Short Story Society

2023 Reading List

Welcome to the club! If you want to enjoy all fun, ideas, and conversation but don’t have much time, Short Story Society is the group for you! It has all the fun of a book club without the time commitment to reading a novel! We’ll discuss a short story on the second Thursday of each month. Be sure to RSVP on our events calendar. The reading list is subject to change, and we will update the date here in our blog.

2023 Reading List


January

Lawns” by Mona Simpson, 1984

February

Shanghai Murmur” by Te-Ping Chen, 2021

March

“Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest” by Sherman Alexie, 2017

April

“Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, 2012

May

“Caroline’s Wedding” by Edwidge Danticat

June

“Diem Perdidi” by Julie Otsuka, 2011

July

“House for Sale” by Colm Toibin, 2001

August

“The Semlica-Girl Diaries”, by George Saunders, 2012


Photo by Alexandra Fuller
Photo by Alexandra Fuller

September

“The Knowers” by Helen Philips, 2013

October

“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor,1953

November

“The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell, 2018

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