Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Titles featured in vol. 9 of Short Stories for Students include:
"Half a Day" by Naguib Mahfouz
"Janus" by Ann Beattie
"The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
"The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn