just some of my favorite stories. pls holler at me about any of these, or about your favorite stories

• "a rose for emily," william faulkner
• the bell jar, sylvia plath
• "beneath the cherry trees," motojirou kajii
• bird box, josh malerman
• "the box social," james reaney
• "the cask of amontillado" & "hop-frog," edgar allan poe
• child of god, cormac mccarthy (i hate myself for adding this bc generally i loathe mccarthy & his writing)
• "the children’s story," James Clavell
• the complete fairy tales of the brothers grimm
• the complete poems, emily dickinson
• the complete stories, flannery o'connor
• the crucible, arthur miller
• "don't press charges and i won't sue," charlie jane anders
• "each thing i show you is a piece of my death," gemma files & stephen j. barringer
• ficciones & the aleph & other stories, jorge luis borges
• fly by night & cuckoo song, frances hardinge
• the girl with all the gifts, m. r. carey
• "half-hanged mary," margaret atwood
• the heart is a lonely hunter, carson mccullers
• "hell is the absence of god," ted chiang
• "how to get back to the forest," sofia samatar
• kafka on the shore & hard-boiled wonderland, haruki murakami
• the lake, banana yoshimoto
• "lamb to the slaughter," roald dahl
• "leeks," "hell screen," & "the spider's thread," ryuunosuke akutagawa
• the little prince, antoine de saint-exupéry
• lolita, vladimir nabokov (block me if you think this book was meant as an actual romance rather than a critique of child abusers, thanks!)
• long live the tribe of fatherless girls, t kira madden
• "the lottery," "the renegade," and "trial by combat," shirley jackson; def recommend checking out The Lottery and Other Stories
• mama black widow, iceberg slim
• the metamorphosis, franz kafka
• the physicists, friedrich dürrenmatt
• pop. 1280, jim thompson
• "samsa in love," haruki murakami
• scum villain's self-saving system, mo dao zu shi, and tian guan ci fu, mo xiang tong xiu
• seven japanese tales & the gourmet club, junichiro tanizaki
• the stepford wives, ira levin
• streetcar named desire, tennessee williams
• "there is no place for sorrow in the kingdom of the cold," seanan mcguire
• the tokyo zodiac murders, soji shimada
• "trifles," susan glaspell
• what it means when a man falls from the sky: stories, lesley nneka arimah
• "where are you going, where have you been," joyce carol oates (congrats to JCO on the only good thing she ever wrote)

i promise i'm reading at least 10 books at any given time but please recommend me some more