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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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February 2023 favorites

February 2023

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe
  2. ‘At The Clinic’ by Sally Rooney
  3. ‘Secret Weapons’ by Julio Cortázar
  4. ‘Bliss’ by Katherine Mansfield
  5. ‘Every Tongue Shall Confess’ by ZZ Packer
  6. ‘In The Name Of Bobby’ by Julio Cortázar
  7. ‘The Cold Boy’ by Benjamin Percy
  8. ‘Ain’t That Good News’ by Brit Bennett
  9. ‘The Pace Of Youth’ by Stephen Crane
  10. ‘I Am Twenty-One’ by Mary Robison
  11. ‘The Daughters’ by Maeve Brennan
  12. ‘Ray-Ray’s Picture Box’ by James McBride
  13. ‘Smart’ by Mary Robison
  14. ‘My Apology’ by Sam Lipsyte
  15. ‘Billboard’ by Richard Bausch
  16. ‘Ozème’s Holiday’ by Kate Chopin
  17. ‘The Waltz’ by Dorothy Parker
  18. ‘The Green Door’ by O. Henry
  19. ‘In The Woods’ by Mary Robison
  20. ‘Sugar Baby’ by Chinua Achebe
  21. ‘Some Like Them Cold’ by Ring Lardner
  22. ‘My Last Story’ by Janet Frame
  23. ‘Haunted’ by Walter Mosley
  24. ‘Yancey’ by Ann Beattie
  25. ‘The Neighbor’ by Russell Banks
  26. ‘A Deserted Street’ by Tawfiq Al-Hakim
  27. ‘Top Of The Food Chain’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  28. ‘Miracles’ by Lucy Corin

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December 2021 favorites

December 2021

The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Meneseteung’ by Alice Munro
  2. ‘Another Christmas’ by William Trevor
  3. ‘Cold And Sunny’ by Maeve Brennan
  4. ‘Mr. Salary’ by Sally Rooney
  5. ‘Naga’ by R.K. Narayan
  6. ‘Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes’ by M.J. Hyland
  7. ‘You Are My Dear Friend’ by Madhuri Vijay
  8. ‘Rape Fantasies’ by Margaret Atwood
  9. ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’ by Muriel Spark
  10. ‘Midnight Mass’ by Machado de Assis
  11. ‘A Voyage To Cythera’ by Margaret Drabble
  12. ‘American Dreams’ by Peter Carey
  13. ‘Weekend’ by Shirley Hazzard
  14. ‘The Homecoming’ by Rabindraneth Tagore
  15. ‘Spirit Of Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson
  16. ‘Our Sleeping Lungs Opened To The Cold’ by Elizabeth Tan
  17. ‘You Are Happy?’ by Akhil Sharma

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August 2021 favorites

August 2021

The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Mad Lomasneys’ by Frank O’Connor
  2. ‘Bluebell Meadow’ by Benedict Kiely
  3. ‘Bravado’ by William Trevor
  4. ‘Upturned’ by Frank O’Connor
  5. ‘The Trout’ by Sean O’Faolain
  6. ‘News For The Church’ by Frank O’Connor
  7. ‘The Mouth Of The Cave’ by Edna O’Brien
  8. ‘The Day We Got Our Own Back’ by Maeve Brennan
  9. ‘Unread Messages’ by Sally Rooney
  10. ‘The Majesty Of The Law’ by Frank O’Connor
  11. ‘Lord Emsworth Acts For The Best’ by P.G. Wodehouse
  12. ‘The Sugawn Chair’ by Sean O’Faolain
  13. ‘Unholy Living And Half Dying’ by Sean O’Faolain
  14. ‘Color And Light’ by Sally Rooney
  15. ‘The Wine Breath’ by John McGahern
  16. ‘Everything In This Country Must’ by Colum McCann
  17. ‘A Dead Cert’ by Sean O’Faolain
  18. ‘The Poteen Maker’ by Michael McLaverty
  19. ‘Up The Bare Stairs’ by Sean O’Faolain
  20. ‘Who’s-Dead McCarthy’ by Kevin Barry
  21. ‘The Curfew’ by Roddy Doyle
  22. ‘Judas’ by Frank O’Connor
  23. ‘Legend For A Painting’ by Julia O’Faolain
  24. ‘On The Empty Shore’ by Seosamh Mac Grianna
  25. ‘(She Owns) Every Thing’ by Anne Enright

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