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. King Kong Korab by Pete Hsu
3. A Penny Short by Pete Hsu (Online)
4. Zero Pineapples by Timothy Willis Sanders
5. How to Make Love to a Physicist by Deesha Philyaw
6. Snowfall by Deesha Philyaw
7. Concrete Negro by Jocelyn Johnson
8. The Pocketbook Game by Alice Childress
9. Where You'll Find Me by Anne Beattie
10. Teenage Punk by Lucia Berlin
11. The Murders in Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
12. The Hunter by E.L. Doctorow
13. The Prom Terrorists by Rabih Alameddine
14. Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati
15. Bettering Myself by Ottessa Moshfegh
16. My Apologies by Sam Lipsyte (New yorker)
17. Foaling Season by Aryn Kyle
18. The Worm in Philly by Sam Lipsyte
19. Peach Cobbler by Deesha Philyaw
20. Just Before the War with the Eskimos by J.D. Salinger
21. Intruders of Sleepless Nights by Pamela Painter
22. Snowfall by Deesha Philyaw
23. When Eddie Levert Comes by Deesha Philyaw
24. The Republic of Empathy by Sam Lipsyte (New Yorker)
25. Making Friends by Joy Williams (Paris Review)
26. Concord 34 by Salley Rooney (online)
27. A Science for Being Alone by Daniel Alarcon
28. City of Clowns by Daniel Alarcon
29. Liquid Papers by Nicolette Polek
30. Keats at 24 by Caleb Crain (New Yorker)
31. Delivery by Bruce Barrow
32. Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear
33. St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell (online)
34. Office Hours by Ling Ma
35. Peking Duck by Ling Ma
36. The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud
37. Happiest Moment by Lydia Davis
38. Slingshot by Souvankham Thammavongsa - How to Pronounce Knife Collection
39. Rondine al Nido by Claire Vaye Watkins
40. Allah Have Mercy by Mohammed Naseehu Ali (New Yorker)
41. Shock of Birth by Cadwell Turnbull
42. Trebuchet by Avitus B Carle
43. The Face in the Mirror by Mohsin Hamid (New Yorker)
44. Former Marine by Russell Banks
45. The Metal Bowl by Miranda July (New Yorker)
46. Goodbye to the Road Not Taken by A.M. Homes
47. Extra by Yiyun Li
48. The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard
49. The Wind by Lauren Groff
50. The price by Neil Gaiman
51. Hide & Seek by P. Djeli Clark
52. Sara Cole: A Type of Love Story by Russell Banks
53. The Clearing by Luisa Mercedes Levinson
54. Two men by andrew porter
55. All Will be Well by Yiyun Li
56. Who, me a bum? by Luisa Valenzuela
57. A family supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
58. The Man of the World by Frank O'Connor (online)
59. Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek
60. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
61. The First Seven Years by Bernard Malamud
62. The Infamous Bengal Ming” by Rajesh Parameswaran (online)
63. Separating by John Updike
64. The Bulgarian Poetess by John Updike
65. A Conversation with my Father by Grace Paley
66. Los Angeles by Ling Ma
67. The Re-Encounter by Isaac Bashevis Singer
68. Taking Care by Joy Williams
69. Three People by William Trevor
70. China by Charles Johnson
71. Story by Lydia Davis
72. The Last Thing we Need by Claire Vaye Watkins
73. The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
74. Sweethearts by Richard Ford (online)
75. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (online)
76. Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
77. The Killers by Hemingway
78. The Hitchhikers by Eudora Welty
79. Blood-burning Moon by Jean Toomer
80. Axolotl by Julio Cortazar 
81. Ambush by Donna Tartt
82. After Rain by William Trevor
83. Ten Year affair by Erin Somers
84. The Match by Colson Whitehead
85. The interior castle by Jean Stafford
86. Resurrection of life by William Saroyan
87. The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin by Tennessee Williams
88. Rules of the game by Amy Tan
89. Country Husband by John Cheever
90. Slaves on the Block by Langston Hughes
91. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
92. The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí Clark
93. You're Ugly too by Lorrie Moore
94. Koolau the Leper by Jack London
95. Negore, The Coward by Jack London
96. The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
97. Children On Their Birthdays by Truman Capote
98. *virginia is not your home*
99. The Way Up To Heaven, by Roald Dahl
100. Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl
101. The Key by Isaac Bashevis Singer
102. Home for Christmas by Carson McCullers
103. O'Brian's First Christmas by Jeanette Winterson
104. Little Miss Sophie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (online)
105. Any Further West by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
106. Christmas at Red Butte by Lucy Montgomery (online)
107. Santa Claus is a White Man by John Henrik Clarke
108. Charades by Lorrie Moore
109. Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock
110. The Errors of Santa Claus by Stephen Leacock
111. Christmas or the Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
112. Charity by Cara Blue Adams 

Sci-Fi:

1. How to Raise a Kraken in your Bathtub by P. Djèlí Clark 
2. Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
3. Amnesty by Octavia Butler
4. Petra by Greg Egan
5. Wangs Carpets by Greg Egan
6. Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
7. The Emissary by Ray Bradbury 
8. Standard Loneliness package by Charles Yu
9. Paycheck by PKD
10. The whole town's sleeping by Ray Bradbury
11. The Women Men Don't see by James Tiptree Jr.
12. Hinterlands by Willian Gibson (Burning Chrome)
13. The Diary of a Rose by Ursula Le Guin
14. The Mother of Seggri by Ursula Le Guin
15. Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
16. The Commuter by PKD 
17. Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith
18. Algorithms for Love by Ken Liu
19. Simulacrum by Ken Liu (paper menagerie)
20. The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
21. Bridesicle by Will McIntosh
22. Terminus by Stanislaw Lem

Collections:

1. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Robarts)
2. 21st century SF (Robarts)
3. Quintessence of Dust by Craig Wallwork
4. Collected Stories of Richard Yates
5. The Best of R.A. Lafferty (Robarts)
6. My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson (TPL)
7. This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara (Robarts)
8. Rock Springs by Richard Ford (Robarts)
9. The cost of living: early and uncollected stories of Mavis Gallant (Robarts)
10. Out there Screaming (Jordan Peele Anthology of Black Horror)
11. Perchance to Dreams by Charles Beaumont (cool cover, intro by Ray Bradbury)
12. Luminosity by Greg Egan
13. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Robarts)
14. What is not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (Kindle)
15. Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah (Robarts)
16. Witness by Jamel Brinkley (Robarts)
17. Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
18. A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
19. Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
20. Short stories of the civil rights movement : an anthology (Robarts)
21. Flash Fiction in America: 73 very short stories (Robarts)
22. Unreal and the Real by Ursula Le Guin (UTL, online)
23. Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh
24. Woman hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros (Robarts)
25. The Glassy, burning floor of Hell by Brian Evenson (UTL, online)
26. Dare the Sea by Ali Hosseini (Robarts)
27. Holler, Child (Stories) by LaToya Watkins
28. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal (black muslim americans)
29. The King is Dead by Walter Tevis (TPL)
30. Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng (UTL, online)
31. The Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz (Robarts)
32. Rock Springs (Stories) by Richard Ford (Robarts)
33. Hunger: A novel and stories by Samantha Lan Chang (Robarts)
34. Each of us Killers by Jenny Bhatt (Robarts)
35. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (2013, Robarts)
36. From Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
37. The witness for the prosecution and other stories by Agatha Christie
38. More Pricks than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
39. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
40. The Sorcerers Apprentice by Charles Johnson
41. Lot by Bryan Washington
42. Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
43. Selected Short Stories of Patricia Highsmith
44. Tender by Sofia Samatar (UTL online)
45. Sans Souci and other stories by Dionne Brand
46. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
47. Short Stories of Langston Hughes (UTL online)
48. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Robarts)
49. The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Robarts, Online)
50. Blue collar, white collar, no collar : stories of work
51. In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters by Robert Coover
52. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
53. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf (online)