10 short story collections you have to read

Stop what you are doing and go read ALL of these short story collections. All of them! (These are the 10 best that I have ever read, with some honorable mentions below.)

1. The Collected Stories, by Eudora Welty
2. The Duel and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov
3. The Complete Stories, by Flannery O’Connor
4. The Stories of Paul Bowles, by Paul Bowles
5. Rashomon and 17 Other Stories, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
6. Close Range, by Annie Proulx
7. Tenth of December, by George Saunders
8. The Marquise of O and Other Stories, by Heinrich von Kleist
9. Runaway, by Alice Munro
10. The Wonders of the Invisible World, by David Gates

Honorable Mentions

• The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
• Drown, by Junot Diaz
• The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, by Ernest Hemingway
• Dubliners, by James Joyce
• Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Garden Party and Other Stories, by Katherine Mansfield
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by Z.Z. Packer
• Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories, by Edith Pearlman
• Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger
• Fools: Stories, by Joan Silber
• Sleepwalker in a Fog, by Tatyana Tolstaya
• First Love and Other Stories, by Ivan Turgenev
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, by Virginia Woolf

What are your favorite short story collections? What did I grievously leave off the lists?