Stories we read in 2022 in our short story reading club

In 2022, we read 73 stories, 62 writers, 9 in translation. Writers from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, U.S., U.K, Ukraine, China, Germany, Russia, Ecuador, Ireland, Egypt, Japan, Australia, Kenya. Stories included: reworked folk tales, science/speculative fiction, noir, literary fiction.

• Shells I, by Savannah Johnston
• Oysters, by Emily Raboteau
• The Fifth Element, novel excerpt, by Terry Pratchett
• A Collegiate Casting-out of Devilish Devices, by Terry Pratchett
• The Lender of Time, by Salman Rushdie
• The Seventh Wave, intro and episode 1, by Salman Rushdie
• The Fairy’s Midwife, English folk tale
• Midwife to the Fairies, modern reworking by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
• When the Old Gods Die, by Mike Resnick
• Shout, by Dagoberto Gilb
• Everything is Nice, by Jane Bowles
• The Fqih, by Paul Bowles
• The Appliance Crisis, by Beth Goder
• Candide; Life-, by Beth Goder
• How to Say I Love You with Wikipedia, by Beth Goder
• The Trouble Easers, by Bapsi Sidhwa
• Half a Day, by Naguib Mahfouz
• Pig Son, by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Jackalope Wives, by Ursula Vernon
• In a Grove, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• The Wolf, by Kavita Bedford
• How Far She Went, by Mary Hood
• Microbiata and the Masses, by S.B. Divya
• The Ukraine, by Artem Chapeye, translated by Zenia Tompkins
• The Man in the Lift, by Anna Prizkau, translated by Charlotte Wührer
• E-Friends, by Emily Adrian
• Another Day in Paradise, by Suma Jayachandar
• The Biographer’s Hat, by Cynthia Ozick
• The Shawl, by Cynthia Ozick
• Shanghai Murmur, by Ti-Peng Chen
• Lulu, by Ti-Peng Chen
• Graded, by Alison Ojany
• Parenting, by Emily Howorth
• Hammer and Sickle, by Eugene Datta
• The Current Climate, by Aravind Jayan
• Recitatif, by Toni Morrison
• Until Gwen, by Dennis Lehane
• A Gentleman in Moscow, novel excerpt, by Amor Towles
• Great Upheavals Make for Great Opportunities. And Men Will Come to Grasp Them, by Stefan Heym
• Disappointment, by Jenny Bhatt
• Lalit and Labanyo, by Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay, translated by Arnab Bhattacharya
• The Old Woman at the Metro Theatre, by Buddhadeva Bose, translated by Somdatta Mandal, Indrani Das, Pritam Bandyopadhyay, S. Siddharth
• Cattle Haul, by Jesamyn Ward
• Mr Cartoon, by Chris Offutt
• The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
• The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell
• Mother and Son, by Akhil Sharma
• Elmhurst, by Han Ong
• My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age, by Grace Paley
• Wants, by Grace Paley
• The Prophet from Jupiter, by Tony Earley
• The Deer, by Jenny Offill
• The Ghost of Firozsha Baag, by Rohinton Mistry
• Hussaina Qaachu, by Nadir Ali, translated by Amna Ali
• Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies, by Salman Rushdie
• The Harmony of the Spheres, by Salman Rushdie
• Rain, by Zubair Ahmad, translated by Anne Murphy
• Unstory, by Zubair Ahmad, translated by Anne Murphy
• Lulu’s Pleasure Palace, by Cherry Muhanji
• The IWM 1000, by Alicia Yánez Cossío
• The Manager of ‘The Kremlin’, by Evelyn Waugh
• Jeeves Takes Charge, by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, by Andrea Barrett
• Tiny, Smiling Daddy, by Mary Gaitskill
• The Embassy of Cambodia, by Zadie Smith
• The Eyes Have It, by Philip K. Dick
• Small Girl Landlady, by Adachioma Ezeano
• Kabuliwallah, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Arunava Sinha
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
• Taylor Swift, by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
• In the Event, by Meng Jin
• My Mother is An Abandoned Kmart, by Amy Cipolla Barnes
• The Courter, by Salman Rushdie