Short Story Collections

I highly recommend Bob Schultz’s Created for Work, for ALL of us.  He has three other books we plan to read in the future.  Also, we have enjoyed Mildred A. Martin’s The Millers books like Wisdom and the Millers, Growing with the Millers, etc.  And we have enjoyed A Hive of Busy Bees by Effie M Williams.  These are all great for character/personal development too.  Is that what you are looking for?

Here’s a list from Memoria Press’ High School Lit course I downloaded:

High School Literature I: Short Story Reading List

“The Piece of String,” by Guy DeMaupassant

“All But Blind,” by Walter de la Mare

“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W. W. Jacobs

“A Ballad of John Silver,” by John Masefield

“The Whirligig of Life,” by O’Henry

“Apparently with No Surprise,” by Dickinson

“The Interlopers,” by Saki

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Frost

“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Stephen Crane

“Drinking,” by Cowley

“The Doomdorf Mystery,” by Melville Davisson Post

“The Adventures of the Speckled,” by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Lady & the Tiger,” by Frank Stockton

“The Sire de Maletroit’s Door,”

“Bright is the Ring” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Ambitious Guest,” Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Darken’d Veil,” by Hawthorne

“The Children’s Story,” by James Clavell

“The Stolen Child,” by W. B. Yeats

“The Telltale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe

“Penrod,” by Booth Tarkington

“The Lightning Rod Man,” by Herman Melville

“How Fear Came to the Jungle,” by Rudyard Kipling

“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Brothers are the Same,” by Beryl Markham

“To Build a Fire,” by Jack London

“Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving

“The Bet,” by Anton Checkov

“The Illiterate Spider,” by Billy C. Clark

“A Jonquil for Mary Penn,” by Wendell Berry

“The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” by Bret Harte

“The Second Coming” by William Yeats

“King Solomon of Kentucky,” by James Lane Allen

“The Killers,” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

“A Field of Rice,” by Pearl S.Buck

“Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville

“Blackberry Winter.” by Robert Penn Warren

“Barn Burning,” by William Faulkner

Also, ones I’ve enjoyed:

“The Necklace” Guy DeMaupassant

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County” Mark Twain

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell (one of my favorites)

“Poison” Ronald Dahl

“A Jury of Her Peers” Susan Glaspell

“The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Gift of the Magi” by O.Henry

“Rikki-Tiki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling

“Martin the Cobbler” by Leo Tolstoy (very good)