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Last Updated: April 28, 2023
Short Stories for High School Students
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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 Chekov
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
Short Stories for High School Students
Short stories for high school are wonderful books to get teens interested in reading . 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 list?