In 2021, we read 82 stories, 8 translations. Stories from India, Mauritius, Australia, China, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, France, UK, US, Central America, Ireland, Japan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Chile, Taiwan, Tasmania, Russia, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada.
- The Flats, by James Bradley
- Xié xie, by Belinda Hermawan
- The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet, by Vandana Singh
- The Wife, both by Vandana Singh
- Paper Menageria, by Ken Liu
- The Weight of Memories, by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu
- Water, by Ramez Naam
- A Good Home, by Karen Lowachee
- Lemonade, by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston
- Pandemic 2121: a love story, by Anuradha Kumar
- The Rivals, by Andrea Lee.
- Damage, by David Levine
- Lacrimosa, by Silvio Morena-Garcia
- The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
- You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South
- Five Francs Each, by Fred Vargas
- Lucky We Live Now, by Kate Atkinson
- Tunnel of Fish, by Kate Atkinson
- Beg Borrow Steal, by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- The Silent Majority, by Melissa Lucashenko
- The Office of Missing Persons, by Akil Kumaraswamy
- Rabbit Island, by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina Macsweeney
- A Wrinkle in the Realm, by Ben Okri
- Casting Shadows, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Want You Gone, by William Torphy
- Lies, by William Torphy
- Girls at Play, by Celeste Ng
- Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros
- A Manual for Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin
- When the Rain Stops, by Bryan Washington
- The Committed, novel excerpt Chapter 1, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Estero, by Gerald Haslam
- Sweat, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Mister Taylor, by Augosto Monterroso, translated by Edith Grossman
- I’ll Sell You a Dog, by Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey
- Big Week, by Zadie Smith
- Hardfish Woman, by James Coleman
- Standard Loneliness Package, by Charles Yu
- The Girl Who Was Plugged in, by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Full Circle, by SueGrafton
- Slippery Fingers, by Dashiell Hammett
- Three stories from Dubliners by James Joyce:
- After the Race
- A Little Cloud
- Araby
- Close Calls, by Stephen Dixon
- The Marchers, by Henry Dumas
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Japanese folk tale
- Sleeping Beauty, by Laura Demers
- In the company of wolves, by Angela Carter
- Third Eye Rising, by Murzban F. Shroff
- Oh Dad!, by Murzban F. Shroff
- BloodChild, by Octavia E. Butler
- I Cleaned the – , by Kanya D’Almeida
- Let’s Tell This Story Properly, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- At the Side of the Road, by Ethel Rohan
- American Haint, by Lyndsey Ellis
- Cat Person, by Kristen Roupenian
- One Off the Short List, by Doris Lessing
- Clara, by Roberto Bolano
- The Repatriates, by Sana Krasikov
- 37112 feet above the South Pacific Ocean, by Lennardt Loß, translated by Helen MacCormac
- The Mutation, by Francis Kirps, translated by Rachel Farmer
- Curvaceous Dolls, by Li Ang
- Wrongly Delivered Mail, by Yeng Pway Ngon
- Earthworm, Sea Horse, and Fishmoth, by Ma Sha
- The School, by Donald Barthelme
- Late, by Stephen Millhauser
- The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark, by Mike McClelland
- A Worm to the Wise, by Marissa Lingen
- Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
- Are we not men?, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Eight Short Science-Fiction Stories, By Paul Simms
- Three Knots in the Net, by Rosario Castellanos
- Three pages of oral tales from India, by A. K. Ramanujan
- Monsters Never Leave You, by Carlie St. George
- Bitter Grounds, by Neil Gaiman.
- The Sad Ambassador, By Ananda Devi, translated by Namrata Poddar
- Honey, By Adam Thompson
- Angela’s Ashes, novel excerpt, from Frank McCourt
- At Christmastime, by Anton Chekhov