The Most Anthologized Short Stories of All Time. Anthologies are strange beasts. They are sometimes ludicrous, often ugly, and almost uniformly tyrannical. They have stories sticking out in odd places they have holes in their sides. Those that claim to represent the state of short fiction at any given time are typically lying, to whatever extent mute volumes of literature can lie. Tonto-tonto-34489051-382-500.jpg' alt='Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven The Fun House' title='Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven The Fun House' />But we forgive them, because its nearly impossible to fit a nebulous state of literature, with all its complexities of form, subject, race, class, gender, and nepotism oh the nepotism into a portable object made of paper. Yes, we forgive them, and we read them, because pretty much everyone who is a consumer of short stories or who has taken literature classes has in their time discovered at least one great story in at least one anthology. I myself first read my favorite short story of all time call it the FSSOAT in an anthology assigned in a college creative writing class. That short story is The School, FYI. The anthology was Youve Got to Read This. And we have many chances to do this kind of discovery, because every few years, there seems to be a new big deal short fiction anthology hitting the shelves. So perhaps its not unsurprising that I see plenty of short stories, albeit primarily classics, designated as among the most anthologized short stories of all time. Exclamation, exclamation But recently, in the wake of Lottery Day and in the midst of our collective summer reading fugue state, I wondered which stories are actually most anthologizedTo figure it out, I looked at 2. Puma Race Car Driver Shoes here. I surveyed at the bottom of the page. I only considered anthologies that were general interestno thematic anthologies My Mistresss Sparrow Is Dead Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, etc. SF, Fantasy, Romance, War, etc. I also excluded the yearly Best American anthologies but included the more exhaustive 1. Years of the Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and any other temporal, prize or journal based collections i. O. Henry Prize Stories 2. Esquires Big Book of Fiction. Anthologies collecting both American and International stories were included, but other geographical organizations were not. This admittedly makes the list skew American, but this was fairly unavoidable. I made no distinction between stories by the same author published under different names i. Samuel Clemens are here listed in the Mark Twain section, and I only noted authors with at least two stories anthologized among the twenty. Of course there are more anthologies than these twenty though I hope no high profile ones and in addition to nationality, the data is also skewed by publication dates which also couldnt be avoided, but I think the below still gives a good picture of the most collected short stories of the past 3. Now, whether those are the most read short stories of the past 3. After collecting the data, I made lists of the most anthologized stories and the most anthologized authors, as well as the authors inspiring the least consensus that is, authors with no single story repeated across the 2. Its worth considering the data in all four contextsfor instance, as youll see below, Tim OBriens The Things They Carried is the most anthologized story by a relatively large margin, but for topping the heap in that regard, hes closer to the middle of the list of most anthologized authors. Thats because although The Things They Carried appears in a full half of the books surveyed, he only has two others thrown inwhereas Raymond Carver, who tops the list for most anthologized author, has seven hits for Cathedral, two for Are These Actual Miles and then six more stories divided between the books. But past that, Ill let you explore for yourself. So without further ado Article continues after advertisement. The Most Anthologized Stories 1. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven study guide contains a biography of Sherman Alexie, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie. The characters and stories in the book. Tim OBrien, The Things They Carried8 inclusions James Baldwin, Sonnys BluesJamaica Kincaid, Girl7 inclusions Raymond Carver, Cathedral6 inclusions Flannery OConnor, A Good Man Is Hard to FindJoyce Carol Oates, Where are you going, where have you been5 inclusions Donald Barthelme, The SchoolCharlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow WallpaperShirley Jackson, The LotteryBharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief4 inclusions John Cheever, The Country HusbandRichard Ford, CommunistNathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman BrownErnest Hemingway, Hills Like White ElephantsDenis Johnson, EmergencyUrsula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasHerman Melville, Bartleby, the ScrivenerRobert Stone, HelpingSusan Sontag, The Way We Live NowThe Most Anthologized Authors 1. Raymond Carver. 14 inclusions Joyce Carol Oates. John Updike. 13 inclusions Flannery OConnor. Richard Ford. Tim OBrien. John Cheever. Tobias Wolff. Donald Barthelme. Java Se 6 1 6 0 51 Download Adobe. James Baldwin. Ann Beattie. William Faulkner. Ernest Hemingway. James Joyce. Jamaica Kincaid. Edgar Allan Poe. Eudora Weltyhe Authors Inspiring the Least Consensus the authors with the most unique storiesand zero repeated storiesacross the 2. Sherman Alexie. Richard Bausch. Sherwood Anderson. Louise Erdrich. Jayne Anne Phillips. Joy Williams. 4 unique stories Stanley Elkin. Henry James. Thom Jones. Yasunari Kawabata. Guy de Maupassant. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Free sherman alexie papers, essays, and research papers. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. Understand more, faster. FreeMark Twain. Edith Wharton. John Edgar Wideman. E. L. Doctorow. Nathan Englander. Gish Jen. Charles Johnson. D. H. Lawrence. David Leavitt. William Maxwell. David Means. Steven Millhauser. Frank OConnor. Dorothy Parker. Jean Stafford. Peter Taylor. David Foster Wallace. E. B. White. Virginia Woolfne Hit Wonders the authors with the most reprints of a single story across the 2. Bharati Mukherjee The Management of GriefShirley Jackson The LotteryCharlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper3 inclusions Andrea Barrett The Littoral ZonePaul Bowles A Distant EpisodeRon Hansen WickednessZZ Packer Brownieshe Full List Chinua Achebe, The Sacrificial Egg x 2. Chinua Achebe, Dead Mens PathAlice Adams, Roses, Rhododendron x 2. Conrad Aiken, Silent Snow, Secret Snow x 2. James Agee, A Mothers Tale x 2. Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will RedeemSherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the WorldSherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in HeavenSherman Alexie, Do You Know Where I AmSherman Alexie, This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, ArizonaSherman Alexie, Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. Dorothy Allison, River of Names x 2. Dorothy Allison, Jason Who Will Be FamousSherwood Anderson, Want to Know WhySherwood Anderson, BrothersSherwood Anderson, Death in the WoodsSherwood Anderson, The Strength of GodSherwood Anderson, The Other WomanMargaret Atwood, Death by LandscapeMargaret Atwood, Wilderness TipsMargaret Atwood, Hair JewelleryMargaret Atwood, Happy Endings x 3. James Baldwin, Sonnys Blues x 8. James Baldwin, Going to Meet the ManToni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love x 2. Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson x 3. Russell Banks, The Child Screams and Looks Back At You x 2. Russell Banks, My Mothers Memoirs, My Fathers Lie, and Other True StoriesRussell Banks, Sarah Cole A Type of Love StoryRussell Banks, Lobster NightAndrea Barrett, The Littoral Zone x 3.