Short Stories, Long Journeys: My Never Ending Reading List

The Library of Babel.

There are an endless amount of short-stories that I would like to read before departing from this Earth. Hopefully, this list will be a useful tracking system for individual stories and collections that pique my interest. Considering the sheer volume of works vying for my attention, I get the feeling that this might end up a disorganized dumping ground as opposed to an organized reference guide. Either way, I love making lists and excited to see what happens. 

I'm always open for recommendations and please leave them in the comments below.

Onwards and upwards and sideways and backwards!

Individual short stories:

1. Crocodile Ride by Greg Egan (online)
2. Rules of the game by Amy Tan
3. Koolau the Leper by Jack London
4. Negore, The Coward by Jack London
5. The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
6. ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
7. *virginia is not your home*
8. The Way Up To Heaven, by Roald Dahl
9. The Key by Isaac Bashevis Singer
10. All the King’s Horses by Vonnegut
11. The Caress by Greg Egan
12. The Night we all had grippe by Shirley Jackson (online)
13. The whole town's sleeping by Ray Bradbury

Collections:

1. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
2. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Robarts)
3. Luminosity by Greg Egan
4. Witness by Jamel Brinkley (Robarts)
5. A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
6. Flash Fiction in America: 73 very short stories (Robarts)
7. Unreal and the Real by Ursula Le Guin (UTL, online)
8. Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh
9. Woman hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros (Robarts)
10. The Glassy, burning floor of Hell by Brian Evenson (UTL, online)
11. Dare the Sea by Ali Hosseini (Robarts)
12. Holler, Child (Stories) by LaToya Watkins
13. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal (black muslim americans)
14. Out there Screaming (Jordan Peele Anthology of Black Horror)
15. The King is Dead by Walter Tevis (TPL)
16. Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng (UTL, online)
17. My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson (TPL)
18. The Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz (Robarts)
19. Rock Springs (Stories) by Richard Ford (Robarts)
20. Hunger: A novel and stories by Samantha Lan Chang (Robarts)
21. 145th street by Walter Dean Myers
22. Each of us Killers by Jenny Bhatt (Robarts)
23. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (2013, Robarts)
24. From Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
25. The witness for the prosecution and other stories by Agatha Christie
26. More Pricks than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
27. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
28. The Sorcerers Apprentice by Charles Johnson
29. Lot by Bryan Washington
30. Collected Stories of Gabriel Marquez
31. Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
32. Selected Short Stories of Patricia Highsmith
33. Tender by Sofia Samatar (UTL online)
34. Sans Souci and other stories by Dionne Brand
35. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
36. Short Stories of Langston Hughes
37. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Robarts)
38. The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Robarts, Online)
39. Blue collar, white collar, no collar : stories of work
40. In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters by Robert Coover
41. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
42. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf (online)
43. This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara (Robarts)