Short Story Magic Tricks Index By Chronology

1706

‘The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal’ by Daniel Defoe

1747

‘The Speech Of Polly Baker’ by Benjamin Franklin

1807

‘The Earthquake In Chile’ by Heinrich von Kleist

1810

‘The Beggarwoman Of Locarno’ by Heinrich von Kleist

1819

‘Rip Van Winkle’ by Washington Irving

1820

‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ by Washington Irving

1822

‘The Stout Gentleman’ by Washington Irving

1824

‘The Adventure Of The German Student’ by Washington Irving

‘The Bold Dragoon, Or The Adventure Of My Grandfather’ by Washington Irving

‘The Devil And Tom Walker’ by Washington Irving

1829

‘Mateo Falcone’ by Prosper Mérimée

1830

‘A Passion In The Desert’ by Honoré de Balzac

‘St. John’s Eve’ by Nikolai Gogol

1831

‘My Kinsman, Major Molineaux’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Shot’ by Alexander Pushkin

‘The Undertaker’ by Alexander Pushkin

1832

‘The Unknown Masterpiece’ by Honoré de Balzac

‘Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka And His Aunt’ by Nikolai Gogol

‘The Maypole Of Merry-Mount’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Legend Of The Two Discreet Statues’ by Washington Irving

1834

‘The Queen Of Spades’ by Alexander Pushkin

1835

‘Diary Of A Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol

‘Nevsky Prospect’ by Nikolai Gogol

‘The Haunted Mind’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Wakefield’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Young Goodman Brown’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1836

‘The Carriage’ by Nikolai Gogol

‘The Nose’ by Nikolai Gogol

1837

‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ by Hans Christian Andersen

‘Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Man Of Adamant’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Prophetic Pictures’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1838

‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ by Hans Christian Andersen

1839

‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1840

‘John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1841

‘Descent Into The Maelstrom’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘Wild Frank’s Return’ by Walt Whitman

1842

‘The Overcoat’ by Nikolai Gogol

‘The Masque Of The Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘The Pit And The Pendulum’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1843

‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Andersen

‘The Birth-Mark’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1844

‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Angel Of The Odd’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1845

‘The Little Match Girl’ by Hans Christian Andersen

‘The Tiger Of The Plains’ by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

‘Ligeia’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘One Wicked Impulse!’ by Walt Whitman

1846

‘The Christmas Banquet’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘The Cask Of Amontillado’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘The Sphinx’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1847

‘A Novel In Nine Letters’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1848

‘The Shirt-Collar’ by Hans Christian Andersen

‘A Christmas Tree And A Wedding’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘An Honest Thief’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1849

‘Hop-Frog’ by Edgar Allan Poe

1850

‘The Christmas Tree’ by Charles Dickens

‘Christmas; Or, The Good Fairy’ by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1852

‘The Poor Relation’s Story’ by Charles Dickens

‘Feathertop’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Behzin Meadow’ by Ivan Turgenev

‘The Country Doctor’ by Ivan Turgenev

‘Khor And Kalinich’ by Ivan Turgenev

‘Prince Hamlet Of Shchrigrovo’ by Ivan Turgenev

‘The Singers’ by Ivan Turgenev

‘Two Landowners’ by Ivan Turgenev

1853

‘Nobody’s Story’ by Charles Dickens

‘Bartleby, The Scrivener’ by Herman Melville

‘The Tryst’ by Ivan Turgenev

1854

‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ by Herman Melville

1855

‘The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn’ by Charles Dickens

1859

‘The Haunted And The Haunters’ by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

‘A Haunted House’ by Charles Dickens

‘Hunted Down’ by Charles Dickens

1863

‘How To Cure A Cold’ by Mark Twain

1864

‘Phantoms’ by Ivan Turgenev

1865

‘The Crocodile’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘He Who Listens May Hear – To His Regret: Confidence Of A Confidence’ by Juana Manuela Gorriti

‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County’ by Mark Twain

1867

‘The White Maniac – A Doctor’s Tale’ by Mary Fortune

‘My Friend Bingham’ by Henry James

1868

‘The Luck Of Roaring Camp’ by Bret Harte

‘Niagara’ by Mark Twain

1869

‘Marjorie Daw’ by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘The Outcasts Of Poker Flat’ by Bret Harte

‘Tennessee’s Partner’ by Bret Harte

‘The Gray Hare’ by Leo Tolstoy

1871

‘Master Eustace’ by Henry James

1872

‘God Sees The Truth, But Waits’ by Leo Tolstoy

1873

‘Bobok’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1876

‘The Beggar Boy At Christ’s Christmas Tree’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘The Peasant Marey’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut’ by Mark Twain

1877

‘The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘Saint Julian The Hospitaller’ by Gustave Flaubert

‘A Lodging For The Night’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

1878

‘A Bundle Of Letters’ by Henry James

‘The Sire de Maletroit’s Door’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

‘A Presidential Candidate’ by Mark Twain

1880

‘Boule de Suif’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘A Dead Woman’s Secrets’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘What Stumped The Blue-Jays’ by Mark Twain

‘The Flood’ by Emile Zola

1881

‘An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving’ by Louisa May Alcott

‘The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story’ by Joel Chandler Harris

‘The Coming Of The King’ by Laura E. Richards

‘Thrawn Janet’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

1882

‘A Country Christmas’ by Louisa May Alcott

‘The Adopted Son’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘Christmas Eve’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Log’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘A Sister’s Confession’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Thief’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Lady, Or The Tiger?’ by Frank Stockton

1883

‘The Death Of A Government Clerk’ by Anton Chekhov

‘An Enigmatic Nature’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Fat And Thin’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Rapture’ by Anton Chekhov

‘A Singular Occurrence’ by Machado de Assis

‘Miss Harriet’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘A Piece Of String’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘Rose’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Terror’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘An Uncomfortable Bed’ by Guy de Maupassant

1884

‘Chameleon’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Oysters’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Confessing’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘Idyll’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘Mother Savage’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Body Snatcher’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

1885

‘Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Huntsman’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Looking Glass’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Hidden Cause’ by Machado de Assis

‘Markheim’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Wisdom Of Children’ by Leo Tolstoy

1886

‘A Day In The Country’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Husband’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Misery’ by Anton Chekhov

‘An Upheaval’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Vanka’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Christmas Masquerade’ by Mary Wilkins Freeman

‘A White Heron’ by Sarah Orne Jewett

‘Mademoiselle Pearl’ by Guy de Maupassant

‘The Christmas Wreck’ by Frank Stockton

‘How Much Land Does A Man Need?’ by Leo Tolstoy

‘The Three Hermits’ by Leo Tolstoy

‘The Two Brothers And The Gold’ by Leo Tolstoy

1887

‘Killed At Resaca’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘A Drama’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Kiss’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Lottery Ticket’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Polinka’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Man-Size In Marble’ by Edith Nesbit

‘The Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant

1888

‘Four Days In Dixie’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Beauties’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Party’ by Anton Chekhov

‘A Story Without A Title’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Devoted Friend’ by Oscar Wilde

‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde

‘The Nightingale And The Rose’ by Oscar Wilde

‘The Remarkable Rocket’ by Oscar Wilde

‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde

1889

‘Chickamauga’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘A Horseman In The Sky’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘One Officer, One Man’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Darling’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Going To Shrewsbury’ by Sarah Orne Jewett

‘A Winter Courtship’ by Sarah Orne Jewett

1890

‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce

1891

‘A Baby Tramp’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Boarded Window’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Death Of Halpin Frayser’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘A Case Of Identity’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Five Orange Pips’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Red-Headed League’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘A Scandal In Bohemia’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Child’s Return’ by Rabindraneth Tagore

‘The Postmaster’ by Rabindranath Tagore

1892

‘Peter’ by Willa Cather

‘After The Theatre’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Four Men In A Cave’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Adventure Of The Speckled Band’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Madame de Luzy’ by Anatole France

‘Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings’ by Mary Wilkins Freeman

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

‘Greville Fane’ by Henry James

‘Decoration Day’ by Sarah Orne Jewett

‘The Homecoming’ by Rabindraneth Tagore

1893

‘One Summer Night’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘Désirée’s Baby’ by Kate Chopin

‘The Adventure Of The Musgrave Ritual’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Final Problem’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Christmas Every Day’ by William Dean Howells

‘The Middle Years’ by Henry James

‘The Coffee-House Of Surat’ by Leo Tolstoy

‘The Dark Lantern’ by Jules Renard

‘Is He Living Or Is He Dead?’ by Mark Twain

‘The Fullness Of Life’ by Edith Wharton

1894

‘The Black Monk’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Student’ by Anton Chekhov

‘La Belle Zoraide’ by Kate Chopin

‘A Respectable Woman’ by Kate Chopin

‘The Story Of An Hour’ by Kate Chopin

‘An Experiment In Misery’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Pace Of Youth’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Doll’s Ghost’ by F. Marion Crawford

‘Change Of Treatment’ by W.W. Jacobs

‘Midnight Mass’ by Machado de Assis

‘The Treasure In The Forest’ by H.G. Wells

1895

‘Her Letters’ by Kate Chopin

‘Regret’ by Kate Chopin

‘Little Miss Sophie’ by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

‘The Altar Of The Dead’ by Henry James

1896

‘The Striding Place’ by Gertrude Atherton

‘The Burglar’s Christmas’ by Willa Cather

‘On The Divide’ by Willa Cather

‘The Strategy Of The Were-Wolf Dog’ by Willa Cather

‘The House With The Mezzanine’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Ozème’s Holiday’ by Kate Chopin

‘The Snake’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Yellow Paint’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

1897

‘Nanette: An Aside’ by Willa Cather

‘In The Cart’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Fedora’ by Kate Chopin

‘A Pair Of Silk Stockings’ by Kate Chopin

‘The Open Boat’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Crystal Egg’ by H.G. Wells

1898

‘The Way Of The World’ by Willa Cather

‘About Love’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Gooseberries’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Man In A Case’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky’ by Stephen Crane

‘His New Mittens’ by Stephen Crane

‘The Prize Lodger’ by George Gissing

‘How The Camel Got His Hump’ by Rudyard Kipling

‘The Stolen Body’ by H.G. Wells

‘The Pelican’ by Edith Wharton

1899

‘The Lady With The Little Dog’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Ingrate’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar

‘Tony’s Wife’ by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

‘Paste’ by Henry James

1900

‘The Sentimentality Of William Tavener’ by Willa Cather

‘At Christmas Time’ by Anton Chekhov

‘The Fight’ by Stephen Crane

‘An Old-Time Christmas’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar

‘The Cat’ by Mary Wilkins Freeman

‘Miss Gunton From Poughkeepsie’ by Henry James

‘The Special Type’ by Henry James

‘The Tree Of Knowledge’ by Henry James

‘New Year’s Night’ by Henry Lawson

‘The Path To The Cemetery’ by Thomas Mann

‘How Old Timofei Died With A Song’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

‘The Stranger’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

‘April Showers’ by Edith Wharton

1901

‘A Dark Brown Dog’ by Stephen Crane

1902

‘The Bishop’ by Anton Chekhov

‘Luella Miller’ by Mary Wilkins Freeman

‘The Duplicity Of Hargraves’ by O. Henry

‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by W.W. Jacobs

‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’ by Edith Wharton

1903

‘A Death In The Desert’ by Willa Cather

‘The Adventure Of The Dancing Men’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Adventure Of The Empty House’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Wind In The Rose-Bush’ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

‘A Retrieved Reformation’ by O. Henry

‘Home Sickness’ by George Moore

‘Work, Death, And Sickness’ by Leo Tolstoy

‘The Magic Shop’ by H.G. Wells

1904

‘A Kidnapped Santa Claus’ by L. Frank Baum

‘A Wagner Matinée’ by Willa Cather

‘The Adventure Of Abbey Grange’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Lynching Of Jube Benson’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar

‘The Cop And The Anthem’ by O. Henry

‘The Furnished Room’ by O. Henry

‘Transients In Arcadia’ by O. Henry

‘After The Race’ by James Joyce

‘Eveline’ by James Joyce

‘The Sisters’ by James Joyce

‘The $30,000 Bequest’ by Mark Twain

‘The Descent Of Man’ by Edith Wharton

‘The Other Two’ by Edith Wharton

1905

‘A Vine On A House’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘The Garden Lodge’ by Willa Cather

‘Paul’s Case’ by Willa Cather

‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’ by Willa Cather

‘The Clarion Call’ by O. Henry

‘The Gift Of The Magi’ by O. Henry

‘Alyosha The Pot’ by Leo Tolstoy

‘The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid’ by H.G. Wells

1906

‘A Baffled Ambuscade’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘After Twenty Years’ by O. Henry

‘The Green Door’ by O. Henry

‘The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein’ by O. Henry

‘Mammon And The Archer’ by O. Henry

‘The Romance Of A Busy Broker’ by O. Henry

‘The Skylight Room’ by O. Henry

‘Tobin’s Palm’ by O. Henry

‘Hunting The Deceitful Turkey’ by Mark Twain

1907

‘The Namesake’ by Willa Cather

‘The Profile’ by Willa Cather

‘Christmas By Injunction’ by O. Henry

‘The Princess And The Puma’ by O. Henry

‘The Ransom Of Red Chief’ by O. Henry

‘Two Thanksgiving Gentlemen’ by O. Henry

‘The Story Of Keesh’ by Jack London

‘Filial Sentiments Of A Parricide’ by Marcel Proust

1908

‘A Resumed Identity’ by Ambrose Bierce

‘On The Gull’s Road’ by Willa Cather

‘To Build A Fire’ by Jack London

1909

‘The Enchanted Bluff’ by Willa Cather

‘Christmas At Red Butte’ by Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘The Decapitated Chicken’ by Horacio Quiroga

‘Afterward’ by Edith Wharton

‘His Father’s Son’ by Edith Wharton

1910

‘The Wrong Shape’ by G.K. Chesterton

‘The Baby In Pink Tarlatan’ by Joaõ do Rio

‘August Heat’ by W.F. Harvey

‘My Financial Career’ by Stephen Leacock

‘The Pitcher And The Plutocrat’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1911

‘The Hammer Of God’ by G.K. Chesterton

‘The Queer Feet’ by G.K. Chesterton

‘The Odour Of Chrysanthemums’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘Bertie’s Christmas Eve’ by Saki

1912

‘Unhappiness’ by Franz Kafka

‘The Man Who Disliked Cats’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1913

‘The Judgment’ by Franz Kafka

‘Grandmother’s Christmas Story’ by Faith Wynne

1914

‘The Coin Of Dionysius’ by Ernest Bramah

‘Araby’ by James Joyce

‘The Boarding House’ by James Joyce

‘Clay’ by James Joyce

‘Counterparts’ by James Joyce

‘The Dead’ by James Joyce

‘An Encounter’ by James Joyce

‘Grace’ by James Joyce

‘Ivy Day In The Committee Room’ by James Joyce

‘A Little Cloud’ by James Joyce

‘A Mother’ by James Joyce

‘A Painful Case’ by James Joyce

‘Two Gallants’ by James Joyce

‘The Prussian Officer’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘Second Best’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘Merry Christmas’ by Stephen Leacock

‘The Feast Of Nemesis’ by Saki

‘The Lumber-Room’ by Saki

‘The Open Window’ by Saki

‘The Triumph Of Night’ by Edith Wharton

1915

‘At Grandmother’s’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Braider’ by Ricardo Güiraldes

‘Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor’ by Franz Kafka

‘Alibi Ike’ by Ring Lardner

‘Zelig’ by Benjamin Rosenblatt

‘The Survivors’ by Elsie Singmaster

‘The Mixer II: He Moves In Society’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1916

‘Hands’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Paper Pills’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Queer’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Story Of My Dovecote’ by Isaac Babel

‘A.V. Laider’ by Max Beerbohm

‘The Lost Phoebe’ by Theodore Dreiser

‘Champion’ by Ring Lardner

‘Twilight’ by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

‘The Hedgehog’ by Saki

‘Leave It To Jeeves’ by P.G. Wodehouse

‘The Man With Two Left Feet’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1917

‘Mother’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Thinker’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Untold Lie’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘A Gold Slipper’ by Willa Cather

‘A Jury Of Her Peers’ by Susan Glaspell

‘Ghost Patrol’ by Sinclair Lewis

‘Jeeves And The Hard-Boiled Egg’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1918

‘An Awakening’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘A Man Of Ideas’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Bliss’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘The War Of The Alligators’ by Horacio Quiroga

‘Diary Of A Madman’ by Lu Xun

1919

‘Adventure’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Death’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Departure’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Drink’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Godliness’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Loneliness’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Nobody Knows’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Philosopher’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Respectability’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Sophistication’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Strength Of God’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Tandy’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Teacher’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Mary Elizabeth’ by Jessie Faucet

‘A Country Doctor’ by Franz Kafka

‘An Imperial Message’ by Franz Kafka

‘In The Penal Colony’ by Franz Kafka

‘Tickets, Please!’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘The Errors Of Santa Claus’ by Stephen Leacock

‘The Interlopers’ by Saki

‘Kew Gardens’ by Virginia Woolf

‘Medicine’ by Lu Xun

1920

‘The Other Woman’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Benediction’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Cut-Glass Bowl’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Ice Palace’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Jelly-Bean’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘May Day’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Offshore Pirate’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Blind Man’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘The Lady’s Maid’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘The Dead Man’ by Horacio Quiroga

‘Footfalls’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele

‘Storm In A Teacup’ by Lu Xun

‘Tomorrow’ by Lu Xun

1921

‘The New Englander’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Unlighted Lamps’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Dusky Ruth’ by A.E. Coppard

‘Some Like Them Cold’ by Ring Lardner

‘At The Bay’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘The Garden Party’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf

1922

‘Brothers’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘I’m A Fool’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘The Leather Funnel’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Diamond As Big As The Ritz’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Winter Dreams’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Hunger Artist’ by Franz Kafka

‘The Married Couple’ by Franz Kafka

‘The Golden Honeymoon’ by Ring Lardner

‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘The Doll’s House’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield

‘Aunt Agatha Takes The Count’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1923

‘How Things Were Done In Odessa’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Return’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Case Of The Missing Will’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Chocolate Box’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Mystery Of Hunter’s Lodge’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor’ by Agatha Christie

‘Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘My Old Man’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Becky’ by Jean Toomer

‘Blood-Burning Moon’ by Jean Toomer

‘Esther’ by Jean Toomer

‘Fern’ by Jean Toomer

1924

‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell

‘The Sensible Thing’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Drenched In Light’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘A Little Woman’ by Franz Kafka

‘The Thunderstorm’ by Vladimir Nabokov

1925

‘Strange Moonlight’ by Conrad Aiken

‘First Love’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Parrot’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘The Veiled Lady’ by Agatha Christie

‘Witness For The Prosecution’ by Agatha Christie

‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Cat In The Rain’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Soldier’s Home’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Magnolia Flower’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘Spunk’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘Haircut’ by Ring Lardner

‘Christmas’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Man Who Saw Through Heaven’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele

‘Miss Mary Pask’ by Edith Wharton

‘Honeysuckle Cottage’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1926

‘Death In The Woods’ by Sherwood Anderson

‘Afonka Bida’ by Isaac Babel

‘After The Battle’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Continuation Of The Story Of A Horse’ by Isaac Babel

‘Dolgushov’s Death’ by Isaac Babel

‘Ivan And Ivan’ by Isaac Babel

‘My First Goose’ by Isaac Babel

‘Salt’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Story Of A Horse’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Widow’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Oracle Of The Dog’ by G.K. Chesterton

‘In Another Country’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Eatonville Anthology’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘Muttsy’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘Freedom’ by Nella Larsen

‘The Wrong Man’ by Nella Larsen

‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘A Nursery Tale’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Jeeves And The Impending Doom’ by P.G. Wodehouse

‘Lord Emsworth Acts For The Best’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1927

‘A Wedding-Dress’ by Morley Callaghan

‘A Short Trip Home’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Che Ti Dice La Patria?’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘The Killers’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘A Simple Enquiry’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Ten Indians’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Two Blue Birds’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘Liquor Makes You Smart’ by Anita Loos

‘The Colour Out Of Space’ by H.P. Lovecraft

‘An Affair Of Honor’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘He’ by Katherine Anne Porter

‘A Visit From Saint Nicholas (In The Ernest Hemingway Manner)’ by James Thurber

‘Jeeves And The Yule-Tide Spirit’ by P.G. Wodehouse

‘Pig-hoo-o-o-o-e-y’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1928

‘The Bowl’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Ex Parte’ by Ring Lardner

‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ by D.H. Lawrence

‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ by H.P. Lovecraft

‘He Also Loved’ by Claude McKay

‘The Christmas Story’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘A Telephone Call’ by Dorothy Parker

‘The Fascinating Problem Of Uncle Meleager’s Will’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘Company For Gertrude’ by P.G. Wodehouse

‘Lord Emsworth And The Girlfriend’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1929

‘In The Basement’ by Isaac Babel

‘The Jungle’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘Double Birthday’ by Willa Cather

‘Wild Plums’ by Grace Stone Coates

‘Nightfall’ by Daniel Corkery

‘The Swimmers’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Between The Halves’ by John O’Hara

‘But The One On The Right’ by Dorothy Parker

‘Jeeves And The Song Of Songs’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1930

‘The Legend Of ‘El Cadejo’’ by Miguel Angel Asturias

‘Her Table Spread’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘The Faithful Wife’ by Morley Callaghan

‘A Rose For Emily’ by William Faulkner

‘The Bridal Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Sanctuary’ by Nella Larsen

‘The Little Wife’ by William March

‘A Dashing Fellow’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Prodigal’ by Laura D. Nichols

‘Theft’ by Katherine Anne Porter

‘White On Black’ by Tess Slesinger

1931

‘The Gentle Libertine’ by Colette

‘Dry September’ by William Faulkner

‘Hair’ by William Faulkner

‘That Evening Sun’ by William Faulkner

‘Babylon Revisited’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Guests Of The Nation’ by Frank O’Connor

‘The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall’ by Katherine Anne Porter

‘The Greatest Man In The World’ by James Thurber

‘Pomegranate Seed’ by Edith Wharton

‘The Go-Getter’ by P.G. Wodehouse

1932

‘Guy de Maupassant’ by Isaac Babel

‘Warm River’ by Erskine Caldwell

‘Death Drag’ by William Faulkner

‘Truant’ by Claude McKay

‘Music’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Dancing Dan’s Christmas’ by Damon Runyon

‘The Man Who Knew How’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘How Beautiful With Shoes’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele

1933

‘Too Early Spring’ by Stephen Vincent Benét

‘A Summer Tragedy’ by Arna Bontemps

‘The Lamp’ by Agatha Christie

‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘Homage To Switzerland’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘One Christmas Eve’ by Langston Hughes

‘Slave On The Block’ by Langston Hughes

‘The Gilded Six-Bits’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘The Waltz’ by Dorothy Parker

‘The Fountain Plays’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘The Gift’ by John Steinbeck

‘The Great Mountains’ by John Steinbeck

‘The Murder’ by John Steinbeck

‘The Car We Had To Push’ by James Thurber

‘The Day The Dam Broke’ by James Thurber

‘The Night The Bed Fell’ by James Thurber

‘University Days’ by James Thurber

1934

‘Impulse’ by Conrad Aiken

‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’ by Conrad Aiken

‘A Deserted Street’ by Tawfiq Al-Hakim

‘Thirst’ by Ivo Andric

‘Miss Marple Tells A Story’ by Agatha Christie

‘A Bear Hunt’ by William Faulkner

‘Wash’ by William Faulkner

‘Passing’ by Langston Hughes

‘Sucker’ by Carson McCullers

‘A Russian Beauty’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Over The River And Through The Wood’ by John O’Hara

‘Sense Of Humor’ by Damon Runyon

‘An Arrow O’er The House’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘Dilemma’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘The Burning Baby’ by Dylan Thomas

‘My Father Sits In The Dark’ by Jerome Weidman

‘Roman Fever’ by Edith Wharton

1935

‘Kneel To The Rising Sun’ by Erskine Caldwell

‘The Night Of Chancellorsville’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Last Day In The Field’ by Caroline Gordon

‘The Haunter Of The Dark’ by H.P. Lovecraft

‘Breaking The News’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Grave’ by Katherine Anne Porter

‘Resurrection Of A Life’ by William Saroyan

‘A Couple Of Hamburgers’ by James Thurber

‘Circus At Dawn’ by Thomas Wolfe

1936

‘The Devil And Daniel Webster’ by Stephen Vincent Benét

‘The Approach To Al-Mu’tasim’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘Bayonne’ by John Cheever

‘The Basement Room’ by Graham Greene

‘The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘The Snows Of Kilimanjaro’ by Ernest Hemingway

‘The Destiny Of A Professor’s Wife’ by Daniil Kharms

‘Wunderkind’ by Carson McCullers

‘Spring In Fialta’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Christmas Morning’ by Frank O’Connor

‘A Life In The Day Of A Writer’ by Tess Slesinger

‘The Breaking Up Of The Winships’ by James Thurber

‘The Wood Duck’ by James Thurber

‘When The Light Gets Green’ by Robert Penn Warren

‘Death Of A Traveling Salesman’ by Eudora Welty

‘Only The Dead Know Brooklyn’ by Thomas Wolfe

‘Big Boy Leaves Home’ by Richard Wright

1937

‘Di Grasso’ by Isaac Babel

‘By The Waters Of Babylon’ by Stephen Vincent Benét

‘The Night’s For Cryin’’ by Chester Himes

‘Cloud, Castle, Lake’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘My Girls’ by John O’Hara

‘Suspicion’ by Dorothy Sayers

‘The Leader Of The People’ by John Steinbeck

‘The Promise’ by John Steinbeck

‘The Iron City’ by Lovell Thompson

‘Christmas Gift’ by Robert Penn Warren

‘Lily Daw And The Three Ladies’ by Eudora Welty

‘A Memory’ by Eudora Welty

‘A Piece Of News’ by Eudora Welty

‘The Crime Wave At Blandings’ by P.G. Wodehouse

‘The Man Who Saw The Flood’ by Richard Wright

1938

‘The Genuine Tabard’ by E.C. Bentley

‘Ben’ by Kay Boyle

‘Christ In Concrete’ by Pietro di Donato

‘Financing Finnegan’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Actual Thing’ by William Maxwell

‘Homecoming’ by William Maxwell

‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck

‘Leiningen Versus The Ants’ by Carl Stephenson

‘A Curtain Of Green’ by Eudora Welty

‘The Use Of Force’ by William Carlos Williams

‘The Duchess And The Jeweller’ by Virginia Woolf

‘Lappin And Lapinova’ by Virginia Woolf

‘Bright And Morning Star’ by Richard Wright

1939

‘Condemned House’ by Lucille Boehm

‘The Two Kings And The Two Labyrinths’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Mystery Of The Spanish Chest’ by Agatha Christie

‘Santa Claus Is A White Man’ by John Henrik Clarke

‘Barn Burning’ by William Faulkner

‘Hand Upon The Waters’ by William Faulkner

‘The Lost Decade’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Young Francis Whitehead’ by William Maxwell

‘The Facts Of Life’ by Somerset Maugham

‘First Confession’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Girls In Their Summer Dresses’ by Irwin Shaw

‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ by James Thurber

‘The Unicorn In The Garden’ by James Thurber

‘Keela, The Outcast Indian Maiden’ by Eudora Welty

‘Petrified Man’ by Eudora Welty

‘The Door’ by E.B. White

‘Almos’ A Man’ by Richard Wright

1940

‘The Circular Ruins’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Fight Of The Good Ship Clarissa’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Boy Who Painted Christ Black’ by John Henrik Clarke

‘Armistice’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Pelican’s Shadow’ by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

‘Extraordinary Little Cough’ by Dylan Thomas

‘Clytie’ by Eudora Welty

1941

‘The Garden Of The Forking Paths’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Library Of Babel’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘Men’ by Kay Boyle

‘Nothing Ever Breaks Except The Heart’ by Kay Boyle

‘The Net’ by Robert M. Coates

‘The Tall Men’ by William Faulkner

‘Those As Are Brothers’ by Nancy Hale

‘One Friday Morning’ by Langston Hughes

‘The Jockey’ by Carson McCullers

‘Madame Zilensky And The King Of Finland’ by Carson McCullers

‘The Standard Of Living’ by Dorothy Parker

‘Rain On Tanyard Hollow’ by Jesse Stuart

‘The Walled Garden’ by Peter Taylor

‘You Could Look It Up’ by James Thurber

‘Why I Live At The P.O.’ by Eudora Welty

‘A Worn Path’ by Eudora Welty

1942

‘The Photograph’ by Enrique Amorim

‘Death And The Compass’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Mysterious Kor’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘De Mortuis’ by John Collier

‘My Mother’ by Andre Gide

‘Georgetown Nights’ by Nancy Hale

‘The Peach Stone’ by Paul Horgan

‘Brother Boniface’ by Mary Lavin

‘Correspondence’ by Carson McCullers

‘Ultima Thule’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Search Through The Streets Of The City’ by Irwin Shaw

‘The Catbird Seat’ by James Thurber

‘The Wide Net’ by Eudora Welty

1943

‘The Secret Miracle’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘Then We’ll Set It Right’ by Robert Gorham Davis

‘Shall Not Perish’ by William Faulkner

‘Shingles For The Lord’ by William Faulkner

‘Who Lived And Died Believing’ by Nancy Hale

‘Afternoon In Linen’ by Shirley Jackson

‘Sarah’ by Mary Lavin

‘A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud’ by Carson McCullers

‘Graven Image’ by John O’Hara

‘Dawn Of Remembered Spring’ by Jesse Stuart

‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip Van Doren Stern

1944

‘The Wind And The Snow Of Winter’ by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

‘The Fashion Plate’ by Rhys Davies

‘Brigid’ by Mary Lavin

‘A Wet Day’ by Mary Lavin

‘The Company Is Not Responsible’ by Mary McCarthy

‘The Piano’ by Anibal Monteiro Machado

‘The Mad Lomasneys’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Upturned’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Nest Egg’ by Jesse Stuart

‘Of This Time, Of That Place’ by Lionel Trilling

‘Health Card’ by Frank Yerby

1945

‘The Aleph’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen

‘A Day In The Open’ by Jane Bowles

‘Miriam’ by Truman Capote

‘My Side Of The Matter’ by Truman Capote

‘The Lottery Ticket’ by Ventura García Calderón

‘The Heroine’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘Where The Door Is Always Open And The Welcome Mat Is Out’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Crime Of The Mathematics Professor’ by Clarice Lispector

‘The Patterns Of Love’ by William Maxwell

‘News For The Church’ by Frank O’Connor

‘The Trout’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘So Peaceful In The Country’ by Carl Ruthven Offord

‘The Pretty Daughters’ by John O’Hara

1946

‘On Exactitude In Science’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘And/Or’ by Sterling Brown

‘Love Far From Home’ by Italo Calvino

‘The Sutton Place Story’ by John Cheever

‘House Taken Over’ by Julio Cortázar

‘An Error In Chemistry’ by William Faulkner

‘The Widow’s Son’ by Mary Lavin

‘The Dinner’ by Clarice Lispector

‘Waves Of Darkness’ by Cord Meyer Jr.

‘The Wisdom Of Eve’ by Mary Orr

‘Medal From Jerusalem’ by Irwin Shaw

‘As Ye Sows, So Shall Ye Reap’ by Jesse Stuart

‘Battle With The Bees’ by Jesse Stuart

‘The Moon Child Of Wolfe Creek’ by Jesse Stuart

‘This Farm For Sale’ by Jesse Stuart

‘The Homecoming’ by Frank Yerby

1947

‘Do Stay, Giraffe’ by Wolfgang Borchert

‘A Distant Episode’ by Paul Bowles

‘I See You Never’ by Ray Bradbury

‘A Wreath For Miss Totten’ by Hortense Calisher

‘The Beautiful Mountains’ by John Cheever

‘The Enormous Radio’ by John Cheever

‘Roseheath’ by John Cheever

‘Torch Song’ by John Cheever

‘Peyo Mercé: English Teacher’ by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro

‘The Sugawn Chair’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘Unholy Living And Half Dying’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘Solo On The Drums’ by Ann Petry

‘The Valiant Woman’ by J.F. Powers

‘What We Don’t Know Hurts Us’ by Mark Schorer

‘The Interior Castle’ by Jean Stafford

‘Uncles’ by Peter Taylor

‘The Evolution Of Knowledge’ by Niccolo Tucci

‘Blackberry Winter’ by Robert Penn Warren

‘The Patented Gate And The Mean Hamburger’ by Robert Penn Warren

‘The Richer, The Poorer’ by Dorothy West

‘Probably Shakespeare’ by Jessamyn West

1948

‘The Supper’ by Tadeusz Borowski

‘-And The Moon Be Still As Bright’ by Ray Bradbury

‘Asleep In Armageddon’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Off Season’ by Ray Bradbury

‘Referent’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The End Of The World’ by Dino Buzzati

‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote

‘A Tree Of Night’ by Truman Capote

‘O City Of Broken Dreams’ by John Cheever

‘Man From The South’ by Roald Dahl

‘Dirty Deceivers’ by Chester Himes

‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson

‘First Love’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘Symbols And Signs’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Barber’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Train’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Drunkard’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Judas’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Innocence’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘Just Before The War With The Eskimos’ by J.D. Salinger

‘A Perfect Day For Bananafish’ by J.D. Salinger

‘Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut’ by J.D. Salinger

‘Children Are Bored On Sunday’ by Jean Stafford

‘The View From The Balcony’ by Wallace Stegner

‘Goodwood Comes Back’ by Robert Penn Warren

‘The Mysteries Of Life In An Orderly Manner’ by Jessamyn West

‘The Angel In The Alcove’ by Tennessee Williams

1949

‘Christmas Is A Sad Season For The Poor’ by John Cheever

‘The Hartleys’ by John Cheever

‘The NRACP’ by George P. Elliott

‘Mama’s Missionary Money’ by Chester Himes

‘Charles’ by Shirley Jackson

‘Home For Christmas’ by Carson McCullers

‘A Stroke Of Good Fortune’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Majesty Of The Law’ by Frank O’Connor

‘The Man Of The House’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Up The Bare Stairs’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘The Hawk’ by Liam O’Flaherty

‘The Laughing Man’ by J.D. Salinger

‘Porte-Cochere’ by Peter Taylor

‘The Whole World Knows’ by Eudora Welty

1950

‘The Wait’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Veldt’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Baby In The Icebox’ by James M. Cain

‘In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks’ by Hortense Calisher

‘The Season Of Divorce’ by John Cheever

‘Eyes Of A Blue Dog’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Woman Who Came At Six O’Clock’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘One Throw’ by W.C. Heinz

‘Conversation On The Corner’ by Langston Hughes

‘Landladies’ by Langston Hughes

‘Simple On Indian Blood’ by Langston Hughes

‘Simple Prays A Prayer’ by Langston Hughes

‘Vacation’ by Langston Hughes

‘The First Seven Years’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Masculine Principle’ by Frank O’Connor

‘My Oedipus Complex’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Death Of A Favorite’ by J.F. Powers

1951

‘The Switchman’ by Juan José Arreola

‘Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered In His Labyrinth’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘East Side: North Africa’ by Jane Bowles

‘Embroidery’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Fire Balloons’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Last Night Of The World’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Other Foot’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury

‘Bestiary’ by Julio Cortázar

‘Letter To A Young Lady In Paris’ by Julio Cortázar

‘My Last Story’ by Janet Frame

‘The Centerpiece’ by Peter Matthiessen

‘The Tin Butterfly’ by Mary McCarthy

‘A Domestic Dilemma’ by Carson McCullers

‘Legal Aid’ by Frank O’Connor

‘Tell Them Not To Kill Me!’ by Juan Rulfo

‘The Swimming Contest’ by Benjamin Tammuz

‘The Lesson’ by Jessamyn West

‘Love, Death, And The Ladies’ Drill Team’ by Jessamyn West

1952

‘Exodus’ by James Baldwin

‘The Man On The Threshold’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Joker’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Poor Men And Women’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Cap For Steve’ by Morley Callaghan

‘The Night We All Had Grippe’ by Shirley Jackson

‘God Bless America’ by John Oliver Killens

‘The Chicken’ by Clarice Lispector

‘Mystery In São Cristóvão’ by Clarice Lispector

‘Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier

‘The Trojan Women’ by William Maxwell

‘Enoch And The Gorilla’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘A Child’s Christmas In Wales’ by Dylan Thomas

‘No Place For You, My Love’ by Eudora Welty

‘Three Players Of A Summer Game’ by Tennessee Williams

1953

‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe

‘The Rookie’ by Eliot Asinof

‘The South’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘And The Rock Cried Out’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Bride’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Clever One’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Day We Got Our Own Back’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Lie’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Morning After The Big Fire’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The View From The Kitchen’ by Maeve Brennan

‘O Youth And Beauty’ by John Cheever

‘The Sorrows Of Gin’ by John Cheever

‘The Nine Billion Names Of God’ by Arthur C. Clarke

‘The Wish’ by Roald Dahl

‘The Eyes Have It’ by Philip K. Dick

‘The Hanging Stranger’ by Philip K. Dick

‘The Skull’ by Philip K. Dick

‘The Night Of The Curlews’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Empress’s Ring’ by Nancy Hale

‘Brooklyns Lose’ by William Heuman

‘Simple On Military Integration’ by Langston Hughes

‘Who’s Passing For Who?’ by Langston Hughes

‘Three-Ten To Yuma’ by Elmore Leonard

‘The Pilgrimage’ by William Maxwell

‘The Discovery Of Christmas’ by Carson McCullers

‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Luvina’ by Juan Rulfo

‘Talpa’ by Juan Rulfo

‘Gimpel The Fool’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘The Leaf-Sweeper’ by Muriel Spark

‘The Shorn Lamb’ by Jean Stafford

1954

‘The Bound Man’ by Ilse Aichinger

‘Action Will Be Taken’ by Heinrich Boll

‘All Summer In A Day’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Anachronism’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Barrel Of Rumors’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Devil In Us’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Stone, Hot-Water Bottle’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The State Of Grace’ by Harold Brodkey

‘The Five-Forty-Eight’ by John Cheever

‘Going Ashore’ by Mavis Gallant

‘The Bubble’ by Nancy Hale

‘The New Order’ by Nancy Hale

‘A Day In The Country’ by Dan Jacobson

‘The Magic Barrel’ by Bernard Malamud

‘His Excellency’ by Indro Montanelli

‘A Circle In The Fire’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Displaced Person’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford

‘Friends From Philadelphia’ by John Updike

1955

‘Three Is A Lucky Number’ by Margery Allingham

‘A Father-To-Be’ by Saul Bellow

‘The Daughters’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Gentleman In The Pink-And-White Striped Shirt’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Old Man Of The Sea’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Christmas Day In The Morning’ by Pearl S. Buck

‘A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘White Girl, Fine Girl’ by Shirley Ann Grau

‘One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts’ by Shirley Jackson

‘Through The Tunnel’ by Doris Lessing

‘On The Empty Shore’ by Seosamh Mac Grianna

‘Angel Levine’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Mourners’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Artificial N—–‘ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Good Country People’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘A Late Encounter With The Enemy’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The River’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘I Live On Your Visits’ by Dorothy Parker

‘The Green Banana’ by J.F. Powers

‘A Losing Game’ by J.F. Powers

‘My Sister’s Marriage’ by Cynthia Marshall Rich

‘The Contest For Aaron Gold’ by Philip Roth

‘The Eighty-Yard Run’ by Irwin Shaw

‘Where Nothing Is Long Ago’ by Virginia Sorensen

‘Beatrice Trueblood’s Story’ by Jean Stafford

‘Walk In The Moon Shadows’ by Jesse Stuart

‘The Kid Nobody Could Handle’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

‘The Battle Of The Suits’ by Jessamyn West

‘Homecoming’ by Jessamyn West

‘Tom Wolfe’s My Name’ by Jessamyn West

1956

‘The Christmas Turkey’ by Mário de Andrade

‘Jokester’ by Isaac Asimov

‘The Last Question’ by Isaac Asimov

‘The Divine Fireplace’ by Maeve Brennan

‘To The Wilderness I Wander’ by Frank Butler

‘A Christmas Memory’ by Truman Capote

‘Northerners Can Be So Smug’ by Alice Childress

‘The Pocketbook Game’ by Alice Childress

‘Axolotl’ by Julio Cortázar

‘The Continuity Of Parks’ by Julio Cortázar

‘End Of The Game’ by Julio Cortázar

‘The Night Face Up’ by Julio Cortázar

‘The First Flower’ by Augusta Wallace Lyons

‘A Summer’s Reading’ by Bernard Malamud

‘Jewellery’ by Alberto Moravia

‘Greenleaf’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Goodbye And Good Luck’ by Grace Paley

‘Meat’ by Virgilio Piñera

‘The Mountain Day’ by Jean Stafford

‘A Ribbon For Baldy’ by Jesse Stuart

‘Miss Anna’s Asleep’ by Jesse Stuart

‘Snowing In Greenwich Village’ by John Updike

1957

‘Sonny’s Blues’ by James Baldwin

‘A Stick Of Green Candy’ by Jane Bowles

‘The Sound Of Summer Running’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Adulterous Woman’ by Albert Camus

‘Chow!’ by Patricia Collinge

‘Before Crowned Heads’ by Dean Doner

‘Christmas Song’ by Langston Hughes

‘Present For Joyce’ by Langston Hughes

‘Tied In A Bow’ by Langston Hughes

‘Vicious Circle’ by Langston Hughes

‘Thanks For The Ride’ by Alice Munro

‘A View Of The Woods’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Lovers Of The Lake’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘A Couple Of Nights Before Christmas’ by J.F. Powers

‘About Jessie Mae’ by James Purdy

‘The Champ’ by Pedro Juan Soto

‘You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There’ by Elizabeth Taylor

1958

‘A Mother’s Tale’ by James Agee

‘The Worm In The Apple’ by John Cheever

‘Grandma’s Wake’ by Emilio Díaz Valcárcel

‘Indian Burial’ by Dean Doner

‘Thank You Ma’am’ by Langston Hughes

‘Flowers For Algernon’ by Daniel Keyes

‘The Living’ by Mary Lavin

‘Purification On Cristo Street’ by René Marqués

‘Scenes From The Left Of A Double Monster’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Vane Sisters’ by Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Enduring Chill’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Eclipse’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘The Letter Writers’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘Perhaps A Family Failing’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘The Alligators’ by John Updike

‘The Challenge’ by Mario Vargas Llosa

1959

‘The Sacrificial Egg’ by Chinua Achebe

‘Rain, Rain, Go Away’ by Isaac Asimov

‘Sweet Town’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘The Frozen Fields’ by Paul Bowles

‘The Music Teacher’ by John Cheever

‘Secret Weapons’ by Julio Cortázar

‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl

‘End Of The World’ by Dean Doner

‘The Confidence Man’ by George Garrett

‘The Ledge’ by Lawrence Sargent Hall

‘The Buffalo’ by Clarice Lispector

‘La Sainte-Vierge’ by Daphne du Maurier

‘The Contest’ by Grace Paley

‘The Loudest Voice’ by Grace Paley

‘The Pink Pale Roast’ by Grace Paley

‘A Subject Of Childhood’ by Grace Paley

‘Eli, The Fanatic’ by Philip Roth

‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ by Alan Sillitoe

‘On Saturday Afternoon’ by Alan Sillitoe

‘First Dark’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘Venus, Cupid, Folly And Time’ by Peter Taylor

‘Flight’ by John Updike

‘The Happiest I’ve Been’ by John Updike

1960

‘This Morning, This Evening, So Soon’ by James Baldwin

‘The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding’ by Agatha Christie

‘Rose’ by Mavis Gallant

‘When We Were Nearly Young’ by Mavis Gallant

‘The Rain Horse’ by Ted Hughes

‘One Off The Short List’ by Doris Lessing

‘Happy Birthday’ by Clarice Lispector

‘The Smallest Woman In The World’ by Clarice Lispector

‘This Is My Living Room’ by Tom McAfee

‘Three Million Yen’ by Yukio Mishima

‘The Peace Of Utrecht’ by Alice Munro

‘Tell Me A Riddle’ by Tillie Olsen

‘God Writes A Bad Hand’ by J.F. Powers

‘Wrens And Starling’ by J.F. Powers

‘The Fall’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘The Wheelbarrow’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘The Vertical Ladder’ by William Sansom

‘The Ormulu Clock’ by Muriel Spark

‘Moon Rocket’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘A Dedicated Man’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘Wife Wooing’ by John Updike

‘Long Walk To Forever’ by Kurt Vonnegut

1961

‘Murder At Fork Junction’ by Alston Anderson

‘The Spring Hat’ by H.E. Bates

‘The Beginning Of A Long Story’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Father’ by Raymond Carver

‘The Angel Of The Bridge’ by John Cheever

‘Prizes’ by Janet Frame

‘The Old Army Game’ by George Garrett

‘Feet Live Their Own Life’ by Langston Hughes

‘The Island’ by Tove Jansson

‘In The Middle Of The Fields’ by Mary Lavin

‘Idiots First’ by Bernard Malamud

‘An Ounce Of Cure’ by Alice Munro

‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘The Partridge Festival’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Two Turtledoves’ by John O’Hara

‘I Stand Here Ironing’ by Tillie Olsen

‘The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross’ by Henry Slesar

‘In A Different Light’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘A&P’ by John Updike

‘Lifeguard’ by John Updike

‘Pigeon Feathers’ by John Updike

‘Harrison Bergeron’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

‘Welcome To The Monkey House’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

‘Who Am I This Time?’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1962

‘Everything’ by Ingeborg Bachmann

‘Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve’ by Juan Bosch

‘An Attack Of Hunger’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Young Girl Can Spoil Her Chances’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Matter Of Time’ by Frank London Brown

‘The Keyhole Eye’ by John Stewart Carter

‘Reunion’ by John Cheever

‘The Manhunt’ by Daniel Curley

‘Peace On High’ by Rómulo Gallegos

‘One Of These Days’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Pet’ by Nadine Gordimer

‘Weekend’ by Shirley Hazzard

‘The Terrapin’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Office’ by Alice Munro

‘Irish Revel’ by Edna O’Brien

‘A Short Walk From The Station’ by John O’Hara

‘Gloomy Tune’ by Grace Paley

‘XII’ by Nathalie Sarraute

‘The Blessed Man Of Boston, My Grandmother’s Thimble, And Fanning Island’ by John Updike

‘Unstuck’ by John Updike

‘2 B R 0 2 B’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

‘Son In The Afternoon’ by John A. Williams

1963

‘The Drowned Man’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Blow-Up’ by Julio Cortázar

‘A Long Day’s Dying’ by William Eastlake

‘Everybody Knows Tobie’ by Daniel Garza

‘The Mother’ by Natalia Ginzburg

‘Mortmain’ by Graham Greene

‘The Loons’ by Margaret Laurence

‘The Mask Of The Bear’ by Margaret Laurence

‘The Sound Of The Singing’ by Margaret Laurence

‘To Set Our House In Order’ by Margaret Laurence

‘England Versus England’ by Doris Lessing

‘How I Finally Lost My Heart’ by Doris Lessing

‘To Room Nineteen’ by Doris Lessing

‘A Woman On The Roof’ by Doris Lessing

‘The Jewbird’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Rug’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Why Do The Heathens Rage?’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Agatha’ by John O’Hara

‘The Face’ by Virginia Sorensen

‘Two Pilgrims’ by Peter Taylor

‘Giving Blood’ by John Updike

‘Where Is The Voice Coming From?’ by Eudora Welty

1964

‘Me And Miss Mandible’ by Donald Barthelme

‘What’s Your Problem?’ by Robert Boles

‘The Carpet With The Big Pink Roses On It’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Free Choice’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Student’s Wife’ by Raymond Carver

‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever

‘Giving’ by Dean Doner

‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ by Margaret Drabble

‘The Doll Queen’ by Carlos Fuentes

‘Cheap In August’ by Graham Greene

‘Trek’ by Barry Hannah

‘One Arm’ by Yasunari Kawabata

‘A Visit To Grandmother’ by William Melvin Kelley

‘A Bird In The House’ by Margaret Laurence

‘The Fifth Story’ by Clarice Lispector

‘The Obedient Ones’ by Clarice Lispector

‘A Sincere Friendship’ by Clarice Lispector

‘Temptation’ by Clarice Lispector

‘The Deal’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Red Dress – 1946’ by Alice Munro

‘Revelation’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Christmas Poem’ by John O’Hara

‘Flight’ by John O’Hara

‘In The Zoo’ by Jean Stafford

‘A Meeting In Middle Age’ by William Trevor

‘The Music School’ by John Updike

‘Twin Beds In Rome’ by John Updike

1965

‘The Voter’ by Chinua Achebe

‘Little Whale, Varnisher Of Reality’ by Vasily Aksenov

‘Going To Meet The Man’ by James Baldwin

‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Shadow Of Kindness’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Poetics For Bullies’ by Stanley Elkin

‘Sunday Lunch’ by Nancy Hale

‘The Possibility Of Evil’ by Shirley Jackson

‘The Poor Orphan Girl’ by William Maxwell

‘A Horse And Two Goats’ by R.K. Narayan

‘At The Seminary’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Comforts Of Home’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Parker’s Back’ by Flannery O’Connor

‘Key To The City’ by Diane Oliver

‘Living’ by Grace Paley

‘The Family Meadow’ by John Updike

‘The Rescue’ by John Updike

1966

‘The Balloon’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Twelfth Wedding Anniversary’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati

‘The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen’ by Graham Greene

‘In The Region Of Ice’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Upon The Sweeping Flood’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Two Of A Kind’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘Neighbors’ by Diane Oliver

‘The House Of The Famous Poet’ by Muriel Spark

1967

‘Playin With Punjab’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘Talkin Bout Sonny’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘The Star’ by Arthur C. Clarke

‘A Voyage To Cythera’ by Margaret Drabble

‘The Sunday After Christmas’ by Mavis Gallant

‘Two Gentle People’ by Graham Greene

‘The Third Bank Of The River’ by João Guimarães Rosa

‘The Quest For “Blank Claveringi”’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Stick Up’ by John Oliver Killens

‘The Half-Husky’ by Margaret Laurence

‘Horses Of The Night’ by Margaret Laurence

‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien

‘How Old, How Young’ by John O’Hara

‘Debt Of Honor’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘The Lotus’ by Jean Rhys

‘To Hell With Dying’ by Alice Walker

‘Good Man, Bad Man’ by Jerome Weidman

1968

‘Summer Voices’ by John Banville

‘The Indian Uprising’ by Donald Barthelme

‘Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Eldest Child’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Sofa’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Stories Of Africa’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘The Last Voyage Of The Ghost Ship’ by Gabriel García Márquez

‘In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country’ by William Gass

‘The Life Of The Imagination’ by Nadine Gordimer

‘Nikishka’s Secrets’ by Yury Kazakov

‘Here There Be Tygers’ by Stephen King

‘Strawberry Spring’ by Stephen King

‘Happiness’ by Mary Lavin

‘My Son The Murderer’ by Bernard Malamud

‘On Trains’ by James Alan McPherson

‘A Solo Song: For Doc’ by James Alan McPherson

‘Manikin’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Boys And Girls’ by Alice Munro

‘Dance Of The Happy Shades’ by Alice Munro

‘Images’ by Alice Munro

‘Postcard’ by Alice Munro

‘The Shining Houses’ by Alice Munro

‘Walker Brothers Cowboy’ by Alice Munro

‘Cords’ by Edna O’Brien

‘The Mouth Of The Cave’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Paradise’ by Edna O’Brien

‘A Dead Cert’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘Cafeteria’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘The Dead Fiddler’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘First Heat’ by Peter Taylor

1969

‘Happy Birthday’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘The Babysitter’ by Robert Coover

‘Quenby And Ola, Swede And Carl’ by Robert Coover

‘Crossing The Alps’ by Margaret Drabble

‘You Are Now Entering The Human Heart’ by Janet Frame

‘Goodbye, Pops’ by Joe Gores

‘The Hitchhiking Game’ by Milan Kundera

‘City Boy’ by Leonard Michaels

‘The Canebrake’ by Mohammed Mrabet

‘How I Contemplated The World From The Detroit House Of Correction And Began My Life Over Again’ by Joyce Carol Oates

1970

‘The Gospel According To Mark’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Lookout’ by Cyrus Colter

‘The Gifts Of War’ by Margaret Drabble

‘Death Constant Beyond Love’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘One Night In New Jersey’ by Chester Himes

‘Jericho’s Brick Battlements’ by Margaret Laurence

‘Hearts Of Oak And Bellies Of Brass’ by John McGahern

‘Where I Lived, And What I Lived For’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Diver’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘Her Son’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘The Carol Sing’ by John Updike

‘The Orphaned Swimming Pool’ by John Updike

1971

‘Civil Peace’ by Chinua Achebe

‘Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘Gorilla, My Love’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘Talk To The Music’ by Arna Bontemps

‘Cowardice’ by Abdeslam Boulaich

‘Revenge Of The Lawn’ by Richard Brautigan

‘Cooking Lesson’ by Rosario Castellanos

‘Game Plan’ by Don DeLillo

‘A Day In The Life Of A Smiling Woman’ by Margaret Drabble

‘White Rat’ by Gayl Jones

‘The First Kiss’ by Clarice Lispector

‘Don’t Look Now’ by Daphne du Maurier

‘The Flats Road’ by Alice Munro

‘The Metamorphosis’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Turn Of The Screw’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Debts’ by Grace Paley

‘Wants’ by Grace Paley

‘The Moon In Its Flight’ by Gilbert Sorrentino

‘Plumbing’ by John Updike

‘The Old Halvorson Place’ by Larry Woiwode

1972

‘Sugar Baby’ by Chinua Achebe

‘Steady Going Up’ by Maya Angelou

‘The Johnson Girls’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘The Lesson’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘Maggie Of The Green Bottles’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘My Man Bovanne’ by Toni Cade Bambara

‘City Of Churches’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Rise Of Capitalism’ by Donald Barthelme

‘Christmas Eve’ by Maeve Brennan

‘The Springs Of Affection’ by Maeve Brennan

‘Are These Actual Miles?’ by Raymond Carver

‘Jerry And Molly And Sam’ by Raymond Carver

‘(I Thought My Father Looked Like FDR)’ by George Chambers

‘Animal Behavior’ by Laurie Colwin

‘A Success Story’ by Margaret Drabble

‘Mrs. Fortescue’ by Doris Lessing

‘A Loaf Of Bread’ by James Alan McPherson

‘The Silver Bullet’ by James Alan McPherson

‘Naga’ by R.K. Narayan

‘The Dead’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Lady With The Pet Dog’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Soldiers’ by Ellease Southerland

‘The Devastating Boys’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘In And Out Of Houses’ by Elizabeth Taylor

‘Penelope’ by Dalton Trevisan

‘Commercial’ by John Updike

‘Minutes Of The Last Meeting’ by John Updike

‘When Everyone Was Pregnant’ by John Updike

‘Can-Can’ by Arturo Vivante

‘Train’ by Joy Williams

1973

‘Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme

‘Family Walls’ by Maeve Brennan

‘A Story In Almost Classical Mode’ by Harold Brodkey

‘The World Of Apples’ by John Cheever

‘Mr. Parker’ by Laurie Colwin

‘The Boogeyman’ by Stephen King

‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ by Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party’ by Bernard Malamud

‘The Faithful’ by James Alan McPherson

‘The Story Of A Scar’ by James Alan McPherson

‘Do With Me What You Will’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Creature’ by Edna O’Brien

‘A Conversation With My Father’ by Grace Paley

‘The Marvellous Girl’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘The Rescue’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘The Diary Of An African Nun’ by Alice Walker

‘Everyday Use’ by Alice Walker

1974

‘I Bought A Little City’ by Donald Barthelme

‘It’s Just Another Day In Big Bear, California’ by Ann Beattie

‘American Dreams’ by Peter Carey

‘Flesh And The Mirror’ by Angela Carter

‘Irina’ by Mavis Gallant

‘The Day Before The Revolution’ by Ursula K. Le Guin

‘I Am An American’ by James Alan McPherson

‘Why I Like Country Music’ by James Alan McPherson

‘How I Met My Husband’ by Alice Munro

‘Small Avalanches’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Durling, Or The Faithless Wife’ by Sean O’Faolain

‘The Camberwell Beauty’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘Evening On The Côte D’Azur – 1952’ by Richard Yates

1975

‘Roses, Rhododendron’ by Alice Adams

‘Rape Fantasies’ by Margaret Atwood

‘The Neighbor’ by Russell Banks

‘Rebecca’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Book Of Sand’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘City Lovers’ by Nadine Gordimer

‘Tapioca Surprise’ by William Goyen

‘Midnight And I’m Not Famous Yet’ by Barry Hannah

‘Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed’ by Barry Hannah

‘The Breeder’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Coquette’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Dancer’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Female Novelist’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Fully Licensed Whore, Or, The Wife’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Hand’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Invalid, Or The Bedridden’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘The Middle-Class Housewife’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘Bluebell Meadow’ by Benedict Kiely

‘The Lawnmower Man’ by Stephen King

‘First Love, Last Rites’ by Ian McEwan

‘Storytellers, Liars, And Bores’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Sliding’ by Leslie Norris

‘A Choice Of Butchers’ by William Trevor

‘A Complicated Nature’ by William Trevor

‘The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals’ by John Updike

‘Problems’ by John Updike

‘Separating’ by John Updike

‘Who, Me A Bum?’ by Luisa Valenzuela

1976

‘Are You In Love?’ by Alice Adams

‘Flights’ by Alice Adams

‘Heart Attack’ by Max Apple

‘The Great Hug’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The School’ by Donald Barthelme

‘Weekend’ by Ann Beattie

‘The Last Pilgrim’ by Laurie Colwin

‘The World In A Bowl Of Soup: A Christmas Story’ by Annie Dillard

‘Letters From The Samantha‘ by Mark Helprin

‘The Balcony’ by Filisberto Hernández

‘The Ledge’ by Stephen King

‘The Artichoke’ by Marilyn Krysl

‘The Thistles In Sweden’ by William Maxwell

‘The Poteen Maker’ by Michael McLaverty

‘The Road To The Shore’ by Michael McLaverty

‘A Big Night’ by Leslie Norris

‘In The Hours Of Darkness’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Number Ten’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Legend For A Painting’ by Julia O’Faolain

‘Domestic Life In America’ by John Updike

‘Here Come The Maples’ by John Updike

‘Love Song, For A Moog Synthesizer’ by John Updike

1977

‘Beautiful Girl’ by Alice Adams

‘Le Miroir’ by Robert Aickman

‘Hair Jewellery’ by Margaret Atwood

‘The Man From Mars’ by Margaret Atwood

‘Cortés And Montezuma’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The King Of Jazz’ by Donald Barthelme

‘The Swan’ by Roald Dahl

‘Xmas’ by Thomas M. Disch

‘Backwacking, A Plea To The Senator’ by Ralph Ellison

‘Coming Close To Donna’ by Barry Hannah

‘The Schreuderspitze’ by Mark Helprin

‘The Golden Pony’ by Glyn Jones

‘The Slip-Up’ by John McGahern

‘The Wine Breath’ by John McGahern

‘A Sense Of Story’ by James Alan McPherson

‘The Story Of A Dead Man’ by James Alan McPherson

‘The Flight Of Geese’ by Leslie Norris

‘In The West Country’ by Leslie Norris

‘This Is A Story About My Friend George, The Toy Inventor’ by Grace Paley

‘Trilobites’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘A Family Man’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘Pretty Ice’ by Mary Robison

‘Sisters’ by Mary Robison

‘The Egg Race’ by John Updike

1978

‘The Last Married Man’ by Alice Adams

‘The Caul’ by Russell Banks

‘Concerning The Bodyguard’ by Donald Barthelme

‘A Silver Dish’ by Saul Bellow

‘Popular Mechanics’ by Raymond Carver

‘Why Don’t You Dance?’ by Raymond Carver

‘In The Name Of Bobby’ by Julio Cortázar

‘Delivering’ by Andre Dubus

‘Dragged Fighting From His Tomb’ by Barry Hannah

‘Testimony Of Pilot’ by Barry Hannah

‘Water Liars’ by Barry Hannah

‘A Leading Role’ by Tove Jansson

‘Girl’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘In The Night’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘Quitters, Inc.’ by Stephen King

‘Pornography’ by Ian McEwan

‘Psychopolis’ by Ian McEwan

‘Sierra Leone’ by John McGahern

‘The Moons Of Jupiter’ by Alice Munro

‘Roman Spring’ by Leslie Norris

‘Mrs. Reinhardt’ by Edna O’Brien

‘A Rose In The Heart Of New York’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Somewhere Else’ by Grace Paley

‘In The Dry’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘The Fly In The Ointment’ by V.S. Pritchett

‘May Queen’ by Mary Robison

‘Another Christmas’ by William Trevor

‘Attracta’ by William Trevor

‘Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog’ by Stephanie Vaughn

1979

‘Greenwich Time’ by Ann Beattie

‘Wolf-Alice’ by Angela Carter

‘At Last’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘Wingless’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘The Doll’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Violets’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Love’ by Grace Paley

‘Blind Girls’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

‘Happy’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

‘Home’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

‘Lechery’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

‘Under The Boardwalk’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

‘What It Takes To Keep A Young Girl Alive’ by Jayne Anne Phillips

1980

‘The Hit Man’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Sauerkraut Soup’ by Stuart Dybek

‘A Vermont Tale’ by Mark Helprin

‘Offerings’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Shiloh’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘The Turkey Season’ by Alice Munro

‘The Tryst’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Warmth Of Things’ by Nélida Piñón

‘Gesturing’ by John Updike

1981

‘Greyhound People’ by Alice Adams

‘Let Me Count The Times’ by Martin Amis

‘The Child Screams And Looks Back At You’ by Russell Banks

‘Cold And Sunny’ by Maeve Brennan

‘After The Denim’ by Raymond Carver

‘The Bath’ by Raymond Carver

‘Beginners’ by Raymond Carver

‘Chef’s House’ by Raymond Carver

‘Everything Stuck To Him’ by Raymond Carver

‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’ by Raymond Carver

‘Alvin The Typesetter’ by Lydia Davis

‘A Strange And Sometimes Sadness’ by Kazuo Ishiguro

‘A Dark Night’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Letter From Home’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘The Anatomy Of Desire’ by John L’Heureux

‘Detroit Skyline 1949’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Nancy Culpepper’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Prue’ by Alice Munro

‘Dabchick’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Kangaroo Communiqué’ by Haruki Murakami

‘New York Mining Disaster’ by Haruki Murakami

On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning’ by Haruki Murakami

‘A Perfect Day For Kangaroos’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Year Of Spaghetti’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Connor Girls’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Sister Imelda’ by Edna O’Brien

‘The Shawl’ by Cynthia Ozick

‘The Honored Dead’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘The Absence Of Emily’ by Jack Ritchie

‘Coach’ by Mary Robison

‘The Help’ by Mary Robison

‘Smart’ by Mary Robison

‘The Gift Of The Prodigal’ by Peter Taylor

‘Learn A Trade’ by John Updike

‘The Lovely Troubled Daughters Of Our Old Crowd’ by John Updike

‘Pygmalion’ by John Updike

‘Other Women’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘Camping Out’ by James Wilcox

‘Making Friends’ by Joy Williams

‘In The Garden Of North American Martyrs’ by Tobias Wolff

‘Next Door’ by Tobias Wolff

‘Liars In Love’ by Richard Yates

1982

‘Where The Mountains Are’ by Bill Barich

‘Jacklighting’ by Ann Beattie

‘One Christmas’ by Truman Capote

‘Cathedral’ by Raymond Carver

‘Feathers’ by Raymond Carver

‘Where I’m Calling From’ by Raymond Carver

‘A Figure Of Speech’ by Tess Gallagher

‘A Family Supper’ by Kazuo Ishiguro

‘The First Day’ by Edward P. Jones

‘Drawing Names’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Residents And Transients’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘The Rookers’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Bardon Bus’ by Alice Munro

‘Kiswana Browne’ by Gloria Naylor

‘Levitation’ by Cynthia Ozick

‘Hollow’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘Strays’ by Mark Richard

‘Yours’ by Mary Robison

‘Reunion’ by Julie Schumacher

‘Christmas For Sassafrass, Cypress And Indigo’ by Ntozake Shange

‘Polaroid’ by Sally Wells

1983

‘Alaska’ by Alice Adams

‘Simmering’ by Margaret Atwood

‘All The Way In Flagstaff, Arizona’ by Richard Bausch

‘Chablis’ by Donald Barthelme

‘Coney Island’ by Ann Beattie

‘Heaven On A Summer Night’ by Ann Beattie

‘High School’ by Ann Beattie

‘Lofty’ by Ann Beattie

‘Times’ by Ann Beattie

‘The Naked Lady’ by Madison Smartt Bell

‘Song On Royal Street’ by Richard Blessing

‘August 25, 1983’ by Jorge Luis Borges

‘In The Red Room’ by Paul Bowles

‘Ceil’ by Harold Brodkey

‘Memorial Day’ by Peter Cameron

‘Fever’ by Raymond Carver

‘Preservation’ by Raymond Carver

‘A Small, Good Thing’ by Raymond Carver

‘The Train’ by Raymond Carver

‘Vitamins’ by Raymond Carver

‘In Bed One Night’ by Robert Coover

‘Break It Down’ by Lydia Davis

‘The Texas Principessa’ by William Goyen

‘In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried’ by Amy Hempel

‘Why I Became A Nightingale’ by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

‘The Circling Hand’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘Figures In The Distance’ by Jamaica Kincaid

‘Territory’ by David Leavitt

‘The Stump-Grubber’ by Torgny Lindgren

‘Love’ by William Maxwell

‘Barn Burning’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Mirror’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Nairobi’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The First Day Of Winter’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘A Room Forever’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘Time And Again’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘The Way It Has To Be’ by Breece D’J Pancake

‘I Am Twenty-One’ by Mary Robison

‘The Wellman Twins’ by Mary Robison

‘On The Golden Porch’ by Tatyana Tolstaya

‘Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desire’ by Michael Tournier

‘Panther Eyes’ by Luisa Valenzuela

‘By The Way Of Morning Fire’ by Michael Weaver

1984

‘Bridging’ by Max Apple

‘Business Talk’ by Max Apple

‘Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story’ by Russell Banks

‘The Cliff’ by Charles Baxter

‘In The White Night’ by Ann Beattie

‘My Jockey’ by Lucia Berlin

‘Villa Marta’ by Clare Boylan

‘The Hector Quesadilla Story’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Pitch Memory’ by Ethan Canin

‘A Country Wedding’ by Laurie Colwin

‘Midair’ by Frank Conroy

‘The Hunter’ by E.L. Doctorow

‘Bottle Caps’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Hot Ice’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Pet Milk’ by Stuart Dybek

‘The Case Of Four And Twenty Blackbirds’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Victory Over Japan’ by Ellen Gilchrist

‘Mother’ by Andrea Lee

‘My Father’s Friends’ by William Maxwell

‘With Reference To An Incident At A Bridge’ by William Maxwell

‘Crabs’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Nausea 1979’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Happy’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘In The Woods’ by Mary Robison

‘Kid MacArthur’ by Stephanie Vaughn

1985

‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’ by Beryl Bainbridge

‘What Feels Like The World’ by Richard Bausch

‘Gryphon’ by Charles Baxter

‘Through The Safety Net’ by Charles Baxter

‘Janus’ by Ann Beattie

‘Thicker Than Liquor’ by Wendell Berry

‘Greasy Lake’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Reading The Paper’ by Ron Carlson

‘The Kitchen Baby’ by Angela Carter

‘The Sock’ by Lydia Davis

‘Second-Hand Man’ by Rita Dove

‘Blight’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Communist’ by Richard Ford

‘Even Greenland’ by Barry Hannah

‘Celia Is Back’ by Amy Hempel

‘In A Tub’ by Amy Hempel

‘Pool Night’ by Amy Hempel

‘San Francisco’ by Amy Hempel

‘Three Popes Walk Into A Bar’ by Amy Hempel

‘Today Will Be A Quiet Day’ by Amy Hempel

‘Tonight Is A Favor To Holly’ by Amy Hempel

‘When It’s Human Instead Of When It’s Dog’ by Amy Hempel

‘Billy’s Girl’ by Gordon Jackson

‘The Rosary’ by Robert Kelly

‘How To Become A Writer’ by Lorrie Moore

‘The Elephant Vanishes’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Second Bakery Attack’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Mother’ by Grace Paley

‘Ruthy And Edie’ by Grace Paley

‘No One’s A Mystery’ by Elizabeth Tallent

‘The Nevada School Of Acting’ by Judy Troy

‘I’m Your Horse In The Night’ by Luisa Valenzuela

‘The Rich Brother’ by Tobias Wolff

‘Say Yes’ by Tobias Wolff

‘In A House Of Wooden Monkeys’ by Shay Youngblood

1986

‘The Gully’ by Russell Banks

‘My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, And Other True Stories’ by Russell Banks

‘Snow’ by Ann Beattie

‘Teller’s Ticket’ by Robert Flanagan

‘The Parker Shotgun’ by Sue Grafton

‘A Real Doll’ by A.M. Homes

‘The Slaves In New York’ by Tama Janowitz

‘The Wind-Up Bird And Tuesday’s Women’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien

‘I Get By’ by Mary Robison

‘Disguised’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘Rules Of The Game’ by Amy Tan

‘Leaf Season’ by John Updike

1987

‘Ocracoke Island’ by Alice Adams

‘The Man Who Knew Belle Starr’ by Richard Bausch

‘Horatio’s Trick’ by Ann Beattie

‘The H Street Sledding Record’ by Ron Carlson

‘Admirals’ by Michael Chabon

‘Rock Springs’ by Richard Ford

‘Nebraska’ by Ron Hansen

‘Rapture Of The Deep’ by Amy Hempel

‘The Ship Ahoy’ by Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Bumblebees’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘The Lifeguard’ by Mary Morris

‘From 100 Elvis Stories’ by Lisa Walker

1988

‘River Of Names’ by Dorothy Allison

‘Sex Appeal’ by Lucia Berlin

‘Teenage Punk’ by Lucia Berlin

‘The Writer’s Trade’ by Nicholas Delbanco

‘An Affair, Edited’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Connection’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Daisy’s Valentine’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Heaven’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Other Factors’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Romantic Weekend’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Secretary’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Something Nice’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Trying To Be’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘We’ by Mary Grimm

‘Two Men’ by Denis Johnson

‘Work’ by Denis Johnson

‘Wish’ by Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Crusader Rabbit’ by Jess Mowry

‘The Management Of Grief’ by Bharati Mukherjee

‘Meneseteung’ by Alice Munro

‘In The Shadow Of War’ by Ben Okri

‘Strays’ by Mark Richard

‘American Express’ by James Salter

‘Twenty Minutes’ by James Salter

‘Home For Christmas’ by Jeffrey Shaffer

‘Herself In Love’ by Marianne Wiggins

‘They Tell Me… Now I Know’ by Shay Youngblood

1989

‘Death By Landscape’ by Margaret Atwood

‘Zapatos’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘The Lying Bee’ by John Henrik Clarke

‘Monroe’s Wedding’ by John Holman

‘Car Crash While Hitchhiking’ by Denis Johnson

‘Dundun’ by Denis Johnson

‘Emergency’ by Denis Johnson

‘Eisenheim The Illusionist’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Sleep’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Widow’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Long Distances’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes

‘The Reverse Bug’ by Lore Segal

‘The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan

‘Dog Heaven’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘The Baby-Sitter’ by Jane Yolen

‘Spit In The Governor’s Tea’ by Shay Youngblood

1990

‘Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story’ by Paul Auster

‘Consolation’ by Richard Bausch

‘The Fireman’s Wife’ by Richard Bausch

‘Wedlock’ by Richard Bausch

‘Love Is Not A Pie’ by Amy Bloom

‘Smoke’ by Michael Chabon

‘The Point’ by Charles D’Ambrosio

‘Chopin In Winter’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Death Of A Right Fielder’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Farwell’ by Stuart Dybek

‘The Leap’ by Louise Erdrich

‘And Lead Us Not Into Penn Station’ by Amy Hempel

‘At The Animal Shelter’ by Amy Hempel

‘Daylight Come’ by Amy Hempel

‘The Harvest’ by Amy Hempel

‘The Most Girl Part Of You’ by Amy Hempel

‘Murder’ by Amy Hempel

‘To Those Of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights From O’Hare’ by Amy Hempel

‘Tom-Rock Through The Eels’ by Amy Hempel

‘Caveat Emptor’ by Joan Hess

‘Death Of A Romance Writer’ by Joan Hess

‘A Little More Research’ by Joan Hess

‘Too Much To Bare’ by Joan Hess

‘The Other Man’ by Denis Johnson

‘The Wife’ by Jennifer Jordan

‘Silences’ by Helen Elaine Lee

‘Behind The Blue Curtain’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Willing’ by Lorrie Moore

‘You’re Ugly, Too’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Tony Takitani’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Heat’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Brother’ by Edna O’Brien

‘His Final Mother’ by Reynolds Price

‘The Birds For Christmas’ by Mark Richard

‘Jesse’ by Rosemarie Robotham

‘A Sandstone Farmhouse’ by John Updike

‘The Battle Of Fallen Timbers’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘Snow Angel’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘Sweet Talk’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘We’re On TV In The Universe’ by Stephanie Vaughn

‘Sanity’ by Tobias Wolff

1991

‘The Last Lovely City’ by Alice Adams

‘The Working Girl’ by Ann Beattie

‘A Different Kind Of Imperfection’ by Thomas Beller

‘Are You All Right?’ by Wendell Berry

‘The Discovery Of Kentucky’ by Wendell Berry

‘Island’ by Gretel Ehrlich

‘(She Owns) Every Thing’ by Anne Enright

‘Community Life’ by Lorrie Moore

‘The Little Green Monster’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Ice Man’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Swimmers’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Iona Moon’ by Melanie Rae Thon

‘The Other Side Of The Street’ by John Updike

1992

‘Read This And Tell Me What It Says’ by A. Manette Ansay

‘A Jonquil For Mary Penn’ by Wendell Berry

‘The Lost Bet’ by Wendell Berry

‘Making It Home’ by Wendell Berry

‘Mrs. Box’ by Michael Chabon

‘Accident At The Sugarbeet’ by Tom Drury

‘Changes In Louise’ by Tom Drury

‘Tiny In The Wilderness’ by Tom Drury

‘The Secret Of Cartwheels’ by Patricia Henley

‘In My Next Life’ by Pam Houston

‘Beverly Home’ by Denis Johnson

‘Happy Hour’ by Denis Johnson

‘Out On Bail’ by Denis Johnson

‘Steady Hands In Seattle General’ by Denis Johnson

‘A Butterfly On F Street’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Girl Who Raised Pigeons’ by Edward P. Jones

‘His Mother’s House’ by Edward P. Jones

‘Lost In The City’ by Edward P. Jones

‘A New Man’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed’ by Edward P. Jones

‘An Orange Line Train To Ballston’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Store’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Sunday Following Mother’s Day’ by Edward P. Jones

‘Young Lions’ by Edward P. Jones

‘The Black Lights’ by Thom Jones

‘The Kind Of Light That Shines On Texas’ by Reginald McKnight

‘Charades’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Naked Ladies’ by Antonya Nelson

‘August Evening’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Brown Chest’ by John Updike

‘Playing With Dynamite’ by John Updike

‘Powder’ by Tobias Wolff

1993

‘Amusements’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jim Hendrix Play The Star-Spangled Banner At Woodstock’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Every Little Hurricane’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Family Portrait’ by Sherman Alexie

‘The Fun House’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Indian Education’ by Sherman Alexie

‘The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven’ by Sherman Alexie

‘The Only Traffic Signal On The Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore’ by Sherman Alexie

‘This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Sybil’ by A. Manette Ansay

‘There Was Once’ by Margaret Atwood

‘G-String’ by Nicola Barker

‘A Half-Pint Of Old Darling’ by Wendell Berry

‘Top Of The Food Chain’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Children Of The Sea’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘Night Women’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘We Didn’t’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Across The Lake’ by Deborah Eisenberg

‘A Real Durwan’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Dance In America’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Vandals’ by Alice Munro

‘The Threshold’ by Cristina Peri Rossi

‘A Day’ by William Trevor

1994

‘Aren’t You Happy For Me?’ by Richard Bausch

‘A Consent’ by Wendell Berry

‘Turn Back The Bed’ by Wendell Berry

‘How To Travel With A Salmon’ by Umberto Eco

‘Falalalalalalalala’ by Nikki Giovanni

‘Good Intentions’ by Etgar Keret

‘Leg’ by Stephen Polansky

1995

‘Complicities’ by Alice Adams

‘Billboard’ by Richard Bausch

‘Fatality’ by Richard Bausch

‘How To Date A Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, Or Halfie)’ by Junot Díaz

‘Ysrael’ by Junot Díaz

‘Paper Lantern’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Cinnamon’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Intertextuality’ by Mary Gordon

‘Beautiful Grade’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Ghost Girls’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Mark Of Satan’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Sticks’ by George Saunders

‘After Rain’ by William Trevor

‘Bullet In The Brain’ by Tobias Wolff

‘Helix’ by Banana Yoshimoto

1996

‘Nobody In Hollywood’ by Richard Bausch

‘The Drill’ by Breena Clarke

‘New York Day Women’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘Aguantando’ by Junot Díaz

‘Aurora’ by Junot Díaz

‘Boyfriend’ by Junot Díaz

‘Drown’ by Junot Díaz

‘Edison, New Jersey’ by Junot Díaz

‘Fiesta, 1980’ by Junot Díaz

‘Negocios’ by Junot Díaz

‘No Face’ by Junot Díaz

‘Baster’ by Jeffrey Eugenides

‘Privacy’ by Richard Ford

‘The Hammam’ by Hervé Guibert

‘Uncle High Lonesome’ by Barry Hannah

‘What A Thought’ by Shirley Jackson

‘Nadine At Forty’ by Hilary Mantel

‘Agnes Of Iowa’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Life After High School’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Temple’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Lighthouse’ by Agnes Owens

‘Christmas Freud’ by David Rakoff

‘Counting Breaths’ by Rosemarie Robotham

‘The Falls’ by George Saunders

‘New York Girl’ by John Updike

‘The Night In Question’ by Tobias Wolff

1997

‘Elk’ by Rick Bass

‘Clara’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Henri Simon Leprince’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Phone Calls’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Sansini’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘The House Behind’ by Lydia Davis

‘Odd Behavior’ by Lydia Davis

‘Blowing Shades’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Lunch At The Loyola Arms’ by Stuart Dybek

‘The Price’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Because They Wanted To’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘The Blanket’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Comfort’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘The Girl On The Plane’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Tiny Smiling Daddy’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Turgor’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘The Annex’ by Amy Hempel

‘The Children’s Party’ by Amy Hempel

‘Housewife’ by Amy Hempel

‘Weekend’ by Amy Hempel

‘Mouses’ by Thom Jones

‘Everything In This Country Must’ by Colum McCann

‘A Visit’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Brokeback Mountain’ by Annie Proulx

‘The Half-Skinned Steer’ by Annie Proulx

‘Winky’ by George Saunders

‘Mortals’ by Tobias Wolff

1998

‘Quiet Please’ by Aimee Bender

‘Son Of The Wolfman’ by Michael Chabon

‘The Boys’ by Ethan Coen

‘The Sun, The Moon, The Stars’ by Junot Díaz

‘Naked Woman Playing Chopin’ by Louise Erdrich

‘Creche’ by Richard Ford

‘A Dream Of Men’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Over There’ by Julie Hecht

‘The New Lodger’ by Amy Hempel

‘Birdland’ by Michael Knight

‘Interpreter Of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Sexy’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘A Temporary Matter’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘When Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Nachman’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Nachman Burning’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Real Estate’ by Lorrie Moore

‘The Mud Below’ by Annie Proulx

‘What I Hear’ by Mary Robison

‘The End Of FIRPO In The World’ by George Saunders

‘Sea Oak’ by George Saunders

‘Of The Cloth’ by William Trevor

‘O’Brien’s First Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson

1999

‘The Toughest Indian In The World’ by Sherman Alexie

‘An Actor Prepares’ by Donald Antrim

‘Nilda’ by Junot Díaz

‘Alaska’ by Tom Franklin

‘The Local Production Of Cinderella’ by Allegra Goodman

‘Raft In Water, Floating’ by A.M. Homes

‘The Best Girlfriend You Never Had’ by Pam Houston

‘1408’ by Stephen King

‘Mrs. Sen’s’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘The Third And Final Continent’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘This Blessed House’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘The Treatment Of Bibi Haldar’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Nachman At The Races’ by Leonard Michaels

‘The Penultimate Conjecture’ by Leonard Michaels

‘The Bear Came Over The Mountain’ by Alice Munro

‘Man-Eating Cats’ by Haruki Murakami

‘U.F.O. In Kushiro’ by Haruki Murakami

‘Stitches’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Brownies’ by ZZ Packer

‘Job History’ by Annie Proulx

‘The Barber’s Unhappiness’ by George Saunders

2000

‘The Glass House’ by Chris Adrian

‘Lobster Night’ by Russell Banks

‘Water Child’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘Calling’ by Richard Ford

‘Quality Time’ by Richard Ford

‘Reunion’ by Richard Ford

‘Under The Radar’ by Richard Ford

‘The Paperhanger’ by William Gay

‘Brothers And Sisters Around The World’ by Andrea Lee

‘Spirituality; With Or Without A Prayer’ by Elmore Leonard

‘The Mappist’ by Barry Lopez

‘First Love’ by Ben Marcus

‘Ranch Girl’ by Maile Meloy

‘Tome’ by Maile Meloy

‘Boys’ by Rick Moody

‘Drinking Coffee Elsewhere’ by ZZ Packer

‘Family Christmas’ by Roxana Robinson

‘Exhortation’ by George Saunders

‘Pastoralia’ by George Saunders

‘Three People’ by William Trevor

2001

‘1-900’ by Richard Bausch

‘Days Of 1978’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Gómez Palacio’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Last Evenings On Earth’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Mauricio (‘The Eye’) Silva’ by Roberto Bolaño

‘Along The Frontage Road’ by Michael Chabon

‘Seven’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘Like It Or Not’ by Deborah Eisenberg

‘Puppy’ by Richard Ford

‘A Village After Dark’ by Kazuo Ishiguro

‘Breaking The Pig’ by Etgar Keret

‘Billy Goats’ by Jill McCorkle

‘Aqua Boulevard’ by Maile Meloy

‘Nachman From Los Angeles’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Family Furnishings’ by Alice Munro

‘The Piano Teacher’s Pupil’ by William Trevor

‘Aftermath’ by Mary Yukari Waters

2002

‘Drummond & Son’ by Charles D’Ambrosio

‘The Ends’ by Peter Ho Davies

‘Grammar Questions’ by Lydia Davis

‘Uncle Raymond’ by Nelson Eubanks

‘The Trouble With Mrs. Blynn, The Trouble With The World’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976’ by Maile Meloy

‘Red’ by Maile Meloy

‘Thirteen And A Half’ by Maile Meloy

‘Travis, B.’ by Maile Meloy

‘Of Mystery There Is No End’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Birthday Girl’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Ant Of The Self’ by ZZ Packer

‘Every Tongue Shall Confess’ by ZZ Packer

‘Last Night’ by James Salter

‘My Flamboyant Grandson’ by George Saunders

‘Sacred Statues’ by William Trevor

2003

‘Flight Patterns’ by Sherman Alexie

‘What You Pawn I Will Redeem’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Yao’s Chick’ by Max Apple

‘Unjust’ by Richard Bausch

‘The Hurt Man’ by Wendell Berry

‘The Card Trick’ by Tessa Hadley

‘The Surrogate’ by Tessa Hadley

‘It Was Romance’ by Miranda July

‘Harvey’s Dream’ by Stephen King

‘Rest Stop’ by Stephen King

‘Extra’ by Yiyun Li

‘Catskin’ by Kelly Link

‘Gallatin Canyon’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Red From Green’ by Maile Meloy

‘Cryptology’ by Leonard Michaels

‘Debarking’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Runaway’ by Alice Munro

‘Our Lady Of Peace’ by ZZ Packer

‘Coyotes’ by Andrew Porter

‘Officer Friendly’ by Lewis Robinson

‘Bangkok’ by James Salter

‘Jon’ by George Saunders

‘Martha, Martha’ by Zadie Smith

‘Class Picture’ by Tobias Wolff

2004

‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979’ by Daniel Alarcón

‘Don’t Send A Boy To Do A Man’s Work’ by Wendell Berry

‘Chicxulub’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Malta Sheffer’ by Nelson Eubanks

‘The Appropriation Of Cultures’ by Percival Everett

‘Closing Time’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Drive’ by Cristina Henríquez

‘The Man On The Stairs’ by Miranda July

‘The Best Christmas Ever’ by James Patrick Kelly

‘Brides’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Company Of Strangers’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Femme’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Foaling Season’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Draft Day’ by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

‘Sault Ste. Marie’ by David Means

‘Celebrations Of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings’ by Ana Menéndez

‘Chance’ by Alice Munro

‘The Cousins’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Adams’ by George Saunders

‘The Dancing-Master’s Music’ by William Trevor

‘Graillis’s Legacy’ by William Trevor

‘Incarnations Of Burned Children’ by David Foster Wallace

‘My Brother At The Canadian Border’ by Sholeh Wolpé

2005

‘Reading Lessons’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘The Gorge’ by Umberto Eco

‘The Flaw In The Design’ by Deborah Eisenberg

‘City Visit’ by Adam Haslett

‘Beach Town’ by Amy Hempel

‘Offertory’ by Amy Hempel

‘Ashes’ by Cristina Henríquez

‘Some Terpsichore’ by Elizabeth McCracken

‘Cowboy’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Ice’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Old Christmas’ by Stephen Merion

‘The Juniper Tree’ by Lorrie Moore

‘The View From Castle Rock’ by Alice Munro

‘Wenlock Edge’ by Alice Munro

‘The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The Shinagawa Monkey’ by Haruki Murakami

‘High Lonesome’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Smother’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Haunting Olivia’ by Karen Russell

‘Brad Carrigan, American’ by George Saunders

‘Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father And Husband’ by George Saunders

‘Ambush’ by Donna Tartt

‘Awaiting Orders’ by Tobias Wolff

2006

‘Republica Y Grau’ by Daniel Alarcón

‘The Canoeists’ by Rick Bass

‘Snakebite’ by Arthur Bradford

‘Twilight Of The Superheroes’ by Deborah Eisenberg

‘A Family Like Any Other’ by Carlos Fuentes

‘Good Boys Deserve Favors’ by Neil Gaiman

‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ by Neil Gaiman

‘L. DeBard And Aliette’ by Lauren Groff

‘Matrilineal’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Chasing Birds’ by Cristina Henríquez

‘Three Days’ by Samantha Hunt

‘The Yo-Yo’ by P.D. James

‘Something That Needs Nothing’ by Miranda July

‘Allegiance’ by Aryn Kyle

‘North Coast’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Old Friends’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Vicious Circle’ by Thomas McGuane

‘In The Reign Of Harad IV’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Paper Losses’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Kansas’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Landfill’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Accident Brief’ by Karen Russell

‘Ava Wrestles The Alligator’ by Karen Russell

‘Lady Yeti And The Palace Of Artificial Snows’ by Karen Russell

‘St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves’ by Karen Russell

‘ZZ’s Sleep-Away Camp For Disordered Dreamers’ by Karen Russell

‘A Priest In The Family’ by Colm Tóibín

‘Folie À Deux’ by William Trevor

2007

‘Hollywood Lanes’ by Megan Abbott

‘Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening’ by Megan Abbott

‘Today We Hit’ by Megan Abbott

‘North Of’ by Marie-Helene Bertino

‘The Cold Outside’ by John Burnside

‘Television’ by Lydia Davis

‘Alma’ by Junot Diaz

‘The Pram’ by Roddy Doyle

‘If I Vanish’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Waiting’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Found Objects’ by Jennifer Egan

‘When We Went To See The End Of The World By Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼’ by Neil Gaiman

‘College Town, 1980’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Different Shorelines’ by S.E. Hinton

‘How To Tell Stories To Children’ by Miranda July

‘Roy Spivey’ by Miranda July

‘The Swim Team’ by Miranda July

‘O Tannenbaum’ by Maile Meloy

‘Fiction’ by Alice Munro

‘Heirs’ by Amos Oz

‘Gideon’ by ZZ Packer

‘Puppy’ by George Saunders

‘Bravado’ by William Trevor

‘Good People’ by David Foster Wallace

2008

‘The Headstrong Historian’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘Fly Away, Breath’ by Wendell Berry

‘Blue Girl’ by Elizabeth Crane

‘You Must Be This Happy To Enter’ by Elizabeth Crane

‘Bullfighting’ by Roddy Doyle

‘Until The Girl Died’ by Anne Enright

‘Robert E. Lee Is Dead’ by Danielle Evans

‘The Dinner Party’ by Joshua Ferris

‘Playing Before Royalty’ by Ian MacMillan

‘Foes’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Waiting’ by Amos Oz

‘Departure’ by Andrew Porter

‘Hole’ by Andrew Porter

‘Them Old Cowboy Songs’ by Annie Proulx

‘Leopard’ by Wells Tower

‘The Woman Of The House’ by William Trevor

‘The Full Glass’ by John Updike

‘Cattle Haul’ by Jesmyn Ward

‘Awake’ by Tobias Wolff

2009

‘It’s Like A Whisper’ by Megan Abbott

‘Charity’ by Cara Blue Adams

‘Breaking And Entering’ by Sherman Alexie

‘War Dances’ by Sherman Alexie

‘Donkey Gets Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched’ by Steve Almond

‘Seiche’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Resistance’ by Stephan Enter

‘Mirrorball’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘How’ by Roxane Gay

‘At The Zoo’ by Caitlin Horrocks

‘On The Oregon Trail’ by Caitlin Horrocks

‘Premium Harmony’ by Stephen King

‘The Vanishing American’ by Leslie Parry

‘The Ascent’ by Ron Rash

‘Al Roosten’ by George Saunders

‘The Red Bow’ by George Saunders

‘Victory Lap’ by George Saunders

‘Birds In The Mouth’ by Samanta Schweblin

‘Headlights’ by Samanta Schweblin

‘Indianapolis (Highway 74)’ by Sam Shepard

‘The Five Wounds’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

‘You Are Not Alone’ by Vauhini Vara

‘Fauntleroy’s Ghost’ by Vinnie Wilhelm

2010

‘Birdsong’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘The Warm Fuzzies’ by Chris Adrian

‘Fjord Of Killary’ by Kevin Barry

‘Free Fruit For Young Widows’ by Nathan Englander

‘The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire’ by Rivka Galchen

‘Butcher’s Perfume’ by Sarah Hall

‘The Young Painters’ by Nicole Krauss

‘Boys And Girls Like You And Me’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Economics’ by Aryn Kyle

‘Sex Scenes From A Chain Book Store’ by Aryn Kyle

‘The Worm In Philly’ by Sam Lipsyte

‘Comma’ by Hilary Mantel

‘Feather Girls’ by Claire Massey

‘If It Keeps On Raining’ by Jon McGregor

‘The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934’ by David Means

‘When The Door Closed, It Was Dark’ by Alison Moore

‘Corrie’ by Alice Munro

‘Escape From Spiderhead’ by George Saunders

‘The Landlord’ by Wells Tower

‘The Last Thing We Need’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

‘The Past Perfect, The Past Continuous, The Simple Past’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

2011

‘Stone Mattress’ by Margaret Atwood

‘William Wei’ by Amie Barrodale

‘Going For A Beer’ by Robert Coover

‘Miracles’ by Lucy Corin

‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank’ by Nathan Englander

‘The Years Of My Birth’ by Louise Erdrich

‘The Other Place’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Clever Girl’ by Tessa Hadley

‘The Stain’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Sun City’ by Caitlin Horrocks

‘The Dune’ by Stephen King

‘The Paper Menagerie’ by Ken Liu

‘Rollingwood’ by Ben Marcus

‘What Have You Done?’ by Ben Marcus

‘Miracle Polish’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Axis’ by Alice Munro

‘Dear Life’ by Alice Munro

‘Gravel’ by Alice Munro

‘Diem Perdidi’ by Julie Otsuka

‘The King Of Norway’ by Amos Oz

‘The Cold Boy’ by Benjamin Percy

‘Home’ by George Saunders

‘Tenth Of December’ by George Saunders

‘La Moretta’ by Maggie Shipstead

‘I Arrive First’ by Emma Jane Unsworth

2012

‘The Provincials’ by Daniel Alarcon

‘A Cruelty’ by Kevin Barry

‘The Doctor And The Rabbi’ by Aimee Bender

‘Rumm Road’ by Alice Elliott Dark

‘Ordinary Nudes’ by Stuart Dybek

‘Tosca’ by Stuart Dybek

‘An Abduction’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes’ by M.J. Hyland

‘Encounters With Unexpected Animals’ by Bret Anthony Johnston

‘Batman And Robin Have An Altercation’ by Stephen King

‘Watching Mysteries With My Mother’ by Ben Marcus

‘The Proxy Marriage’ by Maile Meloy

‘Referential’ by Lorrie Moore

‘The Eye’ by Alice Munro

‘Night’ by Alice Munro

‘Train’ by Alice Munro

‘Voices’ by Alice Munro

‘Chapter Two’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Funny Once’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Literally’ by Antonya Nelson

‘The Semplica Girl Diaries’ by George Saunders

‘Inventing Wampanoag, 1672’ by Ben Shattuck

‘Permission To Enter’ by Zadie Smith

‘Blackie’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘Christmas Longings’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘A Talking Cure’ by Justin Taylor

‘Nemecia’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

‘Lorry Raja’ by Madhuri Vijay

‘The Archivist’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

‘Ghosts, Cowboys’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

‘Rondine Al Nido’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

‘Virginia City’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

‘Wish You Were Here’ by Claire Vaye Watkins

2013

‘My Heart Is Either Broken’ by Megan Abbott

‘The Sea Latch’ by Cara Blue Adams

‘Collectors’ by Daniel Alarcon

‘Former Marine’ by Russell Banks

‘Modern Girls’ by Teju Cole

‘Flotsam’ by Diane Cook

‘The Colonel’s Daughter’ by Robert Coover

‘The Christmas Miracle’ by Rebecca Curtis

‘The Two Davises And The Rugs’ by Lydia Davis

‘Sugar Babies’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘Down To A Sunless Sea’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Absit’ by Angélica Gorodischer

‘Bad Dreams’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Mrs. Fox’ by Sarah Hall

‘Then Later, His Ghost’ by Sarah Hall

‘Paranoia’ by Shirley Jackson

‘This Is Paradise’ by Kristiana Kahakauwila

‘Success’ by Adriana Lisboa

‘Doctors’ by Anneliese Mackintosh

‘The Dark Arts’ by Ben Marcus

‘I Can Say Many Nice Things’ by Ben Marcus

‘Coming Soon’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Bettering Myself’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘A Dark And Winding Road’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘The Weirdos’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘First Husband’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Mastiff’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘The Knowers’ by Helen Phillips

‘Rough Deeds’ by Annie Proulx

‘Reeling For The Empire’ by Karen Russell

‘Thunderbirds: Who, Why, and How’ by Rebecca Scherm

‘The Embassy Of Cambodia’ by Zadie Smith

‘Meet The President!’ by Zadie Smith

‘On The Hill’ by Elizabeth Spencer

‘Snow Blind’ by Elizabeth Strout

‘Detour’ by Évelyne Trouillot

‘Katania’ by Lara Vapnyar

‘I, Buffalo’ by Vauhini Vara

2014

‘The Emerald Light In The Air’ by Donald Antrim

‘Ain’t That Good News’ by Brit Bennett

‘The Frog Prince’ by Robert Coover

‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek

‘The Alaska Of Giants And Gods’ by Dave Eggers

‘Any Further West’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘Sabrina And Corina’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘Click-Clack The Rattlebag’ by Neil Gaiman

‘Apple Cake’ by Allegra Goodman

‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon

‘One Saturday Morning’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Cranberry Relish’ by Katherine Heiny

‘Serve-And-Volley Near Vichy’ by Greg Jackson

‘One Gram Short’ by Etgar Keret

‘A Sheltered Woman’ by Yiyun Li

‘When I Die, This Is How I Want It To Be’ by Anneliese Mackintosh

‘The Long QT’ by Hilary Mantel

‘Madame Lazarus’ by Maile Meloy

‘Subject To Search’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Thank You For Having Me’ by Lorrie Moore

‘A Clean Marriage’ by Sayaka Murata

‘Scheherazade’ by Haruki Murakami

‘The There There’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Winter In Yalta’ by Antonya Nelson

‘Roy’ by Timothy Willis Sanders

‘Filling Up With Sugar’ by Yuten Sawanishi

‘Moonlit Landscape With Bridge’ by Zadie Smith

‘Ordinary Sins’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

2015

‘The Little Men’ by Megan Abbott

‘Yancey’ by Ann Beattie

‘Taylor Swift’ by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

‘B.F. And Me’ by Lucia Berlin

‘Dismemberment’ by Wendell Berry

‘Edna In Rain’ by Marie-Helene Bertino

‘Exit Zero’ by Marie-Helene Bertino

‘Little Man’ by Michael Cunningham

‘Sisters’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘Silk Brocade’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Treasure State’ by Smith Henderson

‘My Life Is A Joke’ by Sheila Heti

‘The Weave’ by Charles Johnson

‘Late’ by Steven Millhauser

‘Paddle To Canada’ by Heather Monley

‘The Prospectors’ by Karen Russell

‘An Unlucky Man’ by Samanta Schweblin

‘Bad Latch’ by Curtis Sittenfeld

‘Escape From New York’ by Zadie Smith

‘Donna’ by Michaella Thornton

‘Neighbors’ by Anthony Tognazzini

‘Mojave Rats’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

2016

‘Oxford Girl’ by Megan Abbott

‘The Finkelstein 5’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

‘Bad Behavior’ by Alexia Arthurs

‘Anhedonia, Here I Come’ by Colin Barrett

‘Deer Season’ by Kevin Barry

‘Are We Not Men?’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘God’s Work’ by Kevin Canty

‘A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness’ by Jai Chakrabarti

‘Exteriors’ by Kathleen Collins

‘The Hanging Of The Schoolmarm’ by Robert Coover

‘Invasion Of The Martians’ by Robert Coover

‘The Mechanic’ by Lena Dunham

‘All Her Names’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘How Can I Help?’ by Rivka Galchen

‘Flower Hunters’ by Lauren Groff

‘The Midnight Zone’ by Lauren Groff

‘Dido’s Lament’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Three Short Moments In A Long Life’ by John L’Heureux

‘A Penny Short’ by Pete Hsu

‘To The Moon And Back’ by Etgar Keret

‘Ancient Rome’ by Kyle McCarthy

‘My Purple Scented Novel’ by Ian McEwan

‘The Beach Boy’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘An Honest Woman’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘The MYMan Solution’ by Helen Phillips

‘At The Clinic’ by Sally Rooney

‘Concord 34’ by Sally Rooney

‘Mr. Salary’ by Sally Rooney

‘The Bog Girl’ by Karen Russell

‘Head Over Knees’ by Eric Schlich

‘Gender Studies’ by Curtis Sittenfeld

‘Two Men Arrive In A Village’ by Zadie Smith

‘Aspic’ by Tatyana Tolstaya

‘Stuff’ by Joy Williams

‘Some Get Back’ by Robert J. Williams

‘Spirit Of Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson

‘Fable’ by Charles Yu

2017

‘Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest’ by Sherman Alexie

‘You’re The Sweetest’ by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

‘Most Die Young’ by Camille Bordas

‘Northeast Regional’ by Emma Cline

‘Envoy’ by Caleb Crain

‘Monster’ by Michael Czyzniejewski

‘The Itch’ by Don DeLillo

‘The Hotel’ by Anne Enright

‘Solstice’ by Anne Enright

‘Independent Living’ by Jonathan Escoffery

‘The Okiedoke’ by Sidik Fofana

‘The Rent Manual’ by Sidik Fofana

‘FAQs’ by Allegra Goodman

‘An Evening Out’ by Garth Greenwell

‘Funny Little Snake’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Everything Is Far From Here’ by Cristina Henríquez

‘Control Negro’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

‘The Metal Bowl’ by Miranda July

‘Fly Already’ by Etgar Keret

‘As You Would Have Told It To Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died’ by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

‘Signal’ by John Lanchester

‘On The Street Where You Live’ by Yiyun Li

‘Blueprints For St. Louis’ by Ben Marcus

‘Buck Boy’ by James McBride

‘Father Abe’ by James McBride

‘Ray-Ray’s Picture Box’ by James McBride

‘The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set’ by James McBride

‘Riddle’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Two Ruminations On A Homeless Brother’ by David Means

‘What Feminism Is’ by Louise Nealon

‘Eula’ by Deesha Philyaw

‘Mrs. Charbury At Eltham’ by Max Porter

‘Cat Person’ by Kristen Roupenian

‘The Huntress’ by Sofia Samatar

‘You Are Happy?’ by Akhil Sharma

‘Show Don’t Tell’ by Curtis Sittenfeld

‘The Lazy River’ by Zadie Smith

‘The Walk’ by Elizabeth Strout

‘Night Of The Living Rez’ by Morgan Talty

‘Heart Of Hearts’ by Emily Temple

2018

‘The Intermediate Class’ by Sam Allingham

‘The Coast Of Leitrim’ by Kevin Barry

‘The State Of Nature’ by Camille Bordas

‘I Walk Between The Raindrops’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Without Inspection’ by Edwidge Danticat

‘The Third Tower’ by Deborah Eisenberg

‘Hellion’ by Julia Elliott

‘The Break Up Of Ice’ by Lucie Elven

‘Displaced’ by Richard Ford

‘Acceptance Journey’ by Mary Gaitskill

‘Texas’ by David Gates

‘Dogs Go Wolf’ by Lauren Groff

‘Under The Wave’ by Lauren Groff

‘Cecilia Awakened’ by Tessa Hadley

‘A Prize For Every Player’ by A.M. Homes

‘Seeing Ershadi’ by Nicole Krauss

‘The Long Black Line’ by John L’Heureux

‘The Boundary’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Looking For A Thief’ by Danielle Lazarin

‘When We Were Happy We Had Other Names’ by Yiyun Li

‘Oliver’ by Kevin Maloney

‘The State’ by Tommy Orange

‘Summer 1976’ by Chris Power

‘Thrift Store Coats’ by Brooks Rexroat

‘Zero Pineapples’ by Timothy Willis Sanders

‘Road’s End’ by Alexis Smith

‘Now More Than Ever’ by Zadie Smith

‘Burn’ by Morgan Talty

‘Our Sleeping Lungs Opened To The Cold’ by Elizabeth Tan

‘The Body’s Defenses Against Itself’ by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

‘This Is Salvaged’ by Vauhini Vara

‘Omakase’ by Weike Wang

‘Waugh’ by Bryan Washington

2019

‘The Intruder’ by Nada Alic

‘Only Orange’ by Camille Bordas

‘The Presentation On Egypt’ by Camille Bordas

‘Asleep At The Wheel’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

‘Son Of Friedman’ by Emma Cline

‘What Can You Do With A General’ by Emma Cline

‘The Curfew’ by Roddy Doyle

‘The Stone’ by Louise Erdrich

‘Remedies’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘Back Then’ by Mary Grimm

‘Brawler’ by Lauren Groff

‘The Bunty Club’ by Tessa Hadley

‘The Woman The Book Read’ by Sarah Hall

‘Korean Jesus’ by Pete Hsu

‘She Said He Said’ by Hanif Kureishi

‘The Children’ by Andrea Lee

‘Principal Alpaca’ by Richard Leise

‘The Starlet Apartments’ by Jonathan Lethem

‘All Will Be Well’ by Yiyun Li

‘It’s Not You’ by Elizabeth McCracken

‘Wide Spot’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Christmas At The Cross’ by Maeve Murphy

‘Color And Light’ by Sally Rooney

‘Bad Boy’ by Kristen Roupenian

‘Look At Your Game, Girl’ by Kristen Roupenian

‘Elliott Spencer’ by George Saunders

‘Dandelion’ by Lore Segal

‘Old Hope’ by Clare Sestanovich

‘The Confession’ by Leïla Slimani

‘Plan Of The Peak Cavern’ by Emily Temple

‘Guests’ by Mary Terrier

‘The Cult Of Mary’ by Laura Van Den Berg

‘To Do’ by Kate Walbert

‘Magnificent Desolation’ by Jess Walter

‘The Trip’ by Weike Wang

‘Future Cat’ by Xuan Juliana Wang

‘The Match’ by Colson Whitehead

2020

‘Who’s-Dead McCarthy’ by Kevin Barry

‘Comfort’ by Jamel Brinkley

‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley

‘Fish And Fences’ by Veeda Bybee

‘Close Enough’ by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

‘The Ugliest Babies In The World’ by Vanessa Chan

‘Flashlight’ by Susan Choi

‘Life Without Children’ by Roddy Doyle

‘Odd Jobs’ by Jonathan Escoffery

‘Pestilence’ by Jonathan Escoffery

‘The Yellow Ranch’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘The Young Entrepreneurs Of Miss Bristol’s Front Porch’ by Sidik Fofana

‘Out There’ by Kate Folk

‘The Run Of Yourself’ by Richard Ford

‘Virginia Is Not Your Home’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

‘The Media’ by Ben Lerner

‘The Afterlife’ by Jonathan Lethem

‘Island Rodeo Queen’ by Yamile Saied Méndez

‘Face Time’ by Lorrie Moore

‘Haunted’ by Walter Mosley

‘The (Unhealthy) Breakfast Club’ by Monica Roe

‘Love Letter’ by George Saunders

‘Annunciation’ by Clare Sestanovich

‘Three Women Of Chuck’s Donuts’ by Anthony Veasna So

‘The Age Of Love’ by Mary South

‘The Blessing Tobacco’ by Morgan Talty

‘Unknown Unknowns’ by Vauhini Vara

‘You Are My Dear Friend’ by Madhuri Vijay

‘Visitor’ by Bryan Washington

2021

‘Seeing Clear’ by Cara Blue Adams

‘You Never Get It Back’ by Cara Blue Adams

‘Offside Constantly’ by Camille Bordas

‘The Scooby-Doo Lunch Box’ by Quinton Bradley

‘Ghost Sickness’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘The Cure’ by Melissa Febos

‘The Wind’ by Lauren Groff

‘Coda’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Buying A House Ahead Of The Apocalypse’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

‘My Apology’ by Sam Lipsyte

‘Fern King’ by Kevin Maloney

‘Balloons’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Not Here You Don’t’ by Thomas McGuane

‘The Meeting’ by Alix Ohlin

‘Unread Messages’ by Sally Rooney

‘The Mom Of Bold Action’ by George Saunders

‘Separation’ by Clare Sestanovich

‘Ten-Year Affair’ by Erin Somers

‘Foster’ by Bryan Washington

2022

‘Invisible Bird’ by Claire-Louise Bennett

‘The Pleasures Of Television’ by Rebecca Bernard

‘One Sun Only’ by Camille Bordas

‘Xífù’ by K-Ming Chang

‘The Boy Upstairs’ by Joshua Ferris

‘Federation For The Like-Minded’ by Sidik Fofana

‘Ms. Dallas’ by Sidik Fofana

‘Moist House’ by Kate Folk

‘After The Funeral’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Game Five’ by Pete Hsu

‘King Kong Korab’ by Pete Hsu

‘So Late In The Day’ by Claire Keegan

‘Five Weddings’ by Kevin Maloney

‘Take Half, Leave Half’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Peach Cobbler’ by Deesha Philyaw

‘Two Men’ by Andrew Porter

‘My House’ by George Saunders

‘A Thing At Work’ by George Saunders

‘You Tell Me’ by Clare Sestanovich

‘Trash’ by Souvankham Thammavongsa

‘Heathen’ by Mike Wilson

2023

‘The Choc-Ice Woman’ by Mary Costello

‘Keats At Twenty-Four’ by Caleb Crain

‘How I Became A Vet’ by Rivka Galchen

‘The Maths Tutor’ by Tessa Hadley

‘Frights’ by Allegra Hyde

‘One-Percent Humidity’ by Michelle Lyn King

‘The Third Person’ by Richard Leise

‘Wednesday’s Child’ by Yiyun Li

‘When Stars Collide’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

‘The Disappeared’ by Andrew Porter

‘On The Agenda’ by Lore Segal

‘Different People’ by Clare Sestanovich

‘Julia’ by Ada Zhang

2024

‘Thataway’ by Thomas McGuane

‘Chance The Cat’ by David Means

‘Late Love’ by Joyce Carol Oates