Here are all the stories, listed from the shortest to the longest. The first numbers are the average number of minutes it will take to read the stories silently and aloud. Word counts are rounded to the nearest 10.
For example: It will take 3 minutes to read Oshidori silently at an average reading speed, and 5 minutes to read it aloud.
- 3/5: "Oshidori (The Mandarin Ducks)" by Lafcadio Hearne (590 words)
- 6/9: "The Open Window" by Saki (1,210 words)
- 7/11: "Susanna and the Elders" from The Bible (1,450 words)
- 7/11: "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway (1,460 words)
- 8/12: "The Pardoner's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer (1,620 words)
- 9/14: "Childe Rowland" by Joseph Jacobs (1,840 words)
- 10/15: "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen (1,870 words)
- 9/14: "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov (1,870 words)
- 10/15: "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin (1,900 words)
- 10/16: "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browning (2,080 words)
- 11/17: "Landing in Luck" by William Faulkner (2,180 words)
- 12/18: "Araby" by James Joyce (2,330 words)
- 12/18: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (2,345 words)
- 13/19: "The Man who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days" from The 1,001 Nights (2,530 words)
- 13/20: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (2,570 words)
- 13/20: "The Three Hermits" by Leo Tolstoy (2,610 words)
- 14/21: "The Lady or the Tiger?" by by Frank R. Stockton (2,700 words)
- 14/22: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (2,850 words)
- 16/25: "Iron Hans" from Grimm's Fairy Tales (3,210 words)
- 17/27: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde (3,470 words)
- 18/27: "The Wooing of Olwen" from The Mabinogion (3,530 words)
- 20/29: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (3,760 words)
- 20/30: "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (3,940 words)
- 20/31: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte (4,030 words)
- 21/33: "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett (4,260 words)
- 22/33: "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane (4,350 words)
- 22/34: "Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach" by Yei Theodora Ozaki (4,400 words)
- 23/36: "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry (4,650 words)
- 25/38: "The Soul of the Regiment" by Talbot Mundy (5,000 words)
- 26/40: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (5,240 words)
- 27/41: "Acoma" from Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (5,310 words)
- 27/41: "The Penance of Magdalena" by J. Smeaton Chase (5,380 words)
- 28/43: "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence (5,580 words)
- 30/46: "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling (5,920 words)
- 31/47: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6,140 words)
- 34/53: "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving (6,890 words)
- 35/53: "The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells (6,920 words)
- 40/61: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James (7,990 words)
- 44/68: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (8,790 words)
- 49/76: "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle (9,820 words)
- 72/111: "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville (14,460 words)
- 110/169: "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (22,010 words)
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