Donald Barthelme, The Emerald (60 Stories)
Edwidge Danticat, Seven (The Dew Breaker)
Alice Elliott Dark, In the Gloaming
Andre Dubus, Killings (Collected Stories)
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily (Collected Stories)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Collected Stories)
Barry Hannah, A Creature from the Bay St. Louis (High Lonesome)
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants (Collected Stories)
William Gay, The Paperhanger (I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down)
Denis Johnson, Emergency Room (Jesus' Son)
Thom Jones, I Want to Live! (The Pugilist at Rest)
Kyle Minor, goodbye Hills, hello night (In the Devil's Territory)
Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here (Birds of America)
Flannery O'Connor, The Artifical Nigger (Collected Stories)
Donald Ray Pollock, Dynamite Hole (Knockemstiff)
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Collected Stories)
George Saunders, Sea Oak (Pastoralia)
Irwin Shaw, The Girls in their Summer Dresses
Melanie Rae Thon, Girls in the Grass
Toure, A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love (The Portable Promised Land)
John Updike, Natural Color (Licks of Love)
Robert Penn Warren, Blackberry Winter (Selected Stories)
Tobias Wolff, Powder (Back in the World)