Short Stories

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

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

(1)

James Thurber

The Sniper

(1)

Liam O’Flaherty

The Gift of Cochise

(1)

Louis L’Amour

A Very Old Man

With Enormous Wings

(1)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hop Frog

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe

Araby

(2)

James Joyce

The Drunkard

(3)

Frank O’Conner

The No Talent Kid

(3)

Kurt Vonnegut

The Lottery

(3)

Shirley Jackson

The Man Who Knew How

(3)

Dorothy Sayers

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

(3)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Monkey’s Paw

(4)

W. W. Jacobs

Split Cherry Tree

(4)

Jessee Stuart

Lamb To The Slaughter

(4)

Roald Dahl

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

(4)

Ambrose Bierce

Through the Tunnel

(4)

Doris Lessing

Poetry

if everything happens that can’t be done 

(1)

e.e. cummings

How Do I Love Thee?

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Ballad of Birmingham

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Stone

(1)

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Woman Work

(1)

Maya Angelou

Patty’s Charcoal Drive In

(1)

Barbara Crooker

Theme for English B

(1)

Langston Hughes

When I Have Fears That

I May Cease To Be

(1)

John Keats

The Death of a Hired Man

(2)

Robert Frost

I Too Sing America

(2)

Langston Hughes

Sonnet 130

(2)

William Shakespeare

My Papa’s Waltz

(2)

Theodore Roethke

Midterm Break

(2)

Seamus Heaney

I Hear America Singing

(2)

Walt Whitman

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lot’s Wife

(2)

Anna Akhmatova