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Title	Author	Level	Difficulty	Words	Audio
2BR02B	Kurt Vonnegut	A2+	30	2,519	🔊Has audio
A Boy and His Dog	Harlan Ellison	B1	31	15,254	🔊Has audio
A Chip of Glass Ruby	Nadine Gordimer	B1	32	3,946	🔊Has audio
A Choice of Butchers	William Trevor	B1	30	6,691
A Christmas Memory	Truman Capote	B2	49	4,812	🔊Has audio
A City of Churches	Donald Barthelme	A2+	25	1,336	🔊Has audio
A Clean Well-Lighted Place	Ernest Hemingway	A2	20	1,432	🔊Has audio
A Conversation With My Father	Grace Paley	A2+	27	1,914	🔊Has audio
A Dead Woman’s Secret	Guy de Maupassant	B2+	51	1,400
A Face in the Dark	Ruskin Bond	A2+	30	529	🔊Has audio
A Good Man is Hard to Find	Flannery O’Connor	B1	32	6,456
A Great Day	Frank Sargeson	A2+	29	2,746
A Handful of Dates	Tayeb Salih	B2+	52	1,794
A Hanging	George Orwell	B2	49	1,937	🔊Has audio
A Haunted House	Virginia Woolf	B2	45	688
A Horse and Two Goats	R. K. Narayan	B2	49	6,994
A Horseman in the Sky	Ambrose Bierce	C1	63	2,487	🔊Has audio
A Joke	Anton Chekhov	B1+	42	1,626
A Jury of Her Peers	Susan Glaspell	A2+	24	8,215	🔊Has audio
A Letter to God	Gregorio López Fuentes	B1	36	1,094	🔊Has audio
A Manual for Cleaning Women	Lucia Berlin	B1	30	4,323	🔊Has audio
A Municipal Report	O. Henry	B2+	55	6,047	🔊Has audio
A Mystery of Heroism	Stephen Crane	B2+	52	3,416	🔊Has audio
A Painful Case	James Joyce	B2+	55	3,629
A Passion in the Desert	Honore de Balzac	C1+	68	5,375
A Perfect Day for Bananafish	J. D. Salinger	A2	22	4,013	🔊Has audio
A Rose for Emily	William Faulkner	B2+	53	3,706	🔊Has audio
A Shinagawa Monkey	Haruki Murakami	A2+	28	8,264
A Silver Dish	Saul Bellow	B2	46	11,540
A Sound of Thunder	Ray Bradbury	B1+	42	4,459	🔊Has audio
A Temporary Matter	Jhumpa Lahiri	B2	44	7,204
A Vendetta	Guy de Maupassant	B2	44	1,620
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings	Gabriel García Márquez	C1+	69	2,835
A Wagner Matinée	Willa Cather	C1+	69	2,853	🔊Has audio
A White Heron	Sarah Orne Jewett	B2+	56	4,254	🔊Has audio
A Worn Path	Eudora Welty	B1	35	3,271	🔊Has audio
A&P	John Updike	B2	47	2,817	🔊Has audio
After Twenty Years	O. Henry	A2+	28	1,261	🔊Has audio
Aftermath	Briohny Doyle	C1	58	3,525
Alicia & I Talking on Edna’s Steps	Sandra Cisneros	A2+	25	184	🔊Has audio
All About Suicide	Luisa Valenzuela	B1+	42	396
All at One Point	Italo Calvino	C1+	64	1,702
All Summer in a Day	Ray Bradbury	B1+	39	1,936	🔊Has audio
All You Zombies	Robert Heinlein	A2+	28	4,735	🔊Has audio
Almost No Memory	Lydia Davis	B2	47	678
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	Ambrose Bierce	C1	58	3,764	🔊Has audio
An Outpost of Progress	Joseph Conrad	B2+	52	9,533	🔊Has audio
An Uncomfortable Bed	Guy de Maupassant	B2+	50	953
And of Clay Are We Created	Isabel Allende	C2	72	4,163	🔊Has audio
Annie’s Day	Andy Weir	A2+	30	949
Answer	Fredric Brown	B2	49	252
Aquifer	Tim Winton	B2	48	5,374	🔊Has audio
Araby	James Joyce	B2	46	2,330	🔊Has audio
Armistice	Bernard Malamud	B1+	43	2,238	🔊Has audio
At Dead Dingo	Henry Lawson	B1	36	1,283
At the ‘Cadian Ball	Kate Chopin	B1	35	3,681
Axolotl	Julio Cortázar	B2+	56	2,175
Babycakes	Neil Gaiman	B1+	41	348	🔊Has audio
Bang-bang You’re Dead	Muriel Spark	B1	36	10,075
Barney	Will Stanton	B2	48	914	🔊Has audio
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street	Herman Melville	C1+	64	14,418	🔊Has audio
Bears Discover Fire	Terry Bisson	B1	32	4,571	🔊Has audio
Bible	Tobias Wolff	B1	31	4,524
Bigfoot Stole My Wife	Ron Carlson	A2+	30	1,837
Born of Man and Woman	Richard Matheson	A2+	24	1,244
Borrowing a Match	Stephen Leacock	A2+	25	504
Brokeback Mountain	Annie Proulx	B2	44	10,657	🔊Has audio
Bullet in the Brain	Tobias Wolff	B2	48	1,926	🔊Has audio
Burning in the Rain	Dambudzo Marechera	B2+	52	1,758
Button, Button	Richard Matheson	A2+	27	2,219	🔊Has audio
By the Waters of Babylon	Stephen Vincent Benét	A2+	28	5,642	🔊Has audio
Cambodian Americans Are Ready to Share Their Cuisine, On Their Terms	Maryam Jillani	C2	70	1,491
Can-Can	Arturo Vivante	A2+	25	793
Cat in the Rain	Ernest Hemingway	A2	21	1,147	🔊Has audio
Cathedral	Raymond Carver	A2	22	6,355
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	Mark Twain	B2+	54	2,619	🔊Has audio
Cell One	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	B1+	37	5,980
Charles	Shirley Jackson	A2+	25	1,598	🔊Has audio
Children of the Corn	Stephen King	B1	36	10,976	🔊Has audio
Children of the Sea	Edwidge Danticat	A2+	28	6,953	🔊Has audio
Chivalry	Neil Gaiman	B1+	40	4,459	🔊Has audio
Christmas Day in the Morning	Pearl S. Buck	A2+	28	1,323	🔊Has audio
City of Specters	Bandi	C1	57	6,444
Civil Peace	Chinua Achebe	B2	44	1,987
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey	Haruki Murakami	B1	35	6,111
Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets	Jack Finney	C1+	64	6,720	🔊Has audio
Counterfeit Bills	Richard Matheson	C1	62	710
Cranes	Hwang Sun-won	A2+	29	1,575	🔊Has audio
Crossing the Zbrucz	Isaac Babel	B2+	50	632
Dante and the Lobster	Samuel Beckett	B1+	43	4,309	🔊Has audio
Day of the Butterfly	Alice Munro	B1	33	3,755
Dead Men’s Path	Chinua Achebe	B1	36	1,213
Death by Scrabble	Charlie Fish	B1	36	1,265	🔊Has audio
Death in the Woods	Sherwood Anderson	A2+	29	5,183	🔊Has audio
Debbie and Julie	Doris Lessing	B1	31	8,500
Désirée’s Baby	Kate Chopin	B1+	41	2,151
Dharma	Vikram Chandra	B2+	51	10,111
Dog Star	Arthur C. Clarke	B2	50	2,302
Dominoes	Jack Agüeros	B1	34	2,916
Dry September	William Faulkner	B2	44	4,428	🔊Has audio
Dusk	James Salter	A2+	24	1,961
Earthmen Bearing Gifts	Fredric Brown	B1+	37	830
Eleonora	Edgar Allan Poe	C2+	77	2,441	🔊Has audio
Emergency	Denis Johnson	A2+	28	3,608	🔊Has audio
End of the Game	Julio Cortázar	B2+	56	5,018
Eveline	James Joyce	B1	31	1,832	🔊Has audio
Evening Primrose	John Collier	B1	32	3,465
Everyday Use	Alice Walker	A2+	27	3,587	🔊Has audio
Everyone Cried	Lydia Davis	B1+	42	468
Everything That Rises Must Converge	Flannery O’Connor	B1+	40	6,463	🔊Has audio
Farewell to a Ghost	Manoj Das	B2	50	3,123
Fat	Raymond Carver	A2+	24	1,665	🔊Has audio
Father Against Mother	Machado de Assis	B2	44	4,719
Fatso	Etgar Keret	B1+	37	1,076
Filboid Studge	H. H. Munro (Saki)	C2	73	1,035	🔊Has audio
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	A2+	29	12,142	🔊Has audio
For Esmé with Love and Squalor	J. D. Salinger	B1	36	7,977
Futurama!	Chuck Klosterman	B1+	39	1,840
Geraldo No Last Name	Sandra Cisneros	A2	22	345	🔊Has audio
Ghosts	Edwidge Danticat	B2	45	4,910
Gimpel the Fool	Isaac Bashevis Singer	B1	32	5,772	🔊Has audio
Girl	Jamaica Kincaid	C1	59	685	🔊Has audio
God Sees the Truth, But Waits	Leo Tolstoy	B1	32	2,996	🔊Has audio
Greasy Lake	T. C. Boyle	B2+	53	4,109	🔊Has audio
Great Day	David Malouf	B1+	41	17,353
Guests of the Nation	Frank O’Connor	B1	32	4,603
Haircut	Ring Lardner	B1	31	4,811
Half a Day	Naguib Mahfouz	B2	47	1,295
Han’s Crime	Shiga Naoya	B1	31	3,698
Hands	Sherwood Anderson	B2	50	2,353	🔊Has audio
Happy Endings	Margaret Atwood	B1+	38	1,278
Harrison Bergeron	Kurt Vonnegut	B1+	43	2,195	🔊Has audio
He-y, Come On Ou-t!	Shinichi Hoshi	B2	47	1,364
Hearts and Hands	O. Henry	B1+	38	868	🔊Has audio
Heavy-Set	Ray Bradbury	B1	33	3,518
Here We Aren’t, So Quickly	Jonathan Foer	B1+	43	1,906	🔊Has audio
Hermann the Irascible	H. H. Munro (aka Saki)	C2+	80	969
Hills Like White Elephants	Ernest Hemingway	A1+	17	1,592	🔊Has audio
House Taken Over	Julio Cortázar	B2	45	2,124	🔊Has audio
How Headphones Changed the World	Derek Thompson	C1	61	1,269
How Much Land Does a Man Need	Leo Tolstoy	B1	36	6,150	🔊Has audio
How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned his Breakfast	Price Warung (aka William Astley)	C1	60	3,005
How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found	Nicola Twilley	C1+	66	3,060
How to Water the Seeds of Happiness	Thích Nhất Hạnh	B2+	54	1,686
I Am Bigfoot	Ron Carlson	A2+	29	707
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	B2+	51	5,783	🔊Has audio
I Stand Here Ironing	Tillie Olsen	B1	35	3,328	🔊Has audio
Identities	W. D. Valgardson	B2+	55	1,008	🔊Has audio
Idyll	Guy de Maupassant	B2	44	1,635
Immigration Blues	Bienvenido Santos	A2+	25	6,348
In a Grove	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	B1	36	3,440
In the Family	María Elena Llana	C1	57	1,433	🔊Has audio
In the Kindergarten	Ha Jin (aka Jin Xuefei)	B1+	42	3,374
In the Night	Jamaica Kincaid	B2	48	1,752
In the Penal Colony	Franz Kafka	B2	44	11,723	🔊Has audio
In the Withaak’s Shade	Herman Bosman	B1	34	2,178	🔊Has audio
Indian Camp	Ernest Hemingway	A2	23	1,455	🔊Has audio
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	B2	46	8,288	🔊Has audio
Javni	Raj Rao	A2+	28	5,218
Key Item	Isaac Asimov	B1	32	1,045	🔊Has audio
Knock	Fredric Brown	A2+	24	3,719	🔊Has audio
Korea	John McGahern	B1	36	1,926
Lajwanti	Rajinder Singh Bedi	B2+	51	4,498
Lajwanti	Mulk Raj Anand	B1+	39	5,130
Lamb to the Slaughter	Roald Dahl	A2+	28	3,577	🔊Has audio
Landscape with Flatiron	Haruki Murakami	A2+	26	5,606
Last Day at School	Giovanni Mosca	A2+	29	876
Last Evenings on Earth	Roberto Bolano	B1+	41	9,395
Last Night	James Salter	A2+	24	3,249
Last Rung on the Ladder	Stephen King	B1	34	4,807	🔊Has audio
Life	Bessie Head	B2	48	4,590	🔊Has audio
Like the Sun	R. K. Narayan	A2+	28	1,302	🔊Has audio
Looking for a Rain-God	Bessie Head	B2+	53	1,511
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime	Oscar Wilde	B2	49	12,443	🔊Has audio
Love Must Not Be Forgotten	Zhang Jie	B1	34	5,030	🔊Has audio
Luck	Mark Twain	B2+	56	1,775
Man from the South	Roald Dahl	A2+	27	4,050	🔊Has audio
Marigolds	Eugenia Collier	B2+	54	3,787	🔊Has audio
Marjorie Daw	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	B1+	41	7,426	🔊Has audio
Mary Postgate	Rudyard Kipling	B2	44	5,591	🔊Has audio
May Day Eve	Nick Joaquin	B2	49	3,896
Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit)	Terry Gross	B1+	40	1,716
Minutes of Glory	Ngugi wa Thiong’o	B2	44	5,413
Misery	Anton Chekhov	B1	36	2,293	🔊Has audio
Miss Brill	Katherine Mansfield	B1+	41	1,964
Mr. Know All	W. Somerset Maugham	B1	32	2,464
My First Goose	Isaac Babel	B2+	54	1,264
My Jockey	Lucia Berlin	B2	47	368
My Name	Sandra Cisneros	A2+	27	324	🔊Has audio
Neighbour Rosicky	Willa Cather	B1	33	12,945	🔊Has audio
Night Driver	Italo Calvino	C1+	66	2,744	🔊Has audio
Nightfall	Isaac Asimov	B2	44	13,307	🔊Has audio
No Witchcraft for Sale	Doris Lessing	B2+	52	3,146
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet	Andy Greenberg	C2	70	2,052
Odour of Chrysanthemums	D. H. Lawrence	B1+	39	7,595	🔊Has audio
Old Aeson	Arthur Quiller-Couch	C1	58	1,606
Once Upon a Time	Nadine Gordimer	C2	71	2,357
One of These Days	Gabriel García Márquez	B1+	40	909
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts	Shirley Jackson	B1	35	3,792	🔊Has audio
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn	Thomas Wolfe	A2	20	2,003	🔊Has audio
Other People	Neil Gaiman	B1+	37	931	🔊Has audio
Outside	Etgar Keret	B1+	39	555
Oysters	Anton Chekhov	B2	48	1,484	🔊Has audio
Parallel Universes	Etgar Keret	A2+	28	584
Parker’s Back	Flannery O’Connor	B1	33	8,139
Passing Wind	Lydia Davis	B1	34	411
Paste	Henry James	B1	33	5,851	🔊Has audio
Patriotism	Yukio Mishima	C1	59	9,297
Paul’s Case	Willa Cather	C1+	66	8,437	🔊Has audio
Peter Klaus the Goatherd	German Folktale	B1	34	2,179
Poison	Roald Dahl	B1	32	4,311	🔊Has audio
Popular Mechanics	Raymond Carver	A2+	26	489
Powder	Tobias Wolff	A2+	26	1,438
Prey	Richard Matheson	B1+	43	4,621	🔊Has audio
Quiet Town	Jason Gurley	B1+	39	2,389
Rain Frogs	Shiga Naoya	B1+	42	4,129
Rape Fantasies	Margaret Atwood	B1+	41	4,169	🔊Has audio
Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman	Harlan Ellison	B2+	54	4,402
Reunion	John Cheever	A2	22	1,142
Reunion	Arthur C. Clarke	B2+	53	532
Rex Ex Machina	Frederic Max	C1+	63	872	🔊Has audio
Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving	C1+	68	6,135	🔊Has audio
Ripe Figs	Kate Chopin	B1	35	288	🔊Has audio
Rosa	Cynthia Ozick	B2	45	14,594
Rothschild’s Fiddle (Violin)	Anton Chekhov	B2	46	4,174
Ruthless	William C. de Mille	A2+	28	1,027
Saboteur	Ha Jin (aka Jin Xuefei)	B2	44	3,997
Salt	Isaac Babel	C1	60	1,363
Separating	John Updike	B2	46	4,436	🔊Has audio
Shooting an Elephant	George Orwell	B2+	52	3,267	🔊Has audio
Shopping	Joyce Carol Oates	B2	48	4,735
Showdown	Shirley Jackson	A2+	30	2,282
Signs and Symbols	Vladimir Nabokov	B2+	55	2,215
Silent Snow, Secret Snow	Conrad Aiken	B2	48	7,004	🔊Has audio
Silver Water	Amy Bloom	B1+	43	3,565	🔊Has audio
Sin Setsochhata’s Moonlight Ballads	Steven Pearl	B1+	37	2,230
Six Feet of the Country	Nadine Gordimer	B1+	37	4,727	🔊Has audio
Slaughter House	Richard Matheson	C1	57	12,973	🔊Has audio
Slave on the Block	Langston Hughes	A2+	28	2,867	🔊Has audio
Sleeping	Katharine Weber	B1+	40	486
Snow	Ann Beattie	B1+	37	748	🔊Has audio
Snow Child	Angela Carter	B2+	55	478
Snow, Glass, Apples	Neil Gaiman	B2	49	5,035
Solipsist	Fredric Brown	A2+	28	356
Sonny’s Blues	James Baldwin	A2+	29	13,645	🔊Has audio
Spunk	Zora Neale Huston	A2+	29	2,225
Squeaker’s Mate	Barbara Baynton	B2+	55	5,731	🔊Has audio
Strawberry Spring	Stephen King	B2	44	3,741	🔊Has audio
Sweat	Zora Neale Hurston	B1	32	4,745
Sweet Potato Pie	Eugenia Collier	B2	44	3,912	🔊Has audio
Teenage Wasteland	Anne Tyler	A2+	29	3,853	🔊Has audio
Tell Them Not to Kill Me	Juan Rulfo	A2+	24	2,551
Testimonial	Edwidge Danticat	B1	32	2,268
That Evening Sun Go Down	William Faulkner	A2	20	6,189
The 13-Carat Diamond	Khin Mya	B1+	40	3,620
The American Embassy	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	B1+	41	4,362
The Answer is No	Naguib Mahfouz	B1+	37	1,193
The Ant and The Grasshopper	W. Somerset Maugham	B1+	43	1,531	🔊Has audio
The Artist	Rabindranath Tagore	B2+	56	2,053
The Autopsy (Dissection)	Georg Heym	B2	50	657
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones	Stephen Leacock	B1+	37	916	🔊Has audio
The Baby	Donald Barthelme	B1+	38	799
The Balloon	Donald Barthelme	C2+	83	1,762
The Beast in the Jungle	Henry James	B2	44	18,776	🔊Has audio
The Bet	Anton Chekhov	B2+	56	2,844	🔊Has audio
The Biology of Attraction	Helen E. Fisher	C1	62	4,270
The Black Cat	Edgar Allan Poe	C1+	69	3,923	🔊Has audio
The Blue Jar	Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dineson)	B1+	41	1,035	🔊Has audio
The Boarded Window	Ambrose Bierce	C1+	65	1,828	🔊Has audio
The Boogeyman	Stephen King	A2+	23	4,745	🔊Has audio
The Book of Sand	Jorge Luis Borges	B1+	41	1,583	🔊Has audio
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	Stephen Crane	B2+	52	4,366	🔊Has audio
The Bridegroom	Nadine Gordimer	B2+	52	3,694
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God	Etgar Keret	B2+	52	1,401
The Butler	Roald Dahl	A2+	29	1,207
The Canterville Ghost	Oscar Wilde	C1+	67	11,305	🔊Has audio
The Censors	Luisa Valenzuela	B2+	54	1,089	🔊Has audio
The Chaser	John Collier	A2+	28	1,057	🔊Has audio
The Chef	Andy Weir	A2	22	1,426
The Chosen Vessel	Barbara Baynton	B2	50	2,762	🔊Has audio
The Coffee-house of Surat	Leo Tolstoy	B2	50	2,797
The Company of Wolves	Angela Carter	C1	59	4,059
The Cone	H. G. Wells	B2+	51	4,271	🔊Has audio
The Continuity of Parks	Julio Cortázar	C1	61	622
The Cow of the Barricades	Raja Rao	B2+	52	2,178
The Cranes	Peter Meinke	A2+	28	897
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	F. Scott Fitzgerald	B2	47	9,245	🔊Has audio
The Day the Dancers Came	Bienvenido Santos	B1+	41	5,656
The Demon Lover	Elizabeth Bowen	B1+	41	2,802	🔊Has audio
The Devil	Guy de Maupassant	B2	45	2,696
The Devoted Son	Anita Desai	C1+	64	4,025
The Dinner Party	Mona Gardner	B2	45	472
The Direction of the Road	Ursula Le Guin	B2+	52	2,639
The Disk	Jorge Borges	A2+	26	866
The Distance of the Moon	Italo Calvino	C1+	67	5,637	🔊Has audio
The Distant Past	William Trevor	C1	57	3,373	🔊Has audio
The District Doctor	Ivan Turgenev	B1	31	4,331	🔊Has audio
The Dog of Tithwal	Saadat Hasan Manto	B1+	40	1,980
The Doll’s House	Katherine Mansfield	B1	33	2,776
The Door in the Wall	H. G. Wells	B1+	40	6,916	🔊Has audio
The Drover’s Wife	Henry Lawson	B2	47	3,219	🔊Has audio
The Duchess and the Jeweller	Virginia Woolf	B2	48	2,526	🔊Has audio
The Egg	Andy Weir	A2+	25	997	🔊Has audio
The Egg	Sherwood Anderson	B1	36	4,601	🔊Has audio
The End of Something	Ernest Hemingway	B1	34	1,427	🔊Has audio
The Extravagant Behavior of the Naked Woman	Josefina Estrada	C1	57	488
The Eyes Have It	Philip Dick	B1	36	1,078	🔊Has audio
The Faith Cure Man	Paul Dunbar	A2+	30	1,619	🔊Has audio
The Falling Girl	Dino Buzzatti	B2	45	1,562
The Far and the Near	Thomas Wolfe	C1+	66	1,436	🔊Has audio
The Fence	Hamsad Rangkuti	A2+	24	2,589
The First Law	Isaac Asimov	B1+	38	1,072	🔊Has audio
The First Year of My Life	Muriel Spark	B2	47	2,428	🔊Has audio
The Flowers	Alice Walker	B2+	54	562	🔊Has audio
The Fly	Katherine Mansfield	B1+	38	2,187
The Garden of Forking Paths	Jorge Borges	B2+	56	4,379
The Garden Party	Katherine Mansfield	A2+	26	5,332	🔊Has audio
The Ghost upon the Rail	John Lang	B2	50	8,166
The Gift of the Magi	O. Henry	B1+	39	2,070	🔊Has audio
The Gold of Tomás Vargas	Isabel Allende	C1	62	4,302
The Golden Honeymoon	Ring Lardner	B1+	38	6,591	🔊Has audio
The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind	Ray Bradbury	B2	48	1,685	🔊Has audio
The Gradual Extinction of Softness	Chantha Nguon	B2	50	3,947
The Green Door	O. Henry	B2+	56	2,745	🔊Has audio
The Green Leaves	Grace Ogot	B1	32	3,096
The Guest	Albert Camus	B1+	42	5,110
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	Gabriel García Márquez	C1+	69	2,461	🔊Has audio
The Hell Screen	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	C1	57	9,551	🔊Has audio
The Hit Man	T.C. Boyle	B2	47	1,176
The Hospice	Robert Aikman	B1+	37	12,844
The House On Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	A2+	25	626	🔊Has audio
The House Opposite	R. K. Narayan	C1	62	1,567
The Hungry Stones	Rabindranath Tagore	C1	59	4,184
The Imitation of the Rose	Clarice Lispector	B2+	54	6,115
The Interlopers	H. H. Munro (aka Saki)	B2+	56	2,140	🔊Has audio
The Jay	Yasunari Kawabata	B1	31	1,612
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Katherine Porter	B1	31	3,927	🔊Has audio
The Jolly Corner	Henry James	C2	72	14,362	🔊Has audio
The Judgement	Franz Kafka	B1+	37	4,488	🔊Has audio
The Killers	Ernest Hemingway	A1+	17	2,960	🔊Has audio
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!	Mary Coleridge	B1	33	2,764	🔊Has audio
The King of Jazz	Donald Barthelme	A2+	24	1,215
The Lady With the Dog	Anton Chekhov	B2	46	6,663
The Landlady	Roald Dahl	A2+	29	3,523	🔊Has audio
The Last Class (Lesson)	Alphonse Daudet	B1	34	1,659
The Last Leaf	O. Henry	B1+	37	2,289	🔊Has audio
The Last Night of the World	Ray Bradbury	A2	23	1,261	🔊Has audio
The Last Question	Isaac Asimov	B1+	39	4,429	🔊Has audio
The Last Unicorns	Edward Hoch	A2+	29	666
The Laugher	Heinrich Böll	C1+	68	875	🔊Has audio
The Laughing Man	J. D. Salinger	B2+	55	5,521
The Law of Life	Jack London	B2	48	2,802	🔊Has audio
The Leap	Louise Erdrich	C1	61	2,883	🔊Has audio
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	C2+	79	11,781	🔊Has audio
The Library of Babel	Jorge Borges	C2	75	2,929
The Loaded Dog	Henry Lawson	C1	61	2,999	🔊Has audio
The Long-Distance Runner	Grace Paley	A2+	24	11,468
The Looking-Glass	Anton Chekhov	B2	44	1,524
The Lost Child	Mulk Raj Anand	C1	57	1,986
The Lottery	Shirley Jackson	B1	33	3,377	🔊Has audio
The Love of My Life	T. C. Boyle	B2+	51	7,473
The Machine Stops	E. M. Forster	B2+	51	12,254	🔊Has audio
The Machine That Won the War	Isaac Asimov	B1+	41	1,995
The Magic Barrel	Bernard Malamud	B2	44	6,266
The Magic Shop	H. G. Wells	B2	48	3,988	🔊Has audio
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	Richard Wright	A2+	25	4,438	🔊Has audio
The Million Pound Bank Note	Mark Twain	B1+	37	8,289	🔊Has audio
The Minister’s Black Veil	Nathaniel Hawthorne	C1+	68	5,155	🔊Has audio
The Minority Report	Philip Dick	B2	48	13,783
The Monkey’s Paw	W. W. Jacobs	B2	46	3,971	🔊Has audio
The Moonlit Road	Ambrose Bierce	C1	60	3,597	🔊Has audio
The Most Dangerous Game	Richard Connell	B2	44	8,007	🔊Has audio
The Mouse	H. H. Munro (Saki)	C2	72	1,482
The Necklace	Guy de Maupassant	B2	47	2,847	🔊Has audio
The New Food	Stephen Leacock	B2+	53	394
The News from Ireland	William Trevor	B2	47	11,681
The Nose	Nikolai Gogol	B2	45	9,032	🔊Has audio
The Offshore Pirate	F. Scott Fitzgerald	B2	49	10,660	🔊Has audio
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas	Ursula Le Guin	B2+	55	2,813
The Open Boat	Stephen Crane	B2+	51	9,352	🔊Has audio
The Open Window	H. H. Munro (aka Saki)	B2+	55	1,211	🔊Has audio
The Other	Jorge Borges	B1	32	2,647
The Other Wife / Woman	Colette	A2+	29	1,034
The Outsider	H. P. Lovecraft	C2	75	2,595	🔊Has audio
The Oval Portrait	Edgar Allan Poe	C1+	70	1,290	🔊Has audio
The Overcoat (The Cloak)	Nikolai Gogol	C1+	64	12,500	🔊Has audio
The Pale Man	Julius Long	B2	47	2,319	🔊Has audio
The Paper Menagerie	Ken Liu	B1	32	4,946	🔊Has audio
The Pedestrian	Ray Bradbury	B1+	40	1,444
The Possibility of Evil	Shirley Jackson	B1+	40	4,028	🔊Has audio
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses	Bessie Head	B1+	41	2,030
The Prussian Officer	D. H. Lawrence	B2+	53	9,047	🔊Has audio
The Purloined Letter	Edgar Allan Poe	C1+	65	6,381	🔊Has audio
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin	B2	45	9,476
The Return	Roberto Bolaño	C1	58	5,494
The Return	Fernando Sorrentino	B2+	54	1,853
The Rocking-Horse Winner	D. H. Lawrence	A2+	25	5,479	🔊Has audio
The Romance of a Busy Broker	O. Henry	B2+	52	1,384	🔊Has audio
The Sacrificial Egg	Chinua Achebe	B1	36	1,302
The Scarlet Ibis	James Hurst	B2	47	4,979	🔊Has audio
The School	Donald Barthelme	B1	32	1,208
The Sea of Lost Time	Gabriel García Márquez	A2+	28	6,166
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	James Thurber	B1	30	2,058	🔊Has audio
The Secret Sharer	Joseph Conrad	B2	47	16,697	🔊Has audio
The Shadow in the Rose Garden	D. H. Lawrence	B1	35	4,808
The Shawl	Cynthia Ozick	B2+	53	2,020	🔊Has audio
The Shroud	Premchand	B1+	37	2,999
The Signal-man	Charles Dickens	B1+	42	5,098	🔊Has audio
The Sniper	Liam O’Flaherty	B2	46	1,569	🔊Has audio
The Son from America	Isaac Bashevis Singer	B1+	37	2,362	🔊Has audio
The Spider Thread	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	B2+	54	1,142
The Spinoza of Market Street	Isaac Bashevis Singer	B2+	55	6,782
The Star	H. G. Wells	C1	64	4,454	🔊Has audio
The Star	Arthur C. Clarke	C1	61	2,475	🔊Has audio
The Storm	Kate Chopin	B2+	53	1,889	🔊Has audio
The Story of an Hour	Kate Chopin	B2+	51	1,011	🔊Has audio
The Story of the Bad Little Boy	Mark Twain	B2+	54	1,355	🔊Has audio
The Story of the Good Little Boy	Mark Twain	B2	49	1,862	🔊Has audio
The Storyteller	H. H. Munro (aka Saki)	B2	49	1,962
The Summer Solstice	Nick Joaquin	B2	50	4,800
The Swimmer	John Cheever	B2+	50	4,937	🔊Has audio
The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	B2	49	2,144	🔊Has audio
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien	B2+	54	6,980	🔊Has audio
The Three Questions	Leo Tolstoy	B1+	43	1,564	🔊Has audio
The Three-Day Blow	Ernest Hemingway	A2	19	3,129
The Totara Tree	Roderick Finlayson	B2	45	2,039
The Tractor and the Corn Goddess	Mulk Raj Anand	B2	49	2,430
The Treasure in the Forest	H. G. Wells	B2+	52	2,947
The Vane Sisters	Vladimir Nabokov	C2+	78	5,373	🔊Has audio
The Veldt	Ray Bradbury	A2+	28	4,631	🔊Has audio
The Verb to Kill	Luisa Valenzuela	B1+	37	1,221
The Verger	W. Somerset Maugham	B1+	38	2,817
The Visitor	Lydia Davis	B1+	38	344
The Wall	Jean-Paul Sartre	B1	30	7,328
The War Prayer	Mark Twain	C2	73	1,282	🔊Has audio
The Washerwoman’s Children	Witi Ihimaera	B1+	37	4,950
The Wave	Liam O’Flaherty	B2	49	1,019
The Way Up to Heaven	Roald Dahl	A2+	30	4,856	🔊Has audio
The Werewolf	Angela Carter	B2+	55	825
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs	Harlan Ellison	B2+	53	6,928
The White Horses of Vienna	Kay Boyle	B1+	42	6,215
The Wife’s Story	Ursula Le Guin	B1	32	1,778
The Wives of the Dead	Nathaniel Hawthorne	C1+	66	2,366
The Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	B1	34	6,184
The Young Man Who Flew Past	Arkady Averchenko	C1+	64	1,254
There Is A Reaper	Charles de Vet	B1+	41	1,650	🔊Has audio
There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella	Fernando Sorrentino	B1	35	1,112
They're Made Out Of Meat	Terry Bisson	A2+	26	813
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen	Tadeusz Borowski	B2	47	6,461
Thongproi (the Rich Girl)	Kukrit Pramoj	C1	59	3,665
Those Who Don’t	Sandra Cisneros	A2+	28	133	🔊Has audio
Three Elephant Power	A. B. Paterson	B1+	38	2,764
To Build a Fire	Jack London	B2+	55	7,101	🔊Has audio
Toba Tek Singh	Saadat Hasan Manto	B1+	43	2,580
Tobermory	H. H. Munro (aka Saki)	C1+	66	2,722	🔊Has audio
Toy Shop	Harry Harrison	B1+	40	1,896	🔊Has audio
Twenty Minutes	James Salter	A2+	26	2,616
Under the Banyan Tree	R. K. Narayan	B1+	42	2,156
Unto Dust	Herman Bosman	B1+	42	1,766
Up in Michigan	Ernest Hemingway	A2+	28	1,943	🔊Has audio
Vision out of the Corner of One Eye	Luisa Valenzuela	B1+	39	267
Voodoo	Fredric Brown	B1	31	356
Walker Brothers Cowboy	Alice Munro	B1+	39	6,145
War	Luigi Pirandello	B2	47	1,549	🔊Has audio
We Should Be Sober About the Risk of Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine	John Carl Baker	C2	70	1,733
What Men Live By	Leo Tolstoy	A2+	29	8,034
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	Raymond Carver	A2	23	4,717
When Darkness Falls	Ruskin Bond	B2+	50	4,943
When the Mice Failed to Arrive	Gerald Murnane	B2+	53	10,433
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	Joyce Carol Oates	B1	31	6,900	🔊Has audio
Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?	Tim O’Brien	B1+	40	2,869	🔊Has audio
Where is Here?	Joyce Carol Oates	B2+	52	3,471	🔊Has audio
Who Decides What Words Mean	Lane Greene	B2+	53	3,051
Why Don’t You Dance?	Raymond Carver	A2+	25	1,632	🔊Has audio
Will We Ever… Understand Why Music Makes Us Feel Good?	Philip Ball	C2	73	1,214
Winter Dreams	F. Scott Fitzgerald	B2	46	8,484	🔊Has audio
With All Flags Flying	Anne Tyler	B1+	37	3,982
Woman Hollering Creek	Sandra Cisneros	B1	31	4,339
Yellow Moepels	Herman Bosman	A2+	29	1,784
Yesterday was Beautiful	Roald Dahl	A2	22	1,699	🔊Has audio
Young Archimedes	Aldous Huxley	B2+	54	13,408
Young Goodman Brown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	C1+	64	5,242
Youth	Isaac Asimov	A2+	28	10,063	🔊Has audio
Youth: A Narrative	Joseph Conrad	B2	50	13,296	🔊Has audio