The Swimmer by Cheever, Old Mrs Harris by Willa Cather, The Summer People by Shirley Jackson, Royal Jelly by Roald Dahl, The Secret Miracle by Borges.

Anonymous wrote:The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

I was going to recommend this or Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

I just read Foster by Claire Keegan. What talent she has.

Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

This, and: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

I loved the Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, set in northern England. An adolescent girl coming of age on her parents' dig at an Iron Age site. Weird and dark and a quick 130 pages.

Anonymous wrote:A River Runs Through It

One of my absolute favorites. I still have my dad's paperback copy.

I just got Lauren Groff's new book of short stories, Brawler. Haven't started it yet but I'm excited to start!

Eve in Hollywood, a novella in collection Table for Two, by Amor Towels .. author of Gentleman in Moscow.

It's the sequel to Rules of Civility.

I took a class on the novella in grad school. Some that I remember:

Jacob’s Room / Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm / George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea / Hemingway
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a masterpiece; it is very different from the film based on it, much darker and more interesting.

OP, I love this idea!

Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

Yes! Just read this.