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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
4.29 average rating, · 174.3k ratings
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
4.15 average rating, · 353.2k ratings
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
4.24 average rating, · 129.6k ratings
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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
4.03 average rating, · 117.4k ratings
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
4.07 average rating, · 90k ratings
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The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
4.03 average rating, · 59.4k ratings
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
4.06 average rating, · 27.5k ratings
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Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.12 average rating, · 23.6k ratings
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
4.01 average rating, · 27.6k ratings
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A Perfect Day for Bananafish
J.D. Salinger
4.26 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl
4.16 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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The Veldt
Ray Bradbury
4.14 average rating, · 15.3k ratings
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Rimas y leyendas
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
4.09 average rating, · 14.5k ratings
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury
4.23 average rating, · 10.7k ratings
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Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin
4.33 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell
4.04 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat
4.16 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury
4.07 average rating, · 9.2k ratings
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The Last Leaf
O. Henry
4.31 average rating, · 7.2k ratings
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The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
4.56 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez
4.08 average rating, · 8k ratings
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories
Joyce Carol Oates
4.16 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway
4.08 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry
4.15 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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