The 20 Best Short Stories of the 20th Century Ranked
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Last year I read 20 of the best short stories of the 20th century. I have now ranked them.
Original project:
• ISO The Best Short Sto...
Reading order:
To Build a Fire by Jack London (1908)
The Dead by James Joyce (1914)
The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka (1922)
The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence (1926)
A Clean, Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway (1933)
Barn Burning by William Faulkner (1939)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright (1940)
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorges Louis Borges (1948)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1953)
The Guest by Albert Camus (1957)
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin (1957)
Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth (1959)
A&P by John Updike (1961)
The Swimmer by John Cheever (1964)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates (1966)
The Sea of Lost Time by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972)
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (1991)
Emergency by Denis Johnson (1992)
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Great video …I’m definitely going to try some of those .
Really enjoyed your wrap up Greg. I’ve only read a couple of yours, so I need to track some of them down 😊
I enjoyed the video. The best SF short stories of the twentieth century would be my choice for your next project.
Thanks. Your list is spot-on, and want to add some more recent ones. Would recommend any from the two volumes of stories by Edward P. Jones, either Lost in the City or All Aunt Hagar's Children. Among the latter "Tapestry", "A Rich Man," and "Bad Neighbors." Also the wild Southerner Barry Hannah is a gold mine of favorites, with "Get Some Young" my favorite. Robert Louis Strevenson was great with short stories. Jeckyll and Hyde if you can pretend you don't know the story when you read it. So many possibilities!
@@bbbartolo I have a few collections of Berry Hannah. Airships and Bats Out of Hell. He was a good writer. RLS would definitely be on the list if I get around to 19th century stories.
Your readers may be interested in selections from ALL Barry Hannah story editions called "Long, Last, Happy." remaindered some places and very good buy as an ebook. Forgot to mention short stories by Tillie Olsen (Tell Me a Riddle has "I Stand Here Ironing")-Hemingway was an admirer-also Gilbert Sorrentino (Little Casino), Italo Calvino too. So many memorable ones...Tony Cade Bambara for capturing children's voices...Thumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies is really a collection of short stories, in spite of the "novel" subtitle, and had a lot of memorable ones.
I’m glad to see the summing up. Oddly enough, of short stories I’ve read, I doubt there’s another that has made a greater impression on me than your #20. Well, I’d have to think too hard to confirm this. (Actually “The Next Village” by Kafka would be the top, but it’s pretty short.) I have yet to get to Flannery O’Connor.
@@davidnovakreadspoetry I don’t remember The Next Village. I may not have read it.
I’ve read several of the stories on your list and they are all memorable. Recently, I reread “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and it still triggered some suspense even though I knew what was coming.
A story you might want to check out is “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin (1894) takes the reader on a remarkable rollercoaster of emotions in 3 pages.
Was glad to see "A&P" by John Updike on your list. I really like that one. "Pigeon Feathers," though, is pretty good.
It's a good list.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt Thanks
Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway is good. Best wishes!
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk Hills is indeed one of his best.
No Graham Greene nor Somerset Maugham - you have a long way to go, mate.