List of Selected Short Stories for Student Assognment.

1. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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The following represents a partial list books in the library collection that may be of interest
to you for this assignment. Please search the Library Catalogue for these books.
Stories of
Author Title Description
Interest
Contemporary.
Adichie, The Thing Around "Cell One," The
Tensions between
Chimamanda Ngozi Your Neck Headstrong Historian"
Nigerian and Nigerian-
Americans.
"Every Little Hurricane,"
Native American.
"The Only Traffic Signal
The Lone Ranger and Fictional portrait of the
on the Reservation
Alexie, Sherman Tonto Fistfight in characters, themes, and
Doesn't Flash Red
Heaven language of the Spokane
Anymore"
Indian Reservation.
Native American.
Conflicts of Indian
The Toughest Indian "South by Southwest,"
Alexie, Sherman heritage and traditions
in the World "Assimilation"
with the realities of the
modern world.
Canadian. Novel in
stories of a woman's life
Atwood, Margaret Moral Disorder and loves. Moves
around in time 1930s-
1980s.
"In the Basement,"
Russian. Revolutionary
"Awakening," "The Sun
Babel, Isaac Collected Stories Russia. Russian-Jewish
of Italy," "My First
conflicts.
Goose"
"There Will Come Soft
Rains," "The Rocket,"
Fantasy fiction. Science
Bradbury, Ray Bradbury Stories "The Toynbee
fiction
Convector," "The Flying
Machine"
Borges, Jorge Luis Ficciones Spanish "The Library of Babel"
Stories about loneliness,
loss, the tragic banality "A Small, Good Thing,"
Carver, Raymond Cathedral
of everyday life, and "Fever"
redemption.
Where I'm Calling "Where I'm Calling
Carver, Raymond
From From"
American. Early 20th
Cather, Willa Five stories century. character-
driven
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2. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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"The Enormous Radio",
"The Hartleys," "The
Stories of John Sorrow of Gin,"
Cheever, John American, modern
Cheever "Reunion," "The Sutton
Place Story"
Russian social life.
The Stories of Anton Explores human
Chekhov, Anton
Tchekov behavior and
psychology.
Late 1880s. American.
Chopin, Kate The Awakening Role of women, early
feminist.
"Barbie-Q," "One Holy
Woman Hollering America/Mexico. Latina.
Cisneros, Sandra Night"
Creek Magical realism.
"White Nights"
The Best Short Stories Psychological fiction.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor , “ The Dream of a
of Dostoyevsky Russian.
Ridiculous Man”
Doyle, Sir Arthur The Adventures of
British mystery.
Conan Sherlock Holmes
“A Party down at the
African-American
Ellison, Ralph Flying Home Square," "Flying Home",
1930s-1950s.
“The Black Ball”
"The Offshore Pirate,"
"The Curious Case of
The Short Stories of F. Benjamin Button," "One
Fitzgerald, F. Scott American. Jazz-age.
Scott Fitzgerald Trip Abroad," "Babylon
Revisited"
"Maria dos
Prazeres,""Bon Voyage,
Garcia Marquez, Columbian. 1950s-
Strange Pilgrims Mr. President," "'I Only
Gabriel 1990s. Magic realism
Came to Use the Phone'"
“The Terrible
Short stories probe the
The Collected tales of Vengeance”, “The Diary
Nikolai Gogol mind of a man to reveal
Nikolai Gogol of a Madman”, “ The
his hidden motives.
Overcoat”
Compelling; Spare "The End of the Party,"
Greene, Graham 21 Stories British. writing style. Character- "The Blue Film," "The
driven. Destructors"
The Best of Bret Harte "The Luck of Roaring
Harte, Bret Western stories.
Camp"
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3. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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"The Minister's Black
Veil,""The Artist of the
Hawthorne, Hawthorne's Short
American. Mid 1800s Beautiful," "Rappaccini's
Nathaniel Stories
Daughter," "The
Birthmark"
"The Snows of
The Short Stories of Kilimanjaro," "The Short
Hemingway, Ernest Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway Happy Life of Francis
Macamber"
“Saratoga Rain”, “No
Folk African-American. Place to Make Love”, “On
The Short Stories of
Hughes, Langston 1920s. Harlem the Road”, “Little Old
Langston Hughes
Renaissance Spy”, “Slave on the
Block”
"The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" and "Rip Van
Winkle" have been
The Legend of Sleepy
called the first American
Irving, Washington Hollow and Other
short stories, although
Selections
both are actually
Americanized versions
of German folktales.
“Miss Gunton of
Complete Stories, New York and Boston, Poughkeepsie”, "The
James, Henry
1898-1910 early 20th century Velvet Glove", “Broken
Wings”, “The Papers”
Interpreter of "A Temporary Matter,"
Lahiri, Jhumpa Indian-American stories
Maladies "A Real Durwan"
“Hema and Kaushik”,
Unaccustomed American stories.
Lahiri, Jhumpa "Unaccustomed Earth",
EarthIndian Immigrant stories.
“Going Ashore””
Searoad : chronicles of Pacific Northwest.
LeGuin, Ursula
Klatsand Psychological fiction
“April in Paris”,
The Wind's Twelve Science Fiction. Fantasy “Winter's King”, “Vaster
LeGuin, Ursula
Quarters Fiction than empires and more
slow”
American. Stories about
Klondike Gold Rush,
Alaskan winters, “The White Silence”, The
London, Jack Northland Stories miners, immigrants, Some of the Wolf”,
Mexican “Where the Trail Forks”
Revolutionaries, and the
mentally ill.
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4. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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Australian. Role of
family, memory, exile, “Lone Pine”, “Blacksoil
Malouf, David Dream Stuff: Stories
and chance in the lives County”, “At Schindler’s”
of ordinary people.
New Zealand/Europe. "The Modern Soul," "A
The Garden Party: and Psychological drama. Dill Pickle," "Weak
Mansfield, Katherine
Other Stories Early 20th century. Heart."
Coming-of-age stories
Canadian.
“Dimensions," “Wenlock
Munro, Alice Too Much Happiness Contemporary.
Edge,” "Child's Play"
Psychological, haunting.
Fifteen stories about life
in rural Ontario deal
with adolescence,
"Boys and Girls," "Red
Dance of the Happy loneliness, broken
Munro, Alice. Dress"
Shades hearts, an abandoned
wife, family relations,
blind dates, and an
aspiring writer.
A compilation of short
fiction journeys from
the Scotland of the
author's own family
The View From Castle heritage and a ship en
Munro, Alice
Rock route to the New World,
to a family odyssey
from Illinois to Canada
and in and around Lake
Huron.
Tightly focused
narratives charged with “Insomnia”, “The Ice
Where is here?:
Oates, Joyce Carol tension, menace, and Pick”, “Angry”,
Stories
the shock of the “Running”
unexpected.
Wildcat," "A Stroke of
Good Fortune," "A Late
Southern America. Encounter with the
O'Connor, Flannery The Complete Stories
1950s. Dark. Disturbing. Enemy," "Greenfleaf,"
"The Life You Save May
Be Your Own"
“Big Blonde”, “Advice to
Darkly humorous. the Little Peyton Girl”,
Parker, Dorothy The Complete Stories Witty. Commentary on “The Cradle of
everyday life Civilization”, “Oh! He's
Charming!”
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5. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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“The Balloon-Hoax”,
“Eleonora”, “Ligeia”,
American.
Poe, Edgar Allan Thirty-two Stories “The Murders in the Rue
Horror/creepy.
Morgue”, “The Purloined
Letter”
“Bowl”, “Testimony of
the Donkey”, . “Family
Fine Just the Way It Is: Downtrodden country
Proulx, Annie Man,” “I've Always
Wyoming Stories folk
Loved This Place,”
“Swamp Mischief”
"For Esme- With Love
Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories American. 1950s. and Squalor," "A Perfect
Day for Bananafish"
"The Murder," "The
Steinbeck, John The Long Valley American. 1930s-1960s. Chrysanthemums,"
"Flight"
A collection of short
fiction includes tales set
in the author's native
Pennsylvania, the New “My Father's Tears”,
England suburbs, and “The Accelerating
My Father's Tears and
Updike, John foreign countries, all Expansion of the
Other Stories
depicting different Universe”, “The
facets of the American Laughter of the Gods”
experience from the
Depression through the
aftermath of 9/11.
American. Satire.
Welcome to the
Vonnegut, Kurt Science Fiction. Darkly "All the King's Horses"
Monkey House
Humerous.
African-American.
The Way Forward is Southern. Civil Rights
Walker, Alice "To My Young Husband"
with a Broken Heart Movement. Part
memoir, part fiction
American. Southern.
"Death of a Traveling
The Collected Stories Tranquil view of the
Welty, Eudora Salesman"
of Eudora Welty southern U.S.A. Small
town life.
Writing without “Housecleaning” by KSA
direction : 10 1/2 Brazier-Tompkins, “30
Various Authors -
short stories by ways to die” by Ashley
Canadian
Canadian authors Little”, “The embalmer's
under 30 heart” by Sandy
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6. Selected Short Story Suggestions
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In Spirit by Paddy Forde
The Ray-Gun: A Love
Collected here are the Story by James Alan
best recent works by Gardner
Hugo Award winners Bubbles and Boxes by
Spider Robinson, Julie E. Czerneda
Robert J. Sawyer, and Shed Skin by Robert J.
Distant early Robert Charles Wilson, Sawyer
Various Authors – warnings : Canada's Hugo nominees Paddy Halo by Karl Schroeder
Canadian best science fiction Forde, James Alan The Eyes of God by Peter
Gardner, Nalo Watts
Hopkinson, and Peter You Don’t Know My
Watts, and Aurora Heart by Spider
Award winners Julie E. Robinson
Czerneda and Karl A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy
Schroeder Dog by Nalo Hopkinson
The Cartesian Theatre by
Robert Charles Wilson
Authors: Wilson, Lisa.
Zaagidiwin is an Ojibwe
Hayden-Taylor, Drew.
word that loosely
Kolson, Bren.
translates as love. The
Dimaline, Cherie.
authors tackled the
Zaagidiwin is a many Toulouse, Colleen.
issue of love in this
splendoured thing : Daybutch, Damian.
collection that draws on
Various Aboriginal love, laughter & Nowgabow, Julian.
First Nations and Metis
Authors learning stories from Whitehead, Louis.
traditions and brings
Aboriginal writers Richmond-Saravia,
these personal stories
Michelle.
of love and loss to
Johnson, Nancy.
literacy audiences.
Sinclair, Thomas.
Caution: mature themes
Waubgeshig, Rice.
and content.
George, E. Priscilla.
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