13 must-read short stories books like I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson

Cover of I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson

I'm a Fool

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.09

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Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

1. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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  • fiction
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

Cover of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

2. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

Cover of Micromegas by Voltaire, Theo Cuff

5. Micromegas

By: Voltaire , Theo Cuff

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. The Open Boat

By: Stephen Crane

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Four men struggle for survival after escaping from a sinking ship and into a small open boat. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald

7. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of God Sees the Truth, but Waits by Leo Tolstoy

8. God Sees the Truth, but Waits

By: Leo Tolstoy

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

9. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

Cover of Paul's Case by Willa Cather

10. Paul's Case

By: Willa Cather

3.83

Format: 208 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. The Killers

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.57

Format: 384 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Haircut by Ring Lardner

12. Haircut

By: Ring Lardner

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

A barber regales a customer with stories about some of the characters in his small town. read more

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  • fiction

13. Ligeia

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.51

Format: 235 pages,

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more

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14. The Two Drovers

By: Walter Scott

4.12

Format: 260 pages,

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15. Barn Burning

By: William Faulkner

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Har… read more

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16. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

17. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more

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18. Genesis

By: Anonymous

3.95

Format: None pages,

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19. Soldier's Home

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.00

Format: None pages,

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20. Mowgli's Brothers

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

Presents an adventure of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the India… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. I'm a Fool

By: Sherwood Anderson

3.09

Format: None pages, None

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15 must-read fiction books like I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

4.15

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15 best-selling fiction books like The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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Araby

James Joyce

3.65

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe , Robert Lanier

4.17

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