Fiction 100 vs Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Heroic Romances, Hermitages, Burial Vaults, Catalepsy, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales

Cover of Fiction 100

Fiction 100 James H. Pickering · 1988 1533 pages · ≈ 28 h 23 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway

Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway Corinne Demas · 2004 ★★★★☆ 4.0 560 pages · ≈ 10 h 22 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

The verdict

Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway is the quicker read — about 10 hours vs 28 for Fiction 100.
Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway is the easier read (Moderate), Fiction 100 more demanding (Challenging).

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