Last Updated on March 9, 2025

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Last Updated: March 9, 2025

Short Stories for High School Students

1. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

2. A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger

3. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

6. Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes

7. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

8. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

9. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

10. The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

11. Cooking Time by Anita Roy

12. Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13. The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

14. Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin

15. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury

16. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

17. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

18. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

19. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

20. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

21. The Wretched and the Beautiful by E. Lily Yu

22. Skin by Roald Dahl

23. The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

24. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

25. The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty

26. To Build a Fire by Jack London

27. The Landlady by Roald Dahl

28. Eraser Tattoo by Jason Reynolds

29. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

30. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

31. The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

32. Two Kinds by Amy Tan

33. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

34. The Bet by Anton Chekhov

35. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36. Araby by James Joyce

37. Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

38. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

39. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

40. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

41. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

42. Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

43. The Lady With the Dog Anton Chekov

44. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

45. The Interlopers by Saki

46. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

47. Before the Law by Franz Kafka

48. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

49. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

50. Marigolds by Eugenia Collier

51. The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

52. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

53. The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton

54. The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

55. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

56. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

57. Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing

58. In the Cart by Anton Chekov

59. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

60. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

61. The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

62. EveryDay Use by Alice Walker

63. Charles by Shirley Jackson

64. Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

65. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

66. The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67. The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke

68. The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe

69. The Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway

70. The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

71. Beware Of the Dog by Roald Dahl

72. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

73. The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury

74. The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link

75. A Horseman in the Sky Ambrose Bierce

76. The Flowers by Alice Walker

77. Man From the South by Roald Dahl

78. Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant

79. Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor

80. Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant

81. The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

82. The Storm by Kate Chopin

83. The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury

84. The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick

85. Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver

86. A Descent Into the. Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe

87. After Twenty Years by O. Henry

88. Recitatif by Toni Morrison

89. The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Stories for High School Students

Short stories for high school are wonderful reads to get teens interested in reading the classics . There are also some great lists on Goodreads if you are searching for some more suggestions. Which short stories for high school are your favourites from the short stories for high school students list?