High School Literature I: Short Story Reading List
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“The Piece of String,” by Guy DeMaupassant and “All But Blind,” by Walter de la Mare
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W. W. Jacobs and “A Ballad of John Silver,” by John Masefield
“The Whirligig of Life,” by O’Henry and "Apparently with No Surprise," by Dickinson
“The Interlopers,” by Saki and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Frost
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Stephen Crane and “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," and “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"The Raven," 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 and "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 ( Please read this story before coming to class, since it is to long to read in its entirely in class.)