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Suggestions from the
December 6, 2010 Gathering


Fiction:

When Washington was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams

Foreign Bodies
by Cynthia Ozick

Oral History by Lee Smith

People of the Book, Years of Wonders, and March by Geraldine Brooks

The House at Riverton and The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

One Perfect Day by Lauraine Snelling


Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl


Nonfiction:

Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove by Max Cleland

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal

The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw by Jay R. Tunney

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz

Foxfire 40th Anniversary Edition: Faith, Family, and the Land edited by Angie Cheek

Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect by Gloria Whelan

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano

A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

FEATURE FILM:

The Social Network, a 2010 drama film about the founding of the internet social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. David Fincher, director.

SHORT STORIES:

As an added bonus, here are a few short story suggestions from the reading diary of our Head Reference librarian:

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane, The Jolly Corner by Henry James, I’m a Fool by Sherwood Anderson, Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway, The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor, and, The Music School by John Updike. All can be found in The American Short Story, Vol. 1, ed. by Calvin Skaggs.

On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya, and, In Amalfi by Ann Beattie. Both can be found in The Art of the Story, ed. by Daniel Halpern.

The Bound Man by Ilse Aichinger, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles, Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati, The Doll Queen by Carlos Fuentes, One Arm by Yasunari Kawabata, Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kindera, Gogol’s Wife by Tommaso Landolfi, Spring in Fialta by Valdimir Nabokov, The Artificial Nigger by Flannery O’Connor, Nomad and Viper by Amos Oz, Children Are Bored on Sunday by Jean Stafford, Beyond the Pale by William Trevor, No Place for You my Love by Eudora Welty. All can be found in The Art of the Tale, ed. by Daniel Halpern.

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner, Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth, The Rotifer by Mary Ladd Gavell, and, In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark. All can be found in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. by John Updike.

The Language of Men by Norman Mailer. In Esquires’ Big Book of Fiction, ed. by Adrienne Miller.

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne. All in 50 Great Short Stories, ed. by Milton Crane.

The Good Doctor by Susan Onthank Mates can be found in her short story collection The Good Doctor.

The Dead by James Joyce, and, The Weaver's Grave by Seumas O'Kelly.
Both can be found in The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, ed. by William Trevor.

Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car by John Updike can be found in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories.

Moon Gems by Ishikawa Jun, and, The Magic Chalk by Abe Kobo. Both can be found in The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories Vol. 1, 1929-1961, ed. by Van C. Gessel.

The Sheriff's Children by Charles W. Chesnutt, The Sky is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines, and, The Angel in the Alcove by Tennessee Williams. These can be found in The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories, ed. by Dorothy Abbott.

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, The Revolt of Mother by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Paul’s Case by Willa Cather, To Build a Fire by Jack London, Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright, The Enormous Radio, and, The Swimmer by John Cheever, Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison, To Room 19 by Doris Lessing, A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley, The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen, and, Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth. All can be found in The Story and Its Writer, ed. by Ann Charters.

The Destructors by Graham Greene can be found in
21 Stories by Graham Greene.

The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, The Balcony by Filisberto Hernandes, The Third Bank of the River by Joao Gimaraes Rosa, Blow-up by Julio Cortazar, Love by Clarice Lispector, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marques,

The Wardrobe, the Old Man and Death by Julio Ramon Ribeyro, and, Subterranean River by Ines Arredondo. All can be found in The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, ed. by Carlos Fuentes.

Moonwalk by Susan Power, Wickedness by Ron Hansen, Rock Springs by Richard Ford, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, and, Cathedral by Raymond Carver. All can be found in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, ed. by Tobias Wolff.

The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever, and, the Catbird Seat by James Thurber. Both can be found in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker, ed. by David Remnick.


Visit the Library’s current Short Story Display located near the new magazine section for some more intriguing short story reads.

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“A good short story is like a good conversation.”

- Frank Moorhouse





Our Short Story Display Includes Works by

Sholem Aleichem

James Baldwin

Donald Barthelme

Jorge Luis Borges

Elizabeth Bowen

Paul Bowles

Angela Carter

Raymond Chandler

Anton Chekov

C.J. Cherryh

Arthur C. Clarke

Charles Dickens

Isak Dineson

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Andre Dubus

Philip Jose Farmer

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Carlos Fuentes

Nadine Gordimer

Graham Greene

Ron Hansen

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ernest Hemingway

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

Patricia Highsmith

Aldous Huxley

Washington Irving

Henry James

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

James Joyce

Stephen King

D.H. Lawrence

Jack London

Alison Lurie

Bernard Malamud

Katherine Mansfield

Gabriel García Márquez

Susan Mates

Guy de Maupassant

Herman Melville

Susan Minot

Rohinton Mistry

Alice Munro

Vladimir Nabokov

Gloria Naylor

R.K. Narayan

Joyce Carol Oates

Flannery O’Connor

Frank O’Connor

Grace Paley

Dorothy Parker

Reynolds Price

V.S. Pritchett

Katherine Anne Porter

Annie Proulx

Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Philip Roth

Norman Rush

Saki (H.H. Munro)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Josef Škvorecký

Muriel Spark

John Steinbeck

Robert Louis Stevenson

Paul Theroux

Flora Thompson

Tatyana Tolstaya

Leo Tolstoy

William Trevor

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

John Updike

Jules Verne

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)

Elizabeth Von Arnim

H.G. Wells

Eudora Welty

Jessamyn West

Edith Wharton

Elie Wiesel

Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf

and others…

Collections Such As:

The American Short Story

Art of the Story

Art of the Tale

Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

Best European Fiction 2010

Best New American Voices

Best Short Stories of the Century

Centaurus: Best of Australian Science Fiction

Chicago Blues

Crème De La Crime

The Deadly Bride

Deadly Housewives

Fifty Great American Short Stories

The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories

A Hammock beneath the Mangos

Hard-Boiled

Measure of Poison

Murder and Other Acts of Literature

The Norton Book of Science Fiction

Points of View

Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

and others…

And Series Such As:

Nebula Awards

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror

The Year’s Best Science Fiction

Noir Series:

Baltimore Noir

Bronx Noir

Brooklyn Noir

D.C. Noir

Delhi Noir

Detroit Noir

Las Vegas Noir

Moscow Noir

Paris Noir

Phoenix Noir

Portland Noir

San Francisco Noir

Queens Noir

San Francisco Noir

Toronto Noir

Twin Cities Noir

Wall Street Noir

The Oxford Book of:

Children’s Stories

Fantasy Stories

Irish Short Stories

Jewish Stories

Modern Fairytales

Short Stories

Stories by Canadian Women

Travel Tales

Penguin Book of:

Best Australian Short Stories

British Comic Stories

Irish Fiction

The O. Henry Prize Stories

The Vintage Book of:

Contemporary Chinese Fiction

Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Latin American Stories

Modern Indian Literature

War Fiction

Contemporary Irish Fiction

Contemporary American Short Stories

and others…

All titles on this list owned by the Barrington Public Library.