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Favourite Short Stories

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Metamorphosis

12,607 members

222 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dbancrof, ahef1963

2

by Shirley Jackson

1,180 members

43 reviews

4

2 Members: dbancrof, ahef1963

3

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,155 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: dbancrof

4

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,242 members

146 reviews

4.1

Member: dbancrof

5

Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

639 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: dbancrof

6

In the Penal Colony [short story]

596 members

11 reviews

4

Member: dbancrof

7

The Library of Babel [short story]

by Jorge Luis Borges

498 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dbancrof

8

The Last Question

by Isaac Asimov

433 members

22 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: dbancrof

9

by Nikolaj Gogol

413 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dbancrof

10

You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories

by Kristen Roupenian

376 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dbancrof

11

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

by J. D. Salinger

86 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: dbancrof

12

A Hunger Artist [short story]

80 members

3.9

Member: dbancrof

13

Nightfall [novelette]

by Isaac Asimov

30 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dbancrof

14

"—And He Built a Crooked House" [short fiction]

by Robert A. Heinlein

27 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: dbancrof

15

The Nine Billion Names of God {story}

by Arthur C. Clarke

25 members

1 review

4.1

Member: dbancrof

16

The Last of the Masters

by Philip K. Dick

13 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dbancrof

17

The Wall of Darkness

by Arthur C. Clarke

11 members

½ 3.4

Member: dbancrof

18

'—All You Zombies—'

by Robert A. Heinlein

9 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dbancrof

19

The Lottery in Babylon [short story]

by Jorge Luis Borges

9 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dbancrof

20

The Secret Miracle

by Jorge Luis Borges

8 members

4

Member: dbancrof

21

Šakalai ir arabai

3 members

5

Member: dbancrof

22

by Haruki Murakami

3 members

3.8

Member: dbancrof

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Started: dbancrof
February 2020
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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