
Fiction
by R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Doris Lessing, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bobbie Ann Mason, Denise Chávez, Louise Erdrich · first published 1993
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Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The dead / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- A clean,
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…Treatise on Government, John Locke - The Law, Frederic Bastiat - Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes - Meditations, Marcus Aurelius - Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville - On Liberty, John Stuart Mill Fiction: - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain - The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin - Metamorphoses, Franz Kafka - Candide, Voltaire - The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗A couple of my favorites from this year, I read a lot (50 to 100 a year) Fiction: - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver - Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - A Man with One of Those Faces by Caimh Mcdonnell - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - A Desolation…
on “Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?” ↗Fiction I recently enjoyed: The Ana and Din series by Robert Jackson Bennett. Sherlock Holmes vibes, with Kaiju. Also The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Currently reading and enjoying:…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗