Last Updated on 5 September 2024

This includes Poe’s stories and poems. I found 17 different lists of the “best” or “favorite” poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Then I averaged them in Excel to create this master ranked list of all 100 different works. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 17 lists that were averaged. Below is a reading checklist you may print out, followed by the full ranked list. 

Best Edgar Allan Poe Writings – Reading ChecklistDownload
  1. The Fall of the House of Usher
  2. The Masque of the Red Death
  3. The Tell-Tale Heart
  4. The Black Cat
  5. The Cask of Amontillado
  6. The Raven
  7. Annabel Lee
  8. The Pit and the Pendulum
  9. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  10. A Dream Within a Dream
  11. The Oval Portrait
  12. Hop-Frog
  13. Ligeia
  14. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  15. The Premature Burial
  16. William Wilson
  17. The Purloined Letter
  18. Lenore
  19. The Gold-Bug
  20. Alone
  21. The City in the Sea
  22. The Bells
  23. Ulalume
  24. Berenice
  25. Eldorado
  26. A Descent into the Maelström
  27. The Haunted Palace
  28. MS. Found in a Bottle
  29. Eleonora
  30. Silence
  31. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
  32. The Conqueror Worm
  33. The Imp of the Perverse
  34. For Annie
  35. The Man of the Crowd
  36. Never Bet the Devil Your Head
  37. Dream-Land
  38. The Oblong Box
  39. Morella
  40. The Balloon Hoax
  41. The Angel of the Odd
  42. To One in Paradise
  43. The Sphinx
  44. The Spectacles
  45. To Helen
  46. Some Words with a Mummy
  47. Devil in the Belfry
  48. Landor’s Cottage
  49. To My Mother
  50. The Man that Was Used Up
  51. The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
  52. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
  53. King Pest
  54. Mellonta Tauta
  55. A Predicament
  56. The Valley of Unrest
  57. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
  58. The Island of the Fay
  59. Three Sundays in a Week
  60. Von Kempelen and his Discovery
  61. Four Beasts in One
  62. The Colloquy of Monos and Una
  63. A Paean
  64. Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  65. The Sleeper
  66. Spirits of the Dead
  67. Tamerlane
  68. A Dream
  69. A Valentine
  70. An Acrostic
  71. Eulalie
  72. Imitation
  73. Loss of Breath
  74. Lines on Ale
  75. Shadow — A Parable
  76. Romance
  77. Sonnet—To Science
  78. Thou Art the Man
  79. Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German
  80. The Bargain Lost
  81. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
  82. The Devil in the Belfry
  83. X-ing a Paragrab
  84. The Light-House
  85. The Business Man
  86. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
  87. The Journal of Julius Rodman
  88. Bon-Bon
  89. The Landscape Garden
  90. The Assignation
  91. The Duc de L’Omelette
  92. Mesmeric Revelation
  93. Diddling
  94. The Power of Words
  95. Lionizing
  96. A Tale of Jerusalem
  97. How to Write a Blackwood Article
  98. Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
  99. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
  100. Mystification

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