The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women | chosen by Victoria Hislop

LOVE

1. A Married Man’s Story – Katherine Mansfield
2. A Telephone Call – Dorothy Parker
3. A Man and Two Women – Doris Lessing
4. How I Finally Lost My Heart – Doris Lessing
5. Faithful Lovers – Margaret Drabble
6. Master – Angela Carter
7. The Man From Mars – Margaret Atwood
8. The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
9. 1944 – Ellen Gilchrist
10. The Lover – Alice Walker
11. Rue de Lille – Mavis Gallant
12. Words – Carol Shields
13. Revenge -Anne Enright
14. The Choirmaster – Elspeth Davies
15. Ilse’s House – Alison Lurie
16. In The Shadow – Alison Lurie
17. The Watch Trick – Jennifer Egan
18. Atlantic Crossing – Jeanette Winterson
19. My Son the Hero – Clare Boylan
20. The Artist – Maggie Gee
21. Kenny -Colette Paul
22. Reach – Rachel Seiffert
23. Field Study – Rachel Seiffert
24. Love in the Marketplace – Yiyun Li
25. Mother Tongue – Nadine Gordimer
26. The Shared Patio – Miranda July
27. The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
28. The Redemption of Galen Pike – Carys Davies
29. The Heart of Denis Noble – Alison MacLeod
30. The Lost Seed – Emma Donoghue
31. The Turtle – Roshi Fernando
32. Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes – M. J. Hyland
33. The Gift – Emma Donoghue
34. Millie and Bird – Avril Joy

LOSS

1. The Canary – Katherine Mansfield
2. A Walk in the Woods – Elizabeth Bowen
3. Sentiment _ Dorothy Parker
4. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
5. The Life You Save May be Your Own – Flannery O’Connor
6. The Blush – Elizaheth Taylor
7. The Sound of the River – Jean Rhys
8. A Visit – Anna Kavan
9. Obsessional – Anna Kavan
10. The First Year of My Life – Muriel Spark
11. Indignities – Ellen Gilchrist
12. The Pill-Box – Penelope Lively
13. Miles City, Montana – Alice Munro
14. Fragility – Carol Shields
15. The Merry Widow – Margaret Drabble
16. The I of It – A. M. Homes
17. The First Time – Marina Warner
18. Inside Information – Nicola Barker
19. Desideratus – Penelope Fitzgerald
20. Agnes of Iowa – Lorrie Moore
21. Curved is the Line of Beauty – Hilary Mantel
22. Father, Father – Susan Hill
23. Renaissance – Colette Paul
24. After a Life – Yiyun Li
25. Sorry? – Helen Simpson
26. Up at a Villa _ Helen Simpson
27. Plunder – Edna O’Brien
28. Aunt Telephone – Edith Pearlman
29. Vanitas – Emma Donoghue
30. Gravel – Alive Munro
31. The Eye – Alice Munro
32. Before He Left the Family – Carrie Tiffany (A)
33. Diving Belles – Lucy Wood

THE LIVES OF WOMEN

1. Consequences – Willa Cather
2. A Society – Virginia Woolf
3. Generous Pieces _ Ellen Gilchrist
4. The Waltz – Dorothy Parker
5. Through the Tunnel – Doris Lessing
6. The Axe – Penelope Fitzgerald
7. Betty – Margaret Atwood
8. A World of Her Own – Penelope Lively
9. Sale – Anita Desai
10. Mischief – Alice Munro
11. Change of Face – Elspeth Davie
12. A Weight Problem – Elspeth Davie
13. The Prescription – Penelope Fitzgerald
14. How Did I get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy. – Alice Walker
15. Corruption – Penelope Lively
16. A Real Doll – A. M. Homes
17. Yours Truly – A. M. Homes
18. (She Owns) Every Thing – Anne Enright
19. Waiting Room (The First) – Elizabeth Jolley (A)
20. Telegony I: Going into a Dark House – Jane Gardam
21. Fat People – Alison Lurie
22. G-String – Nicola Barker
23. Wesley: Blisters – Nicola Barker
24. Emerald City – Jennifer Egan
25. The Snobs – Muriel Spark
26. Third Floor Rising – Hilary Mantel
27. The Thing in the Forest – A. S. Byatt
28. Good People – Maggie Gee
29. The Child – Ali Smith
30. Story of My Life – A. L. Kennedy
31. The Man Across the River – Polly Samson
32. Ahead of the Pack – Helen Simpson
33. To Brixton Beach – Stella Duffy