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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." - James Joyce, The Dead
Widely considered the greatest short story ever written, and concluding with what some have described as the greatest sentence ever composed in the English language, Joyce's The Dead topped my ranking of short stories, with a massive gap between #1 and #2. This would have been my pick had I had the first overall pick, too.
1. Fiction
2. Single Short Story - The Dead, James Joyce
3. Poem
4. Fantasy/Science Fiction
5. Series (A set of books continuing the same story and intended to be read sequentially)
6. Sport Related
7. Children's
8. Non-Fiction
9. Biography/Autobiography
10. History
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