This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt from Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl is on short stories and novellas I’ve read and loved. I don’t often read short stories. The bulk of my short story and novella reading happened when I was an undergrad studying English literature.
That was a long time ago.
Let’s get to the list of short stories I remember liking, shall we?
- “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin — this one is still my favorite of all time.
- “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
- “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
And the few that I’ve enjoyed recently:
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville (In Am I Blue? edited by Marion Dane Bauer
- Love Will Tear Us Apart by Alaya Dawn Johnson (in Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Justine Larbalastier and Holly Black)
- “Number 2” by Neal Shusterman (in Mindquakes and Other Stories) — I loved using this one with my students to teach inference and to model prosody.
- Destroy Me and Fracture Me by Tahereh Mafi
What novellas and/or short stories have you read and loved? Leave me a link to your TTT so I can visit.
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Binti is on my TBR and I still… really… need to read it because I’ve heard so many good things! I don’t think I’ve read anything on your list (although I feel like I’ve forgotten the names of half the short stories I read in high school so maybe…)
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Don’t pressure yourself though. My wife recommended it to me ages ago; it took me until a few months ago to get to it. I enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it more because I didn’t feel like I forced myself to read it. I hope you enjoy it when you do get to it. Happy reading!
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I have just added “Sonny’s Blues” to my TBR – it sounds excellent – thank you for the recommendation. My TTT: https://emilyweatherburnblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/top-ten-tuesday-short-stories-novellas/.
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Great list! I read The Yellow Wallpaper in high school. I should probably reread it because I don’t think I appreciated it at the time.
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I don’t think I appreciated it when I was in high school either. It wasn’t until my college read when everything started to connect together.
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