Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

# 5 Century Challenge

Reading Through the 20th Century

✓ 1900-1909 The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green
✓ 1910-1919 Summer by Edith Wharton
✓ 1920-1929 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✓ 1930-1939 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
✓ 1940-1949 Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
✓ 1950-1959 Beast In View by Margaret Millar
✓ 1960-1969 A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
✓ 1970-1979 Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
✓ 1980-1989 Tracks by Louise Erdrich
✓ 1990-1999 A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds

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# 6 Short Story Challenge
I'm hoping to read 50-100 short stories this year.

Short Stories-First Group
1 Two Soldiers by William Faulkner (1/1/21)
2 Dry September by William Faulkner (1/2/21)
3 That Evening Sun by William Faulkner (1/3/21)
4 Red Leaves by William Faulkner (1/5/21)
5 LO! by William Faulkner (1/5/21)
6 Turnabout by William Faulkner (1/8/21)
7 Honor by William Faulkner (1/9/21)
8 There Was a Queen by William Faulkner (1/10/21)
9 Mountain Victory by William Faulkner (1/10/21)
10 Beyond by William Faulkner (1/11/21)
11 Race at Morning by William Faulkner (1/11/21)
12 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (1/12/21)
13 Shall Not Perish by William Faulkner (1/12/21)
14 Saint Marie by Louise Erdrich (1/13/21)
15 THE MAGIC FISHBONE - an illustrated children's book by Charles Dickens: A Dickens Children's Classic by Charles Dickens (1/16/21)
16 The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (title story only) (1/27/21)
17 The Schoolmistress by Anton Chekhov (1/28/21)
18 "The Singers" by Ivan Turgenev (1/29/21)
19 The Darling by Anton Chekhov (1/30/21)
20 Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy (1/31/21)
21 Gooseberries (title story) by Anton Chekhov (1/31/21)
22 Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy (2/1/21)
23 "How Quest Sought the Truth" by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (from Croatian Tales of Long Ago: Fairy Tales) 2/24/21)
24 "Biography of a Dress" by Jamaica Kincaid (2/25/21)

Short Stories-Second Group
1 The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar (3/3/21)
2 Mother Sauvage by Guy de Maupassant (3/6/21)
3 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3/8/21)
4 A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Short Story by Flannery O'Connor (3/8/21)
5 Charles by Shirley Jackson (3/10/21)
6 Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway (3/11/21)
7 "Fly Away Breath" by Wendell Berry (3/23/21)
8 "The Unspoiled Reaction" by Mary McCarthy (3/30/21)
9 "The Taking of Mrs Kennedy" by Rachel Donohue (4/5/21)
10 Smoke by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
11 Monk by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
12 Hand upon the Waters by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
13 Tomorrow by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
14 An Error in Chemistry by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
15 Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
16 The New Englander by Sherwood Anderson (4/12/21)
17 "A Vacuum Is a Space Entirely Devoid of Matter" (Narrative Magazine) by Sherman Alexie (4/18/21)
18 The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle (4/21/21)
19 Girl by Jamaica Kincaid(5/4/21)
20 Death of the President's Dog by Miljenko Jergović (5/18/21)
21 Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen(5/21/21)
22 Whole New Worlds by Caitlin Hamilton Summie (5/30/21)
23 The Black Veil by Charles Dickens (6/2/21)
24 The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf (6/2/21)

Short Stories-Third Group
1 The Wreck of the Golden Mary: Being the Captain's Account of the Loss of the Ship, and the Mate's Account of the Great Deliverance of Her People in an ... Number of Household Words, Christmas, 1856. by Charles Dickens and 5 other authors (6/29/21)
2 The Bloomsbury Christening by Charles Dickens (7/1/21)
3 "On the Street Where You Live" by Yiyun Li (New Yorker Jan 9, 2017 issue) (7/4/21)
4 "Three-Ten to Yuma" by Elmore Leonard (7/4/21)
5 A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and other authors. (7/31/21)
6 The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens (8/14/21)
7 George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens (9/1/21)
8 The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses by Bessie Head (9/19/21)
9 Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee (collection of 7 stories) (10/26/21)
10 The Open Window and Other Short Stories by Saki (title story) (11/28/21)
11 Stand By Me by Wendell Berry (11/29/21)
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Looks great, Connie! Our short stories lists may look very similar this year! I'm not sure I'll get to 100 like you though! That will be amazing! Good luck!

Lori wrote: "Looks great, Connie! Our short stories lists may look very similar this year! I'm not sure I'll get to 100 like you though! That will be amazing! Good luck!"

I'm sure we'll have many short stories in common since we belong to some of the same groups. That's a plus because I always enjoy discussing stories with you!