# What is the best Flannery O'Connor short story?

> Grace arrives violently in nearly all of these, whether on a back road, at a riverbank or deep in the woods.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-flannery-oconnor-short-story*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **A Good Man Is Hard to Find** — score 1000/1000
   A family road trip through Georgia ends in a fatal encounter with an escaped convict called the Misfit.
2. **Everything That Rises Must Converge** — score 814/1000
   A young man and his bigoted mother ride a newly integrated city bus in the 1960s South.
3. **Good Country People** — score 666/1000
   A cynical PhD with a wooden leg is outwitted by a traveling Bible salesman.
4. **The River** — score 666/1000
   A neglected boy is taken to a riverside baptism by his babysitter and returns to the water alone.
5. **The Displaced Person** — score 0/1000
   A Polish refugee family's arrival on a Georgia farm unsettles everyone, amid the owner's strutting peacocks.
6. **Parker's Back** — score 0/1000
   A tattooed drifter gets a Byzantine Christ inked on his back to please his severe wife.
7. **A Circle in the Fire** — score 0/1000
   Three city boys trespass on a Georgia farm and set the woods ablaze.

Tags: books, fiction, short stories, flannery o'connor, southern gothic