less than 1 minute read

Short Stories

Best Short StoriesLesley Glaister's Top 12 Short Stories



James Joyce

Dubliners (1914)

Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party (1922)

J. D. Salinger

For Esmé, With Love and Squalor (1953)

Elizabeth Taylor

The Devastating Boys (1972)

Ian McEwan

First Love, Last Rites (1975)

William Trevor

Collected Stories (1983)

Raymond Carver

Elephant (1988)

James Kelman

The Burn (1991)

Alice Munro

Open Secrets (1994)

T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle (1998)

Lorrie Moore

Birds of America (1999)

Elizabeth Bowen

Collected Stories (1999)

Additional topics

Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionShort stories: Lesley Glaister