Short Stories
Dec, 2016 - Dec, 2017
December, 2016 - Christmas
Frosty the Person of Snow, the Night Before Christmas and other stories from Politically Correct Holiday Stories by James Finn Garner
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
the Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy
The Christmas Truce by Aaron Shephard
January, 2017 - Friendship/Humor
Rumpelstiltskin, The Three Codependent Goats Gruff, Cinderella, Chicken Little from Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just Us Girls book
Complaint Department by Katherine Best
There was Once by Margaret Atwood
The Mouse by Saki
February, 2017 - Love/Relationships
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning by Maruki Marakami
The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Kiss by Anton Chekhov
The Count and the Wedding Guest by O. Henry
March, 2017 - Just Short Stories
Food by Ben Marcus
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
Eli, the Fanatic by Philip Roth
The Enduring Chill by Flannery O'Connor
The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
Books and Roses by Helen Oyeyemi
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Bulgarian Poetess by John Updike
The Last Leaf by O. Henry
The Necklace by Henri Guy de Maupassant
The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
April, 2017 - Future/Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
A Shower of Gold by Donald Barthelme
Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
The Quest for Blank Claverings by Patricia Highsmith
The Emperor of Mars by Allen Steele
All Summer in a Day by ray Bradbury
Northwestward by Isaac Asimov
Alphinland by Margaret Atwood
Sitting Pretty/the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
May, 2017 - Motherhood/Fairy Tales
Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales, various
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Hans Christian Anderson stories, various
Chicken Soup for the Mother book
June, 2017 - Mystery
The Red Headed League by Sir Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe
The Bloodstained Pavement by Agatha Christie
The Affair at the Bungalow by Agatha Christie
July/August - No book club
September, 2017 - Just Short Stories
Good Old Neon by David Foster Wallace
Junius Maltby by John Steinbeck
The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich by Nikolai Gogal
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
The Baron of Grogzwig by Charles Dickens
The Whirligig of Life by O. Henry
The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton
The Dor by E.B. White
The Dog of Tithwal by Saadat Hasan Manto
Araby by James Joyce
To Build a Fire by Jack London
How the Leopard got his Spots by Rudyard Kipling
Turnabout by William Faulkner
The Swim Team by Miranda July
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
October, 2017 - Horror/Suspense
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
Two Houses by Kelly Link
1408 by Stephen King
The Raft by Stephen King
Time and Again by D'J Pancake
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
The Price by Neil Gaiman
November, 2017 - Gratitude/Essays/Speeches
Just Walk on By by Brent Staples
In and of Ourselves we Trust by Andy Rooney
The Mind of the Chimpanzee by Jane Goodall
Weeds by Thomas Rawls
Gypsies by Roger Welsch
America: The Multinational Society by Ishmael Reed
Four Letter Words can Hurt You by Barbara Lawrence
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give me Liberty or Give me Death by Patrick Henry
Duties of American Citizenship by Theodore Roosevelt
Demosthenes the Third Philippic
Chief Joseph Surrender Speech
George Washington Resignation Speech
Mahatma Gandhi "Quit India"
Winston Churchill "Their Finest Hour"
Theodore Roosevelt "Strength and Decency"
Jesus Christ: Sermon on the Mount (Was suggested on a greatest speech list.)
December, 2017 - Christmas
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Kidnapped Santa Clause by L. Frank Baum
The Holy Night by Selma Lagerlof
The Christmas rose by Lizzie Deas
The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
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