4) 100m sprint: A short story collection

[Liz]

ATHLETICS: Bronze

4) 100M SPRINT: A short story collection — For our first prompt in the athletics event, we’re doing some quick sprints and reading a short story collection. A short story collection is a book of short stories or novellas by the same author. The stories may or may not share the same theme, setting, or characters.

(Remember that books chosen for this challenge do not have to be sport-related. This prompt was inspired by the 100m sprint but your short story collection can feature any genre, topic, or theme.)

Check out our Goodreads list for this prompt here!

What short story collection will you be reading? (Or would you recommend?)

[Hilde]

I am reading Årets påskekrim: 13 kriminalnoveller fra spenningens mestere, one of my books from the library of 13 crime short stories in Norwegian.

[Denise]

Several options:
Olive, Again (part of a duology)
Speculative Los Angeles (other challenge, local author)
From A Cat's Eye View (other challenge, animal's (POV)
or maybe some classics, Faulkner, O'Connor, O. Henry. Oscar Wilde

[Crystal]

I'm currently reading Lot by Bryan Washington. It's doubling as my read for Prompt 12 for the main challenge (Starts with the Letter "L").

[Jen]

Slowly reading Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny I get distracted reading short stories in a way I don't with novels, no idea why.

This collection is funny & lovely. I adored Standard Deviation

[Lisa Marie]

I will be reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

[Aquaria]

I'll read Ngaio Marsh – Collected Short Mysteries

[Sarah]

Looking to read The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

[Michele]

The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories by Elizabeth Peters.

[GailW]

I read Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer. This is a wonderful collection of daily-life interactions between husbands and wives, mothers and children. Some are a great chuckle, some are sad, all are poignant. I highly recommend!

[Barbara]

I read Table for Two by Amor Towles

[Julie]

I am going to start Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez. I learned about her from a writing challenge I was doing - so I am excited to dive in!

[Melissa]

I read Ghost Stories by Ron Ripley

[Lindsey]

I read The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter, 3.5 Stars

[Lucilla]

I read Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk (and many others). This was a fantastic collection, there was only one story that I didn't like, and I've added a number of the authors to my tbr list.

[Denise]

I read Never Whistle At Night by Shane Hawk

[Victoria]

I will be reading Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes.

[Rachel]

I read Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie - one more to cross off the Christie challenge!

[Kristen]

I was thinking of reading Loathe To Love you by Ali hazelwood, as it’s a collection of novellas, but I don’t see it one the list for goodreads, does that mean it doesn’t count…?

[Lindsey]

Kristen wrote: "I was thinking of reading Loathe To Love you by Ali hazelwood, as it’s a collection of novellas, but I don’t see it one the list for goodreads, does that mean it doesn’t count…?"

You can read any book that you like if you feel it fits. The Goodreads list just has some suggestions, it's not the definitive list of all options so you don't have to limit yourself to it or stick to it.

[Renee]

Read Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In edited by T. Jefferson Parker. The short stories fitted perfectly with the sport of fly fishing as the theme for all the short story mysteries.

[Shonna]

I read To Hold the Bridge by Garth Nix, which has the title novella as well as several fantasy and science fiction stories. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024...

[Devika]

I read Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers. I have read some of her Peter Wimsey books and have enjoyed them. The short stories were okay, but I prefer her novels.

[Leonore]

What the Corpse Revealed by Hugh Miller