| A | B |
| "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" | Maya Angelou |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| "The Jewels" | Guy de Maupassant |
| "The Sniper" | Liam O'Flaherty |
| "The Kitten" | Richard Wright |
| "The Ledge" | Lawrence Sargent Hall |
| "The Black Cat" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| "Not to Go With the Others" | John Hersey |
| "Lamb to the Slaughter" | Roald Dahl |
| "The Devil and Daniel Webster" | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| "The Rocking Horse Winner" | D.H. Lawrence |
| "The Pit and the Pendulum" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" | Ernest Hemingway |
| "A Rose for Emily" | William Faulkner |
| "The Lottery" | Shirley Jackson |
| "My Father" | Erma Bombeck |
| "Shaving" | Leslie Norris |
| "Gooseberries" | Anton Chekov |
| "The Cub" | Lois Kleihauer |
| "The Flying Machine" | Ray Bradbury |
| "The Scarlet Ibis" | James Hurst |
| "Two Brothers" | Leo Tolstoy |
| "All Things Bright and Beautiful" | James Herriot |