Top 10 Short Stories I Wish My English Teacher Had Made Me Read
By Joel Fishbane
10. “The Colonel Say I Love You” by Sergei Dovlatov
9. “Sins of the Third Age” by Nadine Gordimer
8. “Familiar Usage in Leningrad” by Tom Cole
7. “Novostroika” by Maria Reva
6. “Dave Cooks the Turkey” by Stuart McLean
5. “No One Writes to the Colonel” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
3. “The Woman from Hamburg” by Hannah Krall
2. “The Orphaned Swimming Pool” by John Updike
1. “Dog Heaven” by Stephanie Vaughn