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. Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati
3. Bettering Myself by Ottessa Moshfegh
4. My Apologies by Sam Lipsyte (New yorker)
5. The Worm in Philly by Sam Lipsyte
6. The Republic of Empathy by Sam Lipsyte (New Yorker)
7. Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear
8. St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell (online)
9. Slingshot by Souvankham Thammavongsa - How to Pronounce Knife Collection
10. Petra by Greg Egan
11. Rondine al Nido by Claire Vaye Watkins
12. Allah Have Mercy by Mohammed Naseehu Ali (New Yorker)
13. Shock of Birth by Cadwell Turnbull
14. Trebuchet by Avitus B Carle
15. The Face in the Mirror by Mohsin Hamid (New Yorker)
16. The Metal Bowl by Miranda July (New Yorker)
17. Wangs Carpets by Greg Egan
18. Goodbye to the Road Not Taken by A.M. Homes
19. Extra by Yiyun Li
20. The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard
21. The Wind by Lauren Groff
22. The price by Neil Gaiman
23. Hide & Seek by P. Djeli Clark
24. The Clearing by Luisa Mercedes Levinson
25. Two men by andrew porter
26. All Will be Well by Yiyun Li
27. Who, me a bum? by Luisa Valenzuela
28. A family supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
29. The Man of the World by Frank O'Connor (online)
30. Paycheck by PKD
31. Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek
32. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
33. The Infamous Bengal Ming” by Rajesh Parameswaran (online)
34. Separating by John Updike
35. The Bulgarian Poetess by John Updike
36. A Conversation with my Father by Grace Paley
37. Los Angeles by Ling Ma
38. The Re-Encounter by Isaac Bashevis Singer
39. Taking Care by Joy Williams
40. China by Charles Johnson
41. Story by Lydia Davis
42. The Last Thing we Need by Claire Vaye Watkins
43. The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
44. Sweethearts by Richard Ford (online)
45. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (online)
46. Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
47. Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
48. The Killers by Hemingway
49. The Hitchhikers by Eudora Welty
50. Blood-burning Moon by Jean Toomer
51. Axolotl by Julio Cortazar 
52. Ambush by Donna Tartt
53. After Rain by William Trevor
54. Ten Year affair by Erin Somers
55. The Match by Colson Whitehead
56. The interior castle by Jean Stafford
57. Standard Loneliness package by Charles Lu
58. Resurrection of life by William Saroyan
59. The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin by Tennessee Williams
60. Rules of the game by Amy Tan
61. Country Husband by John Cheever
62. Slaves on the Block by Langston Hughes
63. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
64. The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí Clark
65. You're Ugly too by Lorrie Moore
66. Koolau the Leper by Jack London
67. Negore, The Coward by Jack London
68. The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
69. ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
70. *virginia is not your home*
71. The Way Up To Heaven, by Roald Dahl
72. Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl
73. Terminus by Stanislaw Lem
74. The Key by Isaac Bashevis Singer
75. All the King’s Horses by Vonnegut
76. The Caress by Greg Egan
77. The Night we all had grippe by Shirley Jackson (online)
78. 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. Rock Springs by Richard Ford (Robarts)
4. The cost of living: early and uncollected stories of Mavis Gallant (Robarts)
5. Out there Screaming (Jordan Peele Anthology of Black Horror)
6. Perchance to Dreams by Charles Beaumont (cool cover, intro by Ray Bradbury)
7. Luminosity by Greg Egan
8. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Robarts)
9. What is not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (Kindle)
10. Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah (Robarts)
11. Witness by Jamel Brinkley (Robarts)
12. Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
13. A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
14. Flash Fiction in America: 73 very short stories (Robarts)
15. Unreal and the Real by Ursula Le Guin (UTL, online)
16. Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh
17. Woman hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros (Robarts)
18. The Glassy, burning floor of Hell by Brian Evenson (UTL, online)
19. Dare the Sea by Ali Hosseini (Robarts)
20. Holler, Child (Stories) by LaToya Watkins
21. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal (black muslim americans)
22. The King is Dead by Walter Tevis (TPL)
23. Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng (UTL, online)
24. My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson (TPL)
25. The Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz (Robarts)
26. Rock Springs (Stories) by Richard Ford (Robarts)
27. Hunger: A novel and stories by Samantha Lan Chang (Robarts)
28. 145th street by Walter Dean Myers
29. Each of us Killers by Jenny Bhatt (Robarts)
30. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (2013, Robarts)
31. From Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
32. The witness for the prosecution and other stories by Agatha Christie
33. More Pricks than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
34. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
35. The Sorcerers Apprentice by Charles Johnson
36. Lot by Bryan Washington
37. Collected Stories of Gabriel Marquez
38. Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
39. Selected Short Stories of Patricia Highsmith
40. Tender by Sofia Samatar (UTL online)
41. Sans Souci and other stories by Dionne Brand
42. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
43. Short Stories of Langston Hughes
44. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Robarts)
45. The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Robarts, Online)
46. Blue collar, white collar, no collar : stories of work
47. In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters by Robert Coover
48. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
49. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf (online)
50. This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara (Robarts)