📚 Short Stories

The tightest narrative form — a single effect in a few thousand words, and the writers who made that length an art of its own.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject short stories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Book of Dragons	Edith Nesbit	1973	706
	His Last Bow [8 stories]	Arthur Conan Doyle	1917	583
	Just So Stories	Rudyard Kipling	1922	246
	The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allan Poe	1704	237
	Winter Dreams	F. Scott Fitzgerald	2004	120
	I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	1950	99
	Men Without Women	Ernest Hemingway	1927	85
	Nine Stories	J. D. Salinger	1948	82
	The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	1951	82
	Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	1945	78
	Tales of space and time	H. G. Wells	1899	77
	Skeleton crew	Stephen King	1985	75
	The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	1958	71
	South Sea Tales	Jack London	1911	70
	L'exil et le royaume	Albert Camus	1951	68
	Franny and Zooey	J. D. Salinger	1961	65
	Four Past Midnight	Stephen King	1990	65
	Doce cuentos peregrinos	Gabriel García Márquez	1992	63
	Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth	J.R.R. Tolkien	1980	62
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories	Ernest Hemingway	1927	59
	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More	Roald Dahl	1977	46
	Welcome to the Monkey House	Kurt Vonnegut	1950	40
	A Quiver Full of Arrows	Jeffrey Archer	1980	40
	I Sing the Body Electric!	Ray Bradbury	1969	39
	Cathedral	Raymond Carver	1983	38
	Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang	2002	34
	The Wind's Twelve Quarters	Ursula K. Le Guin	1975	33
	What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	Raymond Carver	1981	33
	A good man is hard to find	Flannery O'Connor	1955	32
	Fragile Things	Neil Gaiman	2006	32

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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