Compiled by Desirée Henderson (University of Texas Arlington) based on recommendations from members of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) listserve
Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story (TED Talk)
Alexie, Flight Patterns” and “Search Engine” in Ten Little Indians; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Allison, Bastard out of Carolina
Atwood, “Happy Endings”; The Handmaid’s Tale
Banks, “Lobster Night”Boyle, “The White Horses of Vienna”
Byatt, Possession
Cather, My Antonia
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman
Chopin, “La Belle Zoraide”; “Elizabeth Stock’s One Story”; “Miss Witherwell’s Mistake”
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Danticat, “Night Women”; The Dew Breaker
Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills”
Dinesen, “The Blank Page”
Erdrich, Tracks
Fenimore Woolson, “Miss Grief”; “Lady of Little Fishing”
Faulkner, Absalom, Absolom
Fitzgerald, Gatsby
Glancy Designs of the Night Sky
Hooper, Homesick Songs
Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Mules & Men
King (Grace), intro to “Balcony Stories”
King, The Truth About Stories
Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Krauss, The History of Love
LeGuin, “The Shobies’ Story”
Moore, “How to Become a Writer”
Morrison, A Mercy
O’Brien, “On the Rainy River”; The Things They Carried
Paley, “A Conversation with My Father”; “The Story Hearer”; “Debts”
Russo, Trajectory
Shelley, Frankenstein
Silko, Storyteller (and title story “Storyteller” in the collection)
Spofford, “The Amber Gods”; “Her Story”
Tan, Joy Luck Club; The Valley of Amazement
Tokarczuk, Flights
Twain, “A True Story”
Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller
Wilkins Freeman, “The Lost Ghost”
Wilson, The Piano Lesson
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