wife"
by Tomasso Landolfi, Italy
Story
"The Jewbird"
by Bernard Malamud, United States
Story
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes"
by Roger Zelazny, United States
Story
1964
"The Swimmer"
by John Cheever, United States
Story
1965
"Going to Meet the Man"
by James Baldwin, United States
Story
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"
by Harlan Ellison, United States
Story
"Parker's Back"
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Story
1966
"The Saint"
by V.S. Pritchett, England
Story
"Glittering City"
by Cyprina Ekwensi, Nigeria
Story
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
by Joyce Carol Oates, United States
Story
1967
"The Night Driver"
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Story
"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story
1968
"Boys and Girls"
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story
"Henne Fire"
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
Story
1969
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again"
by Joyce Carole Oates, United States
Story
1979
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"
by Brian W. Aldiss, England
Story
"Private Tuition by Mr Bose"
by Anita Desai, India
Story
1971
"Don't Look Now"
by Daphne du Maurier, England
Story
"Inconstant Moon"
by Larry Niven, United States
Story
"The Suitcase"
by Cynthia Ozick, United States
Story
1972
"Goat Song"
by Poul Anderson, United States
Story
"Naga"
by R.K. Narayan, India
Story
"Eurema's Dam"
by R.A. Lafferty, United States
Story
1973
"The Whimper of Whipped Dogs"
by Harlan Ellison, United States
Story
"The One Who Walks Away From Omelas"
by Ursula K. Le Guin, United States
Story
"Everyday Use"
by Alice Walker, United States
Story
1974
"Five-Twenty"
by Patrick White, Australia
Story
"How I Met My Husband"
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story
"I Bought a Little City"
by Donald Barthelme, United States
Story
1975
"Rape Fantasies"
by Margaret Atwood, Canada
Story
"Roses, Rhododendrons"
by Alice Adams, United States
Story
1976
"The Bicentennial Man"
by Isaac Asimov, United States
Story
"The School"
by Donald Barthelme, United States
Story
1977
"Jeffty Is Five"
by Harlan Ellison, United States
Story
1978
"The Beggar Maid"
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story
"Why Don't You Dance?"
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story
1979
"The Hockey Sweater"
by Roch Carrier, Canada
Story
1980
"The Shawl"
by Cynthia Ozick, United States
Story
"The Ugly Chickens"
by Howard Waldrop, United States
Story
1981
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story
"Coin of the Realm"
by Charles L. Grant, United States
Story
"The Reach"
by Stephen King, United States
Story
1982
"Calling Card"
by Ramsey Campbell, England
Story
1985
"The Chosen Husband"
by Mavis Gallant, Canada
Story
"Greasy Lake"
by T. Coraghessan Boyle, United States
Story
1986
"Communnist"
by Richard Ford, United States
Story
"The Way We Live Now
by Susan Sontag, United States
Story
1987
"Buffalo Girls, Won't You Come Out Tonight"
by Ursula K. Le Guin, United States
Story
"The Things They Carried"
by Tim O'Brien, United States
Story
1988
"The Management of Grief"
by Bharati Mukherjee, United States
Story
1989
"You're Ugly, Too"
by Lorrie Moore, United States
Story
1990
"A Real Doll"
by A.M. Homes, United States
Story
"Meneseteung"
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story
"Bears Discover Fire"
by Terry Bisson, United States
Story
1991
"Never Marry a Mexican"
by Sandra Cisneros, United States
Story
"Emergency"
by Denis Johnson, United States
Story
"The Pugilist at Rest"
by Thom Jones, United States
Story
1992
"I Want to Live!"
by Thom Jones, United States
Story
1993
"In Plain Sight"
by Mavis Gallant, Canada
Story
"The Elephant Vanishes"
by Haruki Murakami, Japan
Story
"The Second Bakery Attack"
by Haruki Murakami, Japan
Story
"Silver Water"
by Amy Bloom, United States
Story
1994
"In Dancing Bear"
by Doug Allyn, United States
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1997
"Tiny, Smiling Daddy"
by Mary Gaitskill, United States
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"The Half-Skinned Steer"
by Annie Proulx, United States
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"Bullet in the Brain"
by Tobias Wolff, United States, Story
1997–1999
"Brokeback Mountain"
by Annie Proulx, United States
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1998
"Sea Oak"
by George Saunders, United States
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1999
"Interpreter of Maladies"
by Jhumpa Lahiri, United States
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2000
"Bee Honey"
by Banana Yoshimoto, Japan
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2001
"The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
by Alice Munro, Canada
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2003
"What You Pawn, I Will Redeem"
by Sherman Alexie, United States
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2004
"Runaway"
by Alice Munro, Canada
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2005
"Two Hearts"
by Peter S. Beagle, United States
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2009
"A Tiny Feast"
by Chris Adrian, United States
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2010
"Safari"
by Jennifer Egan, United States
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2011
"The Paper Managerie"
by Ken Liu, United States
Story
2013
"Godspeed and Perpetua"
by A. Igoni Barrett, Nigeria
Story
2015
"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"
by Alyssa Wong, United States
Story
2016
"Seasons of Glass and Iron"
by Amal El-Mohtar, Canada
Story
2017
"Funny Little Snakes"
by Tessa Hadley, England
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