Short Story Books To Read

Round bird can t fly by lea mcandrews an illustrated story.

Short story books to read. These individual short stories are the best of the best and the even better news is that they re available for free online for you to peruse. Short stories by black authors for middle grade readers gorilla my love by toni cade bambara with 15 stories you get a world of of characters including children with vivacious personalities and elders cade bridges together a number of stories of poor black americans from new york to north carolina. A good man is hard to find by flannery o connor.

Ollie s jar by carol moore an illustrated story with animation. Consider this collection our grateful nod to brevity. From classics published in the 1900s to a short story that exploded in late 2017 here are ten of the greatest free short stories for you to read.

These great short books are all under 150 pages. In the penal. Interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri her body and other parties by carmen maria machado tenth of december by george.

Alphabet by rolando merino an animated story of the alphabet. The lottery by shirley jackson. What s to become of the boy.

Lamb to the slaughter by roald dahl. Short stories novellas and novels all 200 pages or less that we can consume in one sitting. Short stories are often collected together with other short stories poetry art and or essays in order to form a larger book although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand alone ebooks.

As a loose guide short novels are 200 pages or fewer novellas are 60 to 120 pages and short stories average 4 000 words. The art of war sun tzu. Long long before phoebe waller bridge caused a stir with fleabag mary gaitskill was.