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ENGL 1302 Readings: Short Stories

This guide contains readings from the TCC Library collections and online literature resources to support ENGL 1302 classes. For questions, please contact ask.librarian@tccd.edu or your library liaison.

A Note about Limited Reader Stories

Some of the short stories below limit the number of readers at a time. Please close your browser tab when you are finished with the story so the next student can read it. 

Authors A-K

Abu-Jaber, Diana

 

Anderson, Sherwood

 

Anonymous

 

Alexie, Sherman

 

Allende, Isabel

 

Allison, Dorothy

 

Angelou, Maya

 

Atwood, Margaret

 

Austin, Mary

 

Baldwin, James

 

Bambara, Toni Cade

 

Barth, John

 

Baxter, Charles

 

Bender, Aimee

 

Bierce, Ambrose

 

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

 

Cable, George Washington

 

Capote, Truman

 

Carver, Raymond

 

Cather, Willa

 

Chestnutt, Charles 

 

Chopin, Kate

 

Cisneros, Sandra

 

Cooke, Rose Terry

 

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice

 

Eaton, Edith Maud (writing as Sui Sin Far)

 

Ellison, Ralph

 

Faulkner, William

 

Febos, Melissa

 

Freeman, Mary E.

 

Gaiman, Neil

 

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

 

Gish, Jen

 

Glaskell, Elizabeth

 

Glaspell, Susan

 

Halaby, Laila

 

Harrow, Alix E.

 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

 

Hemingway, Ernest

 

Henry, O. 

 

Hughes, Langston

The Ways of White Folks, 1934, Anthology

 

Laughing to Keep from Crying, 1952, Anthology

 

Something in Common and Other Stories, 1963, Anthology

 

Uncollected Stories, Anthology

 

Hurston, Zora Neale

 

Jacobs, W.W.

 

Jackson, Shirley

 

Jewett, Sarah Orne

 

Jin, Ha

 

Joyce, James

The Dubliners, 1914 

 

Jung-hee, Oh

 

Kincaid, Jamaica

 

King, Grace Elizabeth

 

King, Stephen

 

Klay, Phil

Authors L-Z

Lahiri, Jhumpa

 

Le Guin, Ursula

 

Lessing, Doris

 

Margulies, Abby

 

Maupassant, Guy de

 

Murakami, Haruki

 

Murfree, Mary Noialles (writing as Charles Egbert Craddock)

 

Noble, Frances Khirallah

 

Oates, Joyce Carol

 

O'Brien, Tim

 

O'Connor, Flannery

 

Olsen, Tillie

 

Packer, ZZ

 

Petry, Ann

 

Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Short Stories (selected stories are listed below)

 

Rodriguez, Luis J.

 

Rushdie, Salman

 

Sarrafian Ward, Patricia

 

Sayers, Dorothy

 

Silko, Leslie Marmon

 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

 

Tan, Amy

 

Toomer, Jean

 

Updike, John

 

Veselka, Vanessa

 

Walker, Alice

 

Wallace, David Foster

 

Welty, Eudora

 

Zambra, Alejandro

 

Zitkala Sa (also known as Gertrude Simmons)