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September 2023 favorites

September 2023

The September stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Pretty Daughters’ by John O’Hara
  2. ‘Concord 34’ by Sally Rooney
  3. ‘Mojave Rats’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
  4. ‘Ordinary Sins’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
  5. ‘Miss Anna’s Asleep’ by Jesse Stuart
  6. ‘Bestiary’ by Julio Cortázar
  7. ‘The Strength Of God’ by Sherwood Anderson
  8. ‘On The Agenda’ by Lore Segal
  9. ‘This Farm For Sale’ by Jesse Stuart
  10. ‘Wrens And Starling’ by J.F. Powers
  11. ‘The Teacher’ by Sherwood Anderson
  12. ‘The Boundary’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  13. ‘Adventure’ by Sherwood Anderson
  14. ‘My Girls’ by John O’Hara
  15. ‘Turn Back The Bed’ by Wendell Berry
  16. ‘Roy’ by Timothy Willis Sanders
  17. ‘The Boy Upstairs’ by Joshua Ferris
  18. ‘The Thinker’ by Sherwood Anderson
  19. ‘Battle With The Bees’ by Jesse Stuart
  20. ‘As Ye Sows, So Shall Ye Reap’ by Jesse Stuart
  21. ‘A Big Night’ by Leslie Norris
  22. ‘Old Hope’ by Clare Sestanovich
  23. ‘You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There’ by Elizabeth Taylor
  24. ‘The Discovery Of Kentucky’ by Wendell Berry
  25. ‘Trash’ by Souvankham Thammavongsa
  26. ‘The Woman The Book Read’ by Sarah Hall
  27. ‘Respectability’ by Sherwood Anderson
  28. ‘Tandy’ by Sherwood Anderson
  29. ‘A Ribbon For Baldy’ by Jesse Stuart
  30. ‘Loneliness’ by Sherwood Anderson

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July 2023 favorites

July 2023

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Interpreter Of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  2. ‘Three People’ by William Trevor
  3. ‘Mrs. Sen’s’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. ‘In The Basement’ by Isaac Babel
  5. ‘The Dancing-Master’s Music’ by William Trevor
  6. ‘This Blessed House’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  7. ‘A Real Durwan’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  8. ‘Di Grasso’ by Isaac Babel
  9. ‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield
  10. ‘The Diver’ by V.S. Pritchett
  11. ‘The Secret Of Cartwheels’ by Patricia Henley
  12. ‘Sexy’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  13. ‘The Parrot’ by Elizabeth Bowen
  14. ‘First Love’ by Isaac Babel
  15. ‘Sacred Statues’ by William Trevor
  16. ‘The Third And Final Continent’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  17. ‘The Widow’ by Isaac Babel
  18. ‘Allegiance’ by Aryn Kyle
  19. ‘How Things Were Done In Odessa’ by Isaac Babel
  20. ‘The Meeting’ by Alix Ohlin
  21. ‘Graillis’s Legacy’ by William Trevor
  22. ‘After Rain’ by William Trevor
  23. ‘Odd Jobs’ by Jonathan Escoffery
  24. ‘The Treatment Of Bibi Haldar’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
  25. ‘Invisible Bird’ by Claire-Louise Bennett
  26. ‘I Am An American’ by James Alan McPherson
  27. ‘Pestilence’ by Jonathan Escoffery
  28. ‘Ten Indians’ by Ernest Hemingway
  29. ‘The Cure’ by Melissa Febos
  30. ‘The Break Up Of Ice’ by Lucie Elven
  31. ‘In Bed One Night’ by Robert Coover

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