My 100 Shots

Below are the 100 short stories that I’ve chosen to read for this challenge. The first 51 in the selection are comprised of the entire short-story anthology - Great Short Stories of the English Speaking World (Vol.1), with the remaining choices coming from various other sources. I have purposely left a number of slots open, because experience has taught me that I usually discover additional choices as a challenge progresses, and I want to be able to accommodate these.

Once each title is read, it becomes linked in the table to a mini-review page where I give a brief summary of each story, together with some short afterthoughts. As always, comments, questions and recommendations are warmly welcome

No. Title Author Read on Rating Review
S001 THE YOUNG MAN FROM KALGOORLIE H. E. Bates 27-09-08 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S002 THE MAGIC SHOP H. G. Wells 28-09-08 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S003 THE ROCKPILE James Baldwin 29-09-08 2/5 [afterthoughts]
S004 THE BLACK MAMBA Ernest Glanville 30-09-08 1/5 [afterthoughts]
S005 THE PIONEER HEP-CAT John O’Hara 03-10-08 2.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S006 THE TELL-TALE HEART Edgar Allan Poe 05-10-08 5/5 [afterthoughts]
S007 WINTER NIGHT Kay Boyle 06-10-08 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S008 JELLICOE R. S. Porteous 07-10-08 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S009 THE LADY OR THE TIGER Frank Stockton 09-10-08 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S010 THE KEY Eudora Welty 10-10-08 2/5 [afterthoughts]
S011 THE ACCIDENT Mavis Gallant 12-10-08 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S012 O FAT WHITE WOMAN William Trevor 16-10-08 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S013 THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER Ernest Hemingway 17-10-08 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S014 A MOTHER James Joyce 08-11-08 2.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S015 THE HAUNTED BOY Carson McCullers      
S016 THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Richard Connell      
S017 A DAY IN THE COUNTRY Dan Jackson      
S018 THE LUMBER-ROOM “Saki” (H. H. Munro)      
S019 WINTER DREAMS F. Scott Fitzgerald      
S020 HOOK Walter Van Tilburg Clark      
S021 THE DESERT FLOWER Olaf Ruben      
S022 THE REUNION Margaret Drabble      
S023 THE DEAD James Joyce      
S024 SECOND BEST D. H. Lawrence      
S025 IF GRANT HAD BEEN DRINKING AT APPOMATTOX James Thurber      
S026 NIGHT CLUB Katharine Brush      
S027 THE SILK Joy Cowley      
S028 ACTION Len Deighton      
S029 INNOCENT PLEASURES Olivia Manning      
S030 BARN BURNING William Faulkner      
S031 THE GENTLE ART Nadine Gordimer      
S032 CORONER’ INQUEST Marc Connelly      
S033 HOTEL DU COMMERCE Elizabeth Taylor      
S034 THE MAGIC BARREL Bernard Malamud      
S035 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER Roald Dahl      
S036 THE LAST GAS STATION Shirley Ann Grau      
S037 THE SONG OF THE NARRANGUY Brian James      
S038 THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN H. P. Lovecraft      
S039 HIS FIRST FLIGHT Liam O’Flaherty      
S040 THROUGH THE TUNNEL Doris Lessing      
S041 CHRISTMAS IS A SAD SEASON FOR THE POOR John Cheever      
S042 THE FURNISHED ROOM O. Henry      
S043 THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD Rudyard Kipling      
S044 THE DAEMON LOVER Shirley Jackson      
S045 THE LOVE POTION Herman Charles Bosman      
S046 BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER Herman Melville      
S047 LOUISE W. Somerset Maugham      
S048 TO BUILD A FIRE Jack London      
S049 MATHIESON’S WIFE Vance Palmer      
S050 THE COFFIN Uys Krige      
S051 I CAN’T BREATHE Ring Lardner      
S052 THE JUDGE'S HOUSE Bram Stoker      
S053 THE PACE OF YOUTH Stephen Crane 30-03-09 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S054 AESTHETIC DISCIPLINE Carolyn Cooke 18-05-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S055 A HUNGER ARTIST Frank Kafka      
S056 A HAUNTED HOUSE Virginia Woolf      
S057 THE WALL Jean-Paul Sartre      
S058 A CLOUD OF FACTS Margot Livesey 30-05-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S059 HARRISON BERGERON Kurt Vonnegut      
S060 THE LAUGHING MAN J. D. Salinger      
S061 IMMORTAL Alex Burrett 28-06-09 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S062 IN ALCALA P G Wodehouse      
S063 VANILLA BRIGHT LIKE EMINEM Michel Faber      
S064 THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE Oscar Wilde 19-05-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S065 SLEEP Haruki Marukami 11-11-08 5/5 [afterthoughts]
S066 BULLET IN THE BRAIN Tobias Wolff      
S067 SONNY'S BLUES James Baldwin      
S068 The CHRYSANTHEMUMS John Steinbeck 27-02-09 5/5 [afterthoughts]
S069 A Passion in the Desert Honore de Balzac 17-04-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S070 THE WILLOWS Algernon Blackwood      
S071 LOOKING FOR THE ELEPHANT Jo Kyung Ran 12-06-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S072 GRADUATE SEMINAR Dennis Cooper 13-06-09 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S073 A TRIP TO THE TRAIN STATION Jáchym Topol      
S074 UNUSUAL INCIDENT Lajos Parti Nagy      
S075 SCARY SANTA Szilárd Podmaniczky      
S076 BALLAD TO MY TYPING TEACHER Margit Halász      
S077 MOVING HOUSE Pawel Huelle      
S078 PROFESSOR ANDREWS GOES TO WARSAW Olga Tokarczuk      
S079 MORE THAN JUST A HOUSE Daniel Odija      
S080 THE GAME Karol D. Horváth      
S081 AN INTRICATE STORY (abridged) Márius Kopcsay      
S082 MOONMAIDEN Uršul’a Kovalyk      
S083 THE IRON SHROUD William Mudford 25-01-09 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S084 THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON F Scott Fitzgerald 18-01-09 5/5 [afterthoughts]
S085 THE SWIMMER John Cheever      
S086 BURN ME UP Tom Piazza 02-02-09 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S087 THE MISSING STATUES Simon van Booy 07-02-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S088 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WALK Tony O'Neill 08-02-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S089 NOT QUITE JOE MEEK Tony O'Neill 08-02-09 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S090 WISH FULFILLMENT Mary Gaitskill 09-02-09 2/5 [afterthoughts]
S091 BEAUTY STOLEN FROM ANOTHER WORLD Louise Erdrich 13-02-09 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S092 THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL Willa Cather 21-02-09 2/5 [afterthoughts]
S093 RADICAL ADULTS LICK GODHEAD STYLE Peter Wild 04-03-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S094 WHAT SAFFI KNEW Carol Windley 07-03-09 4.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S095 THE BABYSITTER'S CODE Laura Lippman 21-03-09 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S096 THE COPY FAMILY Blake Butler 21-03-09 3/5 [afterthoughts]
S097 YEAR OF THE DOG Casey Kait 09-04-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S098 A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY Thornton Wilder 18-04-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]
S099 TELEGRAPH DOG Mark Twain 02-05-09 3.5/5 [afterthoughts]
S100 THE MUSEUM OF WHATNOT Kevin Wilson 03-05-09 4/5 [afterthoughts]

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