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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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4th Quarter 2025 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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