Fiction
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, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Wild swans / Alice Munro -- A & P / John Updike -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich.
Stats for nerds
2recommend
3mentions
3people
2019–2026years
67% recommend33% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- 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 Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton
- Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips
Nonfiction:
- Exiles by Preston Sprinkle
- Jesus and the Powers by N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
- With All Its Teeth by Joshua S. Porter
- In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Copenhagen(play) by Michael Frayn done by BBC Radio, not really a book, but it's great. https://archive.org/details/michael-frayn-copenhagen
- Economics:
- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- Das Kapital, Karl Marx
- That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen, Frederic Bastiat
Philosophy / Politics:
- The Republic, Plato
- Second 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
- 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: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel.
Next to Read: Hollywood, Ending by John Green.
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