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You are really moving through your challenges. You have read several of my favorites and most well-remembered. “There Will Come Soft Rains” “The Story of an Hour” “The Star” “The Horseman in the Sky” “Lonesome Dove” “On the Beach” “Old Yeller” I wish I could read all these again for the first time.
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy is our July 2023 Short Story/Novella Read.This discussion will open on July 1
Beware Short Story Discussions will have Spoilers
These are the 14 titles randomly selected titles from our Master Short Story List. Please vote for the one that interests you the most. You can cast your vote by using the list number or the titles name. The top 7 will move forward to the poll on the 15th. Feel free to change your vote, as there maybe be ties. A maximum of 7 titles will move to the poll. If there is a tie for 7th place only 6 titles will go to the poll.Example: I vote for #__ -or- I vote for Story Title
119. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
261. Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist
273. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
7. Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
46. Morning In The Burned House by Margaret Atwood
279. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen
357. The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
212. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
67. Futility or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
332. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
240. The Bear by William Faulkner
51. A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
313. Do You Love Me? found in The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey
393. Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Welcome to the group, Jackie!
Welcome Shawn
I just finished rereading Treasure Island. I hope you enjoy it.
You have really done well with your challenges, Congrats!
Congratulations on finishing your Century Challenge. I too, just read The Moon and Sixpence. For me it rated 3.5 stars, I rounded up, it’s Maugham after all.
Gaskell is a favorite and I am happy to hear that The Doom of the Griffiths is so good.
Welcome Em, glad you have joined us.
September 2022-June 2023 is the first 10 months of our eighth year of short stories. These are nominations that have not yet won a spot or bookshelf.Master List 364-400
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Results 31 members cast a vote6-votes 78. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
5-votes 150, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
4-votes 21. Who Goes There? and Other Stories title story by John W. Campbell Jr.
4-votes 104. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
4-votes 196. The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell
2-votes 126. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
2-votes 133. How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
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1-vote 29. Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
1-vote 124. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
1-vote 174. Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett, 28pp, 1988
1-vote 182. The Blue Cross, First story in The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, 7-10pp. 1911
0-votes 63. The Escaped Cock by D.H. Lawrence
0-votes 156. A Party Down at the Square by Ralph Ellison, 10pp, 1997
0-votes 109. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
September 2021-August 2022 our seventh full year of short stories. These are the nominations that have not yet won a spot or bookshelfMaster List 319-360
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Wobbley wrote: "Here are my submissions, and I've tried to find info on their availability:- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto: a ~100 page novella usually packaged with another novella in the book [boo..."
Wobbley,
Your nomination of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, on the first page of Goodreads editions, 8 were published in English, all 8 editions exceeded the maximum number of pages for our short stories/novellas.
Your nominations of Moonlight Shadow. I found it available on Amazon, the length looks good, however it was published in 2012.
I looked for a PDF or other version of “Before the Flood” and didn’t find one. In keeping with things being easy for members, I’m going to leave this off the master list, sorry.
I posted 7 of your 10 please feel free to add another 3 titles, thanks.
Thanks!!
Welcome Meg!
September 2020-August 2021 our sixth full year of short stories. These are the nominations that have not yet won a spot or bookshelfMaster List 272-311
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London is a favorite of mine. I have read White Fang a couple of times.
You have read some top tier classics. I read The Red and the Black earlier this year and hope to get to Charterhouse someday. Congrats on your progress.
