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. Snowfall by Deesha Philyaw
7. When Eddie Levert Comes by Deesha Philyaw
8. The Republic of Empathy by Sam Lipsyte (New Yorker)
9. Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear
10. St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell (online)
11. Slingshot by Souvankham Thammavongsa - How to Pronounce Knife Collection
12. Petra by Greg Egan
13. Rondine al Nido by Claire Vaye Watkins
14. Allah Have Mercy by Mohammed Naseehu Ali (New Yorker)
15. Shock of Birth by Cadwell Turnbull
16. Trebuchet by Avitus B Carle
17. The Face in the Mirror by Mohsin Hamid (New Yorker)
18. The Metal Bowl by Miranda July (New Yorker)
19. Wangs Carpets by Greg Egan
20. Goodbye to the Road Not Taken by A.M. Homes
21. Extra by Yiyun Li
22. The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard
23. The Wind by Lauren Groff
24. The price by Neil Gaiman
25. Hide & Seek by P. Djeli Clark
26. Sara Cole: A Type of Love Story by Russell Banks
27. The Clearing by Luisa Mercedes Levinson
28. Two men by andrew porter
29. All Will be Well by Yiyun Li
30. Who, me a bum? by Luisa Valenzuela
31. A family supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
32. The Man of the World by Frank O'Connor (online)
33. Paycheck by PKD
34. Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek
35. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
36. The Infamous Bengal Ming” by Rajesh Parameswaran (online)
37. Separating by John Updike
38. The Bulgarian Poetess by John Updike
39. A Conversation with my Father by Grace Paley
40. Los Angeles by Ling Ma
41. The Re-Encounter by Isaac Bashevis Singer
42. Taking Care by Joy Williams
43. China by Charles Johnson
44. Story by Lydia Davis
45. The Last Thing we Need by Claire Vaye Watkins
46. The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
47. Sweethearts by Richard Ford (online)
48. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (online)
49. Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
50. Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
51. The Killers by Hemingway
52. The Hitchhikers by Eudora Welty
53. Blood-burning Moon by Jean Toomer
54. Axolotl by Julio Cortazar 
55. Ambush by Donna Tartt
56. After Rain by William Trevor
57. Ten Year affair by Erin Somers
58. The Match by Colson Whitehead
59. The interior castle by Jean Stafford
60. Standard Loneliness package by Charles Lu
61. Resurrection of life by William Saroyan
62. The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin by Tennessee Williams
63. Rules of the game by Amy Tan
64. Country Husband by John Cheever
65. Slaves on the Block by Langston Hughes
66. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
67. The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí Clark
68. You're Ugly too by Lorrie Moore
69. Koolau the Leper by Jack London
70. Negore, The Coward by Jack London
71. The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
72. ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
73. *virginia is not your home*
74. The Way Up To Heaven, by Roald Dahl
75. Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl
76. Terminus by Stanislaw Lem
77. The Key by Isaac Bashevis Singer
78. All the King’s Horses by Vonnegut
79. The Caress by Greg Egan
80. The Night we all had grippe by Shirley Jackson (online)
81. 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)