15 Top short stories books like The Hitch-Hikers by Eudora Welty

The Hitch-Hikers

By: Eudora Welty

2.91

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Concerns a personable young traveling salesman, Tom, who picks up two drifters and drives them to D…

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Cover of Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

1. Sonny's Blues

By: James Baldwin

4.30

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more

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  • short stories
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

Cover of A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

2. A Jury of Her Peers

By: Susan Glaspell

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two women uncover the truth in a rural murder investigation. read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Best American Short Stories of the Century by Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Updike, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, E.B. White, Martha Gellhorn, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, Sherwood Anderson, Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Toomer, None, None, Alexander Godin, William Saroyan, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Paul Horgan, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, Katrina Kenison, Tennessee Williams, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Stanley Elkin, Mary Ladd Gavell, James Alan McPherson, Gish Jen, Donald Barthelme, Rosellen Brown, Alice Adams, Harold Brodkey, Saul Bellow, Ann Beattie, Susan Sontag, None, Tim O'Brien, None, Susan Glaspell, Ring Lardner

3. The Best American Short Stories of the Century

By: Ernest Hemingway , Joyce Carol Oates , William Faulkner , Raymond Carver , Willa Cather , John Cheever , Flannery O'Connor , Katherine Anne Porter , Philip Roth , Isaac Bashevis Singer , John Updike , Eudora Welty , Bernard Malamud , E.B. White , Martha Gellhorn , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Vladimir Nabokov , Sherwood Anderson , Cynthia Ozick , Elizabeth Bishop , Jean Toomer , None , None , Alexander Godin , William Saroyan , Robert Penn Warren , Richard Wright , Paul Horgan , Jean Stafford , J.F. Powers , Katrina Kenison , Tennessee Williams , Lawrence Sargent Hall , Stanley Elkin , Mary Ladd Gavell , James Alan McPherson , Gish Jen , Donald Barthelme , Rosellen Brown , Alice Adams , Harold Brodkey , Saul Bellow , Ann Beattie , Susan Sontag , None , Tim O'Brien , None , Susan Glaspell , Ring Lardner

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have lau… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

4. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Cover of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

5. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Killers by Ernest Hemingway

6. The Killers

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.57

Format: 384 pages,

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  • short stories

7. The Country Husband

By: John Cheever

3.92

Format: 358 pages,

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8. Crazy Sunday

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.18

Format: 166 pages,

Rasskazy Fitsdzheral'da. `Malen'kie zhemchuzhiny` ego tvorcheskogo naslediia. Malen'kie shedevry ps… read more

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9. The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin

By: Tennessee Williams

3.57

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
Cover of The Half-Skinned Steer by Annie Proulx

10. The Half-Skinned Steer

By: Annie Proulx

3.35

Format: 22 pages, None

Short story by Annie Proulx published in The Atlantic November, 1997. read more

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  • short stories

11. Birthmates

By: Gish Jen

2.83

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories

12. The Hitch-Hikers

By: Eudora Welty

2.91

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Concerns a personable young traveling salesman, Tom, who picks up two drifters and drives them to D… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Roses, Rhododendron by Alice Adams

13. Roses, Rhododendron

By: Alice Adams

3.70

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

Famous for illuminating the hidden workings of human relationships, Alice Adams’s short stories app… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of You're Ugly, Too by Lorrie Moore

14. You're Ugly, Too

By: Lorrie Moore

3.39

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
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15. The Ledge

By: Lawrence Sargent Hall

3.77

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The German Refugee by Bernard Malamud

16. The German Refugee

By: Bernard Malamud

4.15

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Verona: A Young Woman Speaks by Harold Brodkey

17. Verona: A Young Woman Speaks

By: Harold Brodkey

3.60

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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18. My Dead Brother Comes to America

By: Alexander Godin

4.07

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories

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King Lear

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3.91

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Shirley Jackson

4.05

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3.69

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