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3rd Quarter 2025 favorites

3rd Quarter 2025

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

  1. ‘Peking Duck’ by Ling Ma
  2. ‘Conversion Of The Jews’ by Philip Roth
  3. ‘Happiest Moment’ by Lydia Davis
  4. ‘Scales’ by Louise Erdrich
  5. ‘Best Western’ by Louise Erdrich
  6. ‘The Red Convertible’ by Louise Erdrich
  7. ‘Great Experiment’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
  8. ‘Every Night For A Thousand Years’ by Chris Adrian
  9. ‘Lies’ by Ethan Canin
  10. ‘The Hollow Children’ by Louise Erdrich
  11. ‘Nothing To Declare’ by Richard Ford
  12. ‘Fires’ by Rick Bass
  13. ‘The Hand’ by Colette
  14. ‘Snares’ by Louise Erdrich
  15. ‘The Prom Terrorists’ by Rabih Alameddine
  16. ‘A Woman Driving Alone’ by Marie-Helene Bertino
  17. ‘Still-Life’ by John Updike
  18. ‘The Ghost Birds’ by Karen Russell
  19. ‘Psychology’ by Katherine Mansfield
  20. ‘How To Make The Wrong Impression’ by Katherine Heiny

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May 2023 favorites

May 2023

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘A Strange And Sometimes Sadness’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. ‘Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme
  3. ‘My Father’s Friends’ by William Maxwell
  4. ‘The Young Painters’ by Nicole Krauss
  5. ‘The First Day’ by Edward P. Jones
  6. ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien
  7. ‘Panther Eyes’ by Luisa Valenzuela
  8. ‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. ‘The War Of The Alligators’ by Horacio Quiroga
  10. ‘New York Girl’ by John Updike
  11. ‘Baster’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
  12. ‘Circus At Dawn’ by Thomas Wolfe
  13. ‘Future Cat’ by Xuan Juliana Wang
  14. ‘A Nursery Tale’ by Vladimir Nabokov
  15. ‘The Sorrows Of Gin’ by John Cheever
  16. ‘Tomorrow’ by Lu Xun
  17. ‘Apple Cake’ by Allegra Goodman
  18. ‘When We Were Happy We Had Other Names’ by Yiyun Li
  19. ‘Everything Is Far From Here’ by Cristina Henríquez
  20. ‘The Flood’ by Emile Zola
  21. ‘Now More Than Ever’ by Zadie Smith
  22. ‘Talpa’ by Juan Rulfo
  23. ‘Gideon’ by ZZ Packer
  24. ‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek
  25. ‘They Tell Me… Now I Know’ by Shay Youngblood
  26. ‘In The West Country’ by Leslie Norris
  27. ‘The Starlet Apartments’ by Jonathan Lethem
  28. ‘The Voter’ by Chinua Achebe
  29. ‘The $30,000 Bequest’ by Mark Twain
  30. ‘The Huntress’ by Sofia Samatar
  31. ‘Two Ruminations On A Homeless Brother’ by David Means

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