Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time (1925)

Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones (1941)

J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories (1953)

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

Jack London (1876 – 1916)
“To Build a Fire”

James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
“The Dead”

William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963)
“The Use of Force”

Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924)
“The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” “In the Penal Colony,” “A Hunger Artist,” “A Country Doctor,” and “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk”

D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
“Odour of Chrysanthemums,” “Daughters of the Vicar,” “The Prussian Officer,” “The White Stocking,” and “Rockinghorse Winner”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937)
“The Call of Cthulhu”

Richard Connell (1893 – 1949)
“The Most Dangerous Game”

Isaac Babel (1894 – 1940)
“First Love,” “Guy de Maupassant,” “Red Cavalry,” and “Story of My Dovecote”

William Faulkner (1897 – 1962)
“A Rose for Emily”

Vladimir Nabakov (1899 – 1937)
“A Bad Day,” “The Reunion,” and “Signs and Symbols”

Frank O’Connor (1903 – 1966)
“Guests of the Nation,” “The Majesty of Law,” “First Confession,” and “My Oedipus Complex”

Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
“First Love” and “Ping”

John Cheever (1912 – 1982)
“The Swimmer,” “The Enormous Radio,” “The Country Husband,” and “The Five-Forty-Eight”

Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965)
“The Lottery”

Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985)
“The Distance of the Moon”

Flannery O’Connor (1925 – 1964)
“The Geranium,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “River,” “The Lame Shall Enter First,” “Revelation” “The Displaced Person,” “Everything That Rises Must Converge” “Enoch and the Gorilla,” “Greenleaf,” and “Judgment Day”

Donald Barthelme (1931 – 1989)
“Chablis,” “The Genius,” “Concerning the Bodyguard,” “Conversations with Goethe,” “Me and Miss Mandible,” and “The Indian Uprising”

Alice Munro (born 1931)
“Meneseteung,” “Royal Beatings,” “Friend of My Youth,” “The Love of a Good Woman,” “Runaway,” and “Silence”

Raymond Carver (1938 – 1988)
“Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?“, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “A Small Good Thing,” “Put Yourself in My Shoes,” “Feathers,” and “Cathedral”

Tim O’Brien (born 1946)
“On the Rainy River”

Lorrie Moore (born 1957)
“Paper Losses”

George Saunders (born 1958)
“Pastoralia”

Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967)
“A Temporary Matter” and “Interpreter of Maladies”