Lisa at ANZ LitLovers has just announced a new reading event – Short Story September.
I don’t read many short story collections – mainly because there’s usually a handful in a collection that are stellar and the rest feel like filler – but that said, some short story collections have crept into my annual favourites list.
I’ll be hot off #20BooksofSummer and giving this one a go. I browsed my TBR stack, and this is what I’ll be selecting from:
- Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny
- Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
- Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry by Christine Sneed
- Other People We Married by Emma Straub
- Middle-Aged Boys and Girls by Dianne Bracuk
- Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay
- Florida by Lauren Groff
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
- Collected Stories by Richard Yates
- Liars in Love by Richard Yates
- Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Grand Union by Zadie Smith
- Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
I’m leaning toward starting with Sittenfeld’s latest and something by Yates – thoughts?
Head over to ANZ LitLovers for all the details.