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3rd Quarter 2026 favorites

3rd Quarter 2026

The 3rd Quarter (Jul-Sep) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Doctor Jack-O’-Lantern’ by Richard Yates
  2. ‘The Stackpole Legend’ by Wendell Berry
  3. ‘The Second Tree From The Corner’ by E.B. White
  4. ‘The Life Cycle Of A Literary Genius’ by E.B. White
  5. ‘The Saint’ by V.S. Pritchett
  6. ‘The Seaside Houses’ by John Cheever
  7. ‘Wild Swans’ by Alice Munro
  8. ‘Fun With A Stranger’ by Richard Yates
  9. ‘The Import’ by Jai Chakraparti
  10. ‘Tower Of Babylon’ by Ted Chiang
  11. ‘The Judge’s Wife’ by Isabel Allende
  12. ‘A Shameful Affair’ by Kate Chopin
  13. ‘Leaving For Kenosha’ by Richard Ford
  14. ‘Genealogy’ by Maud Casey
  15. ‘The Cinderella Waltz’ by Ann Beattie
  16. ‘Understand’ by Ted Chiang
  17. ‘So Long’ by Lucia Berlin
  18. ‘My Double And How He Undid Me’ by Edward Everett Hale

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August 2014 favorites

August 2014

The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Bright And Morning Star’ by Richard Wright
  2. ‘Symbols And Signs’ by Vladimir Nabokov
  3. ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck
  4. ‘Free Fruit For Young Widows’ by Nathan Englander
  5. ‘The School’ by Donald Barthelme
  6. ‘The Night The Bed Fell’ by James Thurber
  7. ‘My First Goose’ by Isaac Babel
  8. ‘The Wood Duck’ by James Thurber
  9. ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ by James Thurber
  10. ‘The Fireman’s Wife’ by Richard Bausch
  11. ‘The Killers’ by Ernest Hemingway
  12. ‘In The Penal Colony’ by Franz Kafka
  13. ‘He’ by Katherine Anne Porter
  14. ‘The Rich Brother’ by Tobias Wolff
  15. ‘Lovers Of The Lake’ by Sean O’Faolain
  16. ‘First Love’ by Vladimir Nabokov
  17. ‘The Mysterious Kor’ by Elizabeth Bowen
  18. ‘Thirst’ by Ivo Andric
  19. ‘In Another Country’ by Ernest Hemingway
  20. ‘The Iron City’ by Lovell Thompson
  21. ‘Dusky Ruth’ by A.E. Coppard
  22. ‘The Odour Of Chrysanthemums’ by D.H. Lawrence
  23. ‘The Door’ by E.B. White
  24. ‘The Camberwell Beauty’ by V.S. Pritchett
  25. ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield
  26. ‘Christ In Concrete’ by Pietro di Donato
  27. ‘American Express’ by James Salter
  28. ‘The Piano’ by Anibal Monteiro Machado
  29. ‘The Greatest Man In The World’ by James Thurber
  30. ‘Men’ by Kay Boyle
  31. ‘A Couple Of Hamburgers’ by James Thurber
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