Most Popular Short Stories Books

Explore the most popular Short Stories books across decades, with reader ratings and discoveries from Risingshadow.

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Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Translation

1957

The Witcher #2

Sword of Destiny

Andrzej Sapkowski

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

May 18, 2015

The Cyberiad

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Translation

1967

Night Shift

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1978

Ambergris Cycle #1

City of Saints and Madmen

Jeff VanderMeer

Fantasy · New Weird · Short Stories

2001

The Black Phone and Other Stories

Joe Hill

Horror · Ghosts · Psychological Horror · Vampires · Adult

2005

The Legend of Drizzt

The Legend of Drizzt Anthology: The Collected Stories

R. A. Salvatore

Fantasy · Dungeons and Dragons · Forgotten Realms · Short Stories

January 28, 2011

The Moomin Books #6

Tales from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson

Fantasy · Childrens · Short Stories · Translation

1962

The Witcher #1

The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

June 2007

Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman

Fantasy · British Fantasy Award · Locus Award · Short Stories

September 2006

Earthsea #5

Tales from Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Locus Award · Short Stories

2001

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1950

Revelation Space #1

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

Alastair Reynolds

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Short Stories

2002

Books of Blood #1

Books of Blood: Volume One

Clive Barker

Horror · Splatterpunk · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

1984

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1975

Skeleton Crew

Stephen King

Horror · Locus Award · Short Stories

1985

Four Past Midnight

Stephen King

Horror · Bram Stoker Award · Short Stories

1990

Dying Earth #1

The Dying Earth

Jack Vance

Fantasy · Short Stories

1950

Divergent

Four: A Divergent Collection

Veronica Roth

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Young Adult · Short Stories

July 8, 2014

City

Clifford D. Simak

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1952

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1951

Tree and Leaf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Short Stories · Non-fiction

1964

Different Seasons

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1982

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1993

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

Horror · Bram Stoker Award · British Fantasy Award · Short Stories

November 1, 2010

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1970

Tales from Alagaësia #1

The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm

Christopher Paolini

Fantasy · Dragons · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

December 31, 2018

Harry Potter Companion Books

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J. K. Rowling

Fantasy · Young Adult · Harry Potter · Short Stories

December 4, 2008

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1994

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

2002

Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1999

The Jungle Books

Rudyard Kipling

Fantasy · Short Stories

2000

Lankhmar #1

Swords and Deviltry

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1970

Tales from Watership Down

Richard Adams

Fantasy · Animal Fantasy · Short Stories

1996

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Middle-earth · Poetry · Short Stories

1962

Red Queen

Cruel Crown

Victoria Aveyard

Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories

January 2016