Short Stories

(Numbers in parentheses indicate number of years the work has been on the list.)

Hop Frog

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Araby

(1)

James Joyce

The Drunkard

(2)

Frank O’Conner

The No Talent Kid

(2)

Kurt Vonnegut

The Lottery

(2)

Shirley Jackson

The Man Who Knew How

(2)

Dorothy Sayers

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

(2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Monkey’s Paw

(3)

W. W. Jacobs

Split Cherry Tree

(3)

Jessee Stuart

Lamb To The Slaughter

(3)

Roald Dahl

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

(3)

Ambrose Bierce

Through the Tunnel

(3)

Doris Lessing

The Flowers

(4)

Alice Walker

Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket

(4)

Jack Finney

The Good Deed

(4)

Pearl Buck

The First Day

(4)

Edward P. Jones

Poetry

The Death of a Hired Man

(1)

Robert Frost

I Too Sing America

(1)

Langston Hughes

Sonnet 130

(1)

William Shakespeare

My Papa’s Waltz

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Midterm Break

(1)

Seamus Heaney

I Hear America Singing

(1)

Walt Whitman

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lot’s Wife

(1)

Anna Akhmatova

Convocation Address

(2)

Nikki Giovanni

The Bells

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe

Seven Ages of Man

(2)

William Shakespeare

Casey at the Bat

(2)

Earnest Lawrence Thayer

Oranges

(2)

Gary Soto

Mirror

(2)

Sylvia Plath

Chicago

(2)

Carl Sandburg

The Hollow Men

(2)

T. S. Elliot