‘100 Years of the Best American Short Stories,’ edited by Lorrie Moore

‘The Love of a Good Woman,’ Alice Munro

‘The New Woman’s Broken Heart,’ Andrea Dworkin 

‘Her Body And Other Parties,’ Carmen Maria Machado

‘The Hour of the Star,’ Clarice Lispector 

‘Two or Three Things I Know For Sure,’ Dorothy Allison

‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ Edgar Allan Poe

‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ Flannery O’Connor

‘Complete Stories,’ Franz Kafka

‘Dubliners,’ James Joyce

‘Interpreter of Maladies,’ Jhumpa Lahiri 

‘Something Childish But Very Natural,’ Katherine Mansfield 

‘The Garden Party,’ Katherine Mansfield

‘People Like That Are the only People Here,’ Lorrie Moore

‘Good Bones,’ Margaret Atwood

‘Murder in the Dark,’ Margaret Atwood

‘Singing My Sister Down,’ Margo Lanagan

‘Difficult Women,’ Roxane Gay

‘The Lottery,’ Shirley Jackson

‘How Did You Feel About it?,’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘The Melancholy of Anatomy,’ Shelley Jackson

‘The Awakening & Other Short Stories,’ Kate Chopin

‘The Library of Babel,’ Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Daughters of the Moon,’  Italo Calvino

‘Requiem For a Glass Heart,’ Roxane Gay

‘St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves,’ Karen Russel