The Things They Carried
Collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War
short stories
Just So Stories for Little Children
1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling
Dubliners
Collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century
The Canterbury Tales
Collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer’s magnum opus
Vacuum Diagrams
Collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter