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Short stories

61 titles · One sitting, one story.

2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce short story Araby James Joyce short story Bartleby Herman Melville short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair F. Scott Fitzgerald short story The Bet Anton Chekhov short story The Big Trip Up Yonder Kurt Vonnegut short story Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway short story The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft short story The Colour Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald short story The Dead James Joyce short story Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin short story The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft short story The Eatonville Anthology Zora Neale Hurston short story Eveline James Joyce short story The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe short story The Furnished Room O. Henry short story Gambler's World Keith Laumer short story The Goophered Grapevine Charles W. Chesnutt short story The Hanging Stranger Philip K. Dick short story Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway short story The Inimitable Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse short story Jeeves Takes Charge P. G. Wodehouse short story The Killers Ernest Hemingway short story Little Brother Cory Doctorow short story Lord Peter Views the Body (selected stories) Dorothy L. Sayers short story The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett short story Mr. Spaceship Philip K. Dick short story The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie short story The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie short story The Mysterious Mr. Quin (selected stories) Agatha Christie short story Omnilingual H. Beam Piper short story The Open Boat Stephen Crane short story Passing Nella Larsen short story Paul's Case Willa Cather short story Pickman's Model H. P. Lovecraft short story Pillar of Fire Ray Bradbury short story The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe short story Printcrime Cory Doctorow short story The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe short story Pygmalion's Spectacles Stanley G. Weinbaum short story Red Nails (Conan) Robert E. Howard short story The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald short story Second Variety Philip K. Dick short story Siddhartha Hermann Hesse short story The Skull Philip K. Dick short story The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner short story The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison short story The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin short story The Street That Wasn't There Clifford D. Simak short story The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway short story Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick short story The Tunnel Under the World Frederik Pohl short story The Variable Man Philip K. Dick short story Very Good, Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse short story Watchbird Robert Sheckley short story Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers short story Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald short story The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne short story

Poems

50 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson poem "Out, Out—" Robert Frost poem A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe poem A narrow fellow in the grass Emily Dickinson poem America Claude McKay poem Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay poem Barter Sara Teasdale poem Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson poem Birches Robert Frost poem Caroling Dusk: Harlem Renaissance poems (selected) Countee Cullen (editor) poem Chicago Carl Sandburg poem The Creation James Weldon Johnson poem The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost poem Dream Variations Langston Hughes poem Dreams Langston Hughes poem Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen poem Fire and Ice Robert Frost poem First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay poem Heritage Countee Cullen poem I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson poem I, Too Langston Hughes poem If We Must Die Claude McKay poem In Flanders Fields John McCrae poem Incident Countee Cullen poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats poem Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot poem Mending Wall Robert Frost poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes poem Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost poem O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman poem Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley poem The Prophet (selected chapters) Kahlil Gibran poem The Raven Edgar Allan Poe poem The Road Not Taken Robert Frost poem Song of Myself (sections 1 to 6) Walt Whitman poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare poem The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost poem Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinson poem Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar poem There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale poem The Tiger William Blake poem We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar poem The Weary Blues Langston Hughes poem When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

2 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.

The Iliad Homer (Butler prose) epic The Odyssey Homer (Butler prose) epic

Chapter books and novels

37 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain novel The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton chapter set All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (A. W. Wheen) novel The Awakening Kate Chopin novel Babbitt Sinclair Lewis chapter set The Big Four Agatha Christie chapter set Cane Jean Toomer novel Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini chapter set Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers chapter set Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather chapter set Deathworld Harry Harrison chapter set Dracula Bram Stoker novel Ethan Frome Edith Wharton novel Frankenstein Mary Shelley novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald novel Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman chapter set Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte novel The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie chapter set Moby-Dick Herman Melville novel Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf novel The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie chapter set The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde novel The Planet Savers Marion Zimmer Bradley chapter set Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen novel Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey chapter set Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse chapter set The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy chapter set The Sea-Wolf Jack London chapter set The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie chapter set Show Boat Edna Ferber chapter set Space Viking H. Beam Piper chapter set The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson novel Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers chapter set The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan chapter set This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald chapter set

Plays

9 titles · Parts for the whole class.

A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare play Antigone Sophocles play Hamlet William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar William Shakespeare play Macbeth William Shakespeare play Oedipus the King Sophocles play Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare play The Tempest William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night William Shakespeare play

True stories

4 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston essay Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass memoir Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington memoir