Some of my favorite fiction books and short story collections in no particular order:

1) Collected Fictions by Borges

2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger

6) 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme

7) 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

8) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner