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October Reads Selections – Spooky
Test by Theodore L. Thomas (1962)
Ruthless by William de Mille (1945)
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl (1953)
Premium Harmony by Stephen King (2009)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
Optional Read: The Doll by Daphne du Maurier (1937)
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September Reads SelectionsÂ
The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
The School by Donald Barthelme
The Answer is No by Naguib Mahfuz
Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe
August Reads Selections
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara
The Summer of my 17th Year by H.O. Santos
July
A Favorable Favor by Brendan Dubois
The Disappearance of Daniel Question by Barrie Roberts
Artistic License by Edward Marston
JuneÂ
A Father & His Sons by Aesop (1484)
The Father by Guy de Maupassant (1880s) – de Maupassant is considered the father of the short story.
The Prodigal Father by Jack London (1912)
The Semplica-Girl Diaries by George Saunders (2012)
May
“My Dear You” by Rachel Khong (Tin House, May 2017)
“A Flawless Silence” by Yiyun Li (The New Yorker, April 2018)
 “Sweetheart Sorrow” by David Hoon Kim (The New Yorker, June 2007)
Oral History Selection: June Tiang
April
Basma al-Nsour’s “Disappointments (and a Few Clarifications),”tr. Andrew Leber (Jordan)Â
 “The Abandoned Village” by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright
 “Rhythmic Exercise” by Mohamed Makhzangi, translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh
Optional Reads:
Ruminations: Warm Memories of Government Cheese by Tracey Lynn Lloyd
 13 Haikus for Anyone Who’s Ever Eaten a Grilled Cheese by Andrew Peña
March
Weaving (Poem)Â by Lucy Larcom (c. 1862)
The Giant Wistaria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)
Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (1926)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
The White Umbrella by Gish Jen (2019
February
Eve’s Diary and Extracts from Adam’s Diary. (1906)by Mark Twain
Little Miss Sophie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1895)
Sticks by George Saunders (1995)
January
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (1856)
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell (1917)
Thank you, Ma’am by Langston Hughes (1958)
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December
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
you can access a digital copy or visit the Ground Floor Checkout Desk to pick up a copy after November 15th
November
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.HenryÂ
 Three Thanksgiving Kisses by Edward Payson RoeÂ
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1863 by Abraham LincolnÂ
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln formally established Thanksgiving as America’s holiday to recognize the bounties of “fruitful fields and healthful skies” and to help heal the wounds of the nation.
October
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov
SeptemberÂ
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
Cathedral by Raymond Carver – http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf
August
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
JulyÂ
The Story of B24Â by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
access at https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/uploads/3/7/3/8/37380505/1899_march_round_the_fire_x_–_the_story_of_b_24.pdf