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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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3rd Quarter 2024 favorites

3rd Quarter 2024

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

  1. ‘Death By Landscape’ by Margaret Atwood
  2. ‘Guests’ by Mary Terrier
  3. ‘Twenty Minutes’ by James Salter
  4. ‘Headlights’ by Samanta Schweblin
  5. ‘My Heart Is Either Broken’ by Megan Abbott
  6. ‘My House’ by George Saunders
  7. ‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley
  8. ‘In A Tub’ by Amy Hempel
  9. ‘Rose’ by Guy de Maupassant
  10. ‘Vandals’ by Alice Munro
  11. ‘Donkey Gets Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched’ by Steve Almond
  12. ‘My Jockey’ by Lucia Berlin
  13. ‘Bangkok’ by James Salter
  14. ‘Ten-Year Affair’ by Erin Somers
  15. ‘The Prussian Officer’ by D.H. Lawrence
  16. ‘An Uncomfortable Bed’ by Guy de Maupassant
  17. ‘Jeeves And The Hard-Boiled Egg’ by P.G. Wodehouse
  18. ‘Taylor Swift’ by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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June 2024 favorites

June 2024

The June stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Sex Appeal’ by Lucia Berlin
  2. ‘A Stick Of Green Candy’ by Jane Bowles
  3. ‘A Visit To Grandmother’ by William Melvin Kelley
  4. ‘Teenage Punk’ by Lucia Berlin
  5. ‘Animal Behavior’ by Laurie Colwin
  6. ‘You’re The Sweetest’ by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
  7. ‘The Orphaned Swimming Pool’ by John Updike
  8. ‘Late Love’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  9. ‘Rules Of The Game’ by Amy Tan
  10. ‘A Cruelty’ by Kevin Barry
  11. ‘A Dark And Winding Road’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

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April 2024 favorites

April 2024

The April stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Basement Room’ by Graham Greene
  2. ‘Barn Burning’ by Haruki Murakami
  3. ‘Boys And Girls Like You And Me’ by Aryn Kyle
  4. ‘The Sea Latch’ by Cara Blue Adams
  5. ‘Hole’ by Andrew Porter
  6. ‘Face Time’ by Lorrie Moore
  7. ‘The Reverse Bug’ by Lore Segal
  8. ‘The Eclipse’ by Elizabeth Spencer
  9. ‘A Wet Day’ by Mary Lavin
  10. ‘Paradise’ by Edna O’Brien
  11. ‘The Swan’ by Roald Dahl
  12. ‘Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People’ by Lorrie Moore
  13. ‘The Disappeared’ by Andrew Porter
  14. ‘B.F. And Me’ by Lucia Berlin
  15. ‘By The Waters Of Babylon’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
  16. ‘A Thing At Work’ by George Saunders
  17. ‘I, Buffalo’ by Vauhini Vara
  18. ‘The Mom Of Bold Action’ by George Saunders
  19. ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ by D.H. Lawrence
  20. ‘Draft Day’ by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
  21. ‘Texas’ by David Gates
  22. ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Claire Vaye Watkins
  23. ‘A Sheltered Woman’ by Yiyun Li
  24. ‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip Van Doren Stern
  25. ‘Unknown Unknowns’ by Vauhini Vara
  26. ‘Chance The Cat’ by David Means
  27. ‘The Island’ by Tove Jansson
  28. ‘Island’ by Gretel Ehrlich
  29. ‘The Wisdom Of Eve’ by Mary Orr
  30. ‘Life Without Children’ by Roddy Doyle

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