Best Short Stories ... a personal choice

Best Short Stories ... a personal choice (in no particular order): 

1. A Perfect Day For Bananafish, JD Salinger

2. The Swimmer, John Cheever

3. For Esme - With Love & Squalor, JD Salinger

4.  Why Don't You Dance?, Raymond Carver

5. Signs & Symbols, Vladimir Nabokov

6. The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy

7. Bullet in the Brain, Tobias Wolff

8. The Dead, James Joyce

9. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

10. 26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss, Kij Johnson

Do let me know if you have any other suggestions ...