Contents
- Short Stories from the New Yorker: 1925–1940
- 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker: 1940–1950
- Short Stories from the New Yorker: 1950–1960
- A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925–2025
Short Stories from the New Yorker: 1925–1940
Published: 1940
This was the New Yorker's first published collection of short fiction, collecting the best stories from the magazine's first 15 years, 1925-1940.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Incident on a Street Corner | Albert Maltz |
| The Test | Angelica Gibbs |
| A Letter From the Bronx | Arthur Kober |
| Tourist Home | Benedict Thielen |
| The Knife | Brendan Gill |
| I Am Waiting | Christopher Isherwood |
| A Matter of Pride | Christopher La Farge |
| Love In Brooklyn | Daniel Fuchs |
| Such a Pretty Day | Dawn Powell |
| Fish Story | Donald Moffatt |
| Arrangement In Black and White | Dorothy Parker |
| Soldiers of the Republic | Dorothy Parker |
| The Getaway | Dorothy Thomas |
| The Door | E. B. White |
| The Great Manta | Edwin Corle |
| My Sister Frances | Emily Hahn |
| A Small Day | Erskine Caldwell |
| Man and Woman | Erskine Caldwell |
| The Apostate | George Milburn |
| Main Currents of American Thought | Irwin Shaw |
| Sailor Off the Bremen | Irwin Shaw |
| The Girls In Their Summer Dresses | Irwin Shaw |
| Honors and Awards | James Reid Parker |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| Venetian Perspective | Janet Flanner |
| The Explorers | Jerome Weidman |
| Chutzbah | Jerome Wiedman |
| Love in the Snow | Joel Sayre |
| The Happiest Days | John Cheever |
| Wet Saturday | John Collier |
| In Honor of Their Daughter | John Mosher |
| Are We Leaving Tomorrow? | John O'Hara |
| Do You Like It Here? | John O'Hara |
| Over the River and Through the Wood | John O'Hara |
| Goodbye, Shirley Temple | Joseph Mitchell |
| Black Boy | Kay Boyle |
| Kroy Wen | Kay Boyle |
| The Three Veterans | Leane Zugsmith |
| HYMAN KAPLA*N, Samaritan | Leonard Q. Ross |
| Conversation Piece | Louise Bogan |
| Barmecide's Feast | Marc Connelly |
| The Pelican's Shadow | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Portrait of Ladies | Mark Schorer |
| Pastoral at Mr. Piper's | Mollie Panter-Downes |
| All the Years of Her Life | Morley Callaghan |
| Midsummer | Nancy Hale |
| The Great-Grandmother | Nancy Hale |
| The Works | Nathan Asch |
| Prelude to Reunion | Oliver La Farge |
| Parochial School | Paul Horgan |
| I've Got An Anchor On My Chest | R. H. Newman |
| The Nice Judge Trowbridge | Richard Lockridge |
| A Different World | Robert M. Coates |
| The Fury | Robert M. Coates |
| The Net | Robert M. Coates |
| A Toast to Captain Jerk | Russell Maloney |
| Home Atmosphere | Sally Benson |
| Little Woman | Sally Benson |
| Profession: Housewife | Sally Benson |
| Nice Girl | Sherwood Anderson |
| Ping-Pong | St. Clair McKelway |
| Mr. Palmer's Party | Tess Slesinger |
| Only the Dead Know Brooklyn | Thomas Wolfe |
| The Old Lady | Thyra Samter Winslow |
| Houseparty | Walter Bernstein |
| Accident Near Charlottesburg | William A. Krauss |
| Homecoming | William Maxwell |
| The Courtship of Milton Barker | Wolcott Gibbs |
55 Short Stories From The New Yorker: 1940-1950
Published: 1949
A twenty-fifth anniversary volume of stories that appeared in the magazine, covering the years 1940-1950.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Run, Run, Run, Run | A. J. Liebling |
| Party at the Williamsons’ | Astrid Peters |
| Pigeons en Casserole | Bessie Breuer |
| Truth and Consequences | Brendan Gill |
| The Jockey | Carson McCullers |
| Her Bed Is India | Christine Weston |
| Mary Mulcahy | Christopher La Farge |
| A Clean, Quiet House | Daniel Fuchs |
| The Second Tree from the Corner | E. B. White |
| The Four Freedoms | Edward Newhouse |
| The Nightingales Sing | Elizabeth Parsons |
| The Baby-Amah | Emily Hahn |
| The Falling Leaves | Frances Gray Patton |
| My Da | Frank O’Connor |
| The Middle Drawer | Hortense Calisher |
| Act of Faith | Irwin Shaw |
| Under Gemini | Isabel Bolton |
| A Perfect Day for Bananafish | J. D. Salinger |
| Village Incident | James A. Maxwell |
| The Judgment of Paris | James Reid Parker |
| The Catbird Seat | James Thurber |
| Children Are Bored on Sunday | Jean Stafford |
| Monsoon | Jerome Weidman |
| The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner | Jessamyn West |
| Content with the Station | John Andrew Rice |
| The Enormous Radio | John Cheever |
| De Mortuis… | John Collier |
| Man Here Keeps Getting Arrested All the Time | John McNulty |
| The Decision | John O’Hara |
| The Bummers | John Powell |
| Defeat | Kay Boyle |
| The Ballet Visits the Splendide’s Magician | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| Black Secret | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Continued Humid | Mark Schorer |
| Yonder Peasant, Who Is He? | Mary McCarthy |
| Goodbye, My Love | Mollie Panter‑Downes |
| Between the Dark and the Daylight | Nancy Hale |
| The Evolution of Knowledge | Niccolò Tucci |
| Mr. Skidmore’s Gift | Oliver La Farge |
| Porte‑Cochère | Peter Taylor |
| The Dilemma of Catherine Fuchsias | Rhys Davies |
| Then We’ll Set It Right | Robert Gorham Davis |
| A Winter in the Country | Robert M. Coates |
| A Short Wait Between Trains | Robert McLaughlin |
| A Killing | Roger Angell |
| Inflexible Logic | Russell Maloney |
| The Improvement in Mr. Gaynor’s Technique | S. N. Behrman |
| Lady with a Lamp | Sally Benson |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| A View of Exmoor | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Down in the Reeds by the River | Victoria Lincoln |
| Colette | Vladimir Nabokov |
| The Pleasures of Travel | Wendell Wilcox |
| The Patterns of Love | William Maxwell |
| Song at Twilight | Wolcott Gibbs |
Short Stories from The New Yorker: 1950–1960
Published: 1960
This is a collection of forty-seven stories that first appeared in The New Yorker during the decade beginning in 1950, celebrating the magazine's 35th anniversary.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| More Friend Than Lodger | Angus Wilson |
| The Stream | Arturo Vivante |
| The White Wild Bronco | Benedict Kiely |
| The Bell of Charity | Calvin Kentfield |
| The Golden West | Daniel Fuchs |
| I Live on Your Visits | Dorothy Parker |
| Elegant Economy | Edith Templeton |
| In the Village | Elizabeth Bishop |
| The Classless Society | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| First Dark | Elizabeth Spencer |
| The Rose, the Mauve, the White | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Kin | Eudora Welty |
| The Man of the World | Frank O'Connor |
| Sentimental Education | Harold Brodkey |
| Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters | J. D. Salinger |
| Death of a Favorite | J. F. Powers |
| In the Zoo | Jean Stafford |
| The Country Husband | John Cheever |
| The Happiest I've Been | John Updike |
| Can't You Get Me Out of Here? | Julia Strachey |
| The Rose Garden | Maeve Brennan |
| In a Café | Mary Lavin |
| Ask Me No Questions | Mary McCarthy |
| Bernadette | Mavis Gallant |
| Six Feet of the Country | Nadine Gordimer |
| The Bubble | Nancy Hale |
| Chopin | Natacha Stewart |
| Terror and Grief | Niccolò Tucci |
| Wedding at Rociada | Oliver La Farge |
| The Parson | Penelope Mortimer |
| What You Hear From 'em? | Peter Taylor |
| Defender of the Faith | Philip Roth |
| The Interview | R. Prawer Jhabvala |
| The Code | Richard T. Gill |
| A Game of Catch | Richard Wilbur |
| The Champion of the World | Roald Dahl |
| Immortality | Robert Henderson |
| Return | Robert M. Coates |
| Côte d'Azur | Roger Angell |
| A Father-to-be | Saul Bellow |
| First Marriage | St. Clair McKelway |
| The Children's Grandmother | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Three Players of a Summer Game | Tennessee Williams |
| Just a Little More | V. S. Pritchett |
| Lance | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Reason Not the Need | Walter Stone |
| The French Scarecrow | William Maxwell |
A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025
Published: 2025
To celebrate its hundredth anniversary, The New Yorker published a collection of short stories that appeared in its pages since the magazine was founded, in February, 1925. The collection was edited by the magazine’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Dimension | Alice Munro |
| The Burning House | Ann Beattie |
| Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx |
| Café Loup | Ben Lerner |
| Cold Little Bird | Ben Marcus |
| A Summer’s Reading | Bernard Malamud |
| Father’s Last Escape | Bruno Schulz |
| Visitor | Bryan Washington |
| Apollo | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| The Shawl | Cynthia Ozick |
| Good People | David Foster Wallace |
| Such a Pretty Day | Dawn Powell |
| Emergency | Denis Johnson |
| Midnight in Dostoevsky | Don DeLillo |
| Another Manhattan | Donald Antrim |
| The Indian Uprising | Donald Barthelme |
| I Live on Your Visits | Dorothy Parker |
| Life Cycle of a Literary Genius | E. B. White |
| Old Wounds | Edna O'Brien |
| A Rich Man | Edward P. Jones |
| Seven | Edwidge Danticat |
| The Bookseller | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| Where Is the Voice Coming From? | Eudora Welty |
| Tenth of December | George Saunders |
| My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age | Grace Paley |
| The State of Grace | Harold Brodkey |
| U.F.O. in Kushiro | Haruki Murakami |
| The Cafeteria | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| A Perfect Day for Bananafish | J. D. Salinger |
| The Red Girl | Jamaica Kincaid |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain | Jamil Jan Kochai |
| Children Are Bored on Sunday | Jean Stafford |
| Black Box | Jennifer Egan |
| The Third and Final Continent | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Courtesy | John Berger |
| The Five-Forty-Eight | John Cheever |
| Over the River and Through the Wood | John O'Hara |
| The Happiest I’ve Been | John Updike |
| Narrowing Valley | Jonathan Lethem |
| The Book of Sand | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Chaunt | Joy Williams |
| How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) | Junot Díaz |
| Cat Person | Kristen Roupenian |
| The Midnight Zone | Lauren Groff |
| The First American | Lore Segal |
| People Like That Are the Only People Here | Lorrie Moore |
| The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich |
| The Other Place | Mary Gaitskill |
| The Weeds | Mary McCarthy |
| Voices Lost in Snow | Mavis Gallant |
| The House of the Famous Poet | Muriel Spark |
| City Lovers | Nadine Gordimer |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | Nathan Englander |
| Defender of the Faith | Philip Roth |
| Where I’m Calling From | Raymond Carver |
| The Christmas Miracle | Rebecca Curtis |
| Crown Heights North | Rivka Galchen |
| Going for a Beer | Robert Coover |
| Last Evenings on Earth | Roberto Bolaño |
| In the South | Salman Rushdie |
| A Father-to-Be | Saul Bellow |
| What You Pawn I Will Redeem | Sherman Alexie |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| A Voice in the Night | Steven Millhauser |
| The Way We Live Now | Susan Sontag |
| Chicxulub | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| An Abduction | Tessa Hadley |
| The Pugilist at Rest | Thom Jones |
| Gallatin Canyon | Thomas McGuane |
| Bullet in the Brain | Tobias Wolff |
| The Ladder | V. S. Pritchett |
| Symbols and Signs | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Love | William Maxwell |
| The Telephone Game | William Trevor |
| All Will Be Well | Yiyun Li |
| The Embassy of Cambodia | Zadie Smith |
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | ZZ Packer |
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