2025 4th Quarter favorites

4th Quarter 2025

The 4th Quarter (Oct-Dec) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Best Of Everything’ by Richard Yates
2. ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’ by Lucia Berlin
3. ‘The Canal’ by Richard Yates
4. ‘A Wrestler Of Sharks’ by Richard Yates
5. ‘The Deposition’ by Tobias Wolff
6. ‘A Really Good Jazz Piano’ by Richard Yates
7. ‘Intruders Of Sleepless Nights’ by Pamela Painter
8. ‘The Little Statue’ by Maeve Murphy
9. ‘Minotaur’ by Jim Shepard
10. ‘A Glutton For Punishment’ by Richard Yates
11. ‘Liquid Papers’ by Nicolette Polek
12. ‘American Beauty’ by Ethan Canin
13. ‘The B.A.R. Man’ by Richard Yates
14. ‘Xmas, Jamaica Plain’ by Melanie Rae Thon
15. ‘The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes’ by Henry James
16. ‘Delivery’ by Bruce Barrow
17. ‘Dirt’ by Maud Casey
18. ‘The Rider Was Lost’ by Nancy Hale
19. ‘The Fir Tree’ by Hans Christian Andersen
20. ‘Live Wires’ by Thomas Beller
21. ‘Let’s Play Dead’ by Senaa Ahmad
22. ‘Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley
23. ‘Crouch End’ by Stephen King
24. ‘Happy’ by Richard Ford
25. ‘Dagon’ by H.P. Lovecraft

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