“Deal Me In” – 2011 short story selections

*Diamonds* (mostly recommended by others)

1. Thomas Hardy – The Three Strangers (finished 9/26/11)

2. Wild Card

3. Leo Tolstoy – Master and Man (finished 2/2/11)

4. Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (finished 11/12/11)

5. Haruki Murakami – The Seventh Man (finished 5/7/11)

6. Tobias Wolff – Hunters in the Snow (finished 1/15/11)

7. Sherman Alexie – War Dances (finished 10/2/11)

8. Ernest Hemingwayy – Soldier’s Home (finished 11/11/11)

9. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper (finished 11/12/11)

10. Raymond Carver – Are These Actual Miles (finished 1/22/11)

J. Sarah Orne Jewett – A White Heron (finished 11/11/11)

Q. Henry James – The Middle Years (finished 10/31/11)

K. Haruki Murakami – Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (finished 2/5/11)

*Clubs* (miscellaneous)

1. James Joyce – The Dead (finished 10/1/11)

2. Wild Card: Ambrose Bierce – The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (finished 10/10/11)

3. Agatha Christie – The Red Signal (finished 11/19/11)

4. Charles Dickens – The Signalman (finished 5/17/11)

5. Wilkie Collins – A Terribly Strange Bed (finished 9/26/11)

6. William Faulkner – A Rose for Emily (finished 4/17/11)

7. Richard Wright – The Man Who Was Almost a Man (finished 4/8/11)

8. Anton Chekhov – The Darling (finished 11/26/11)

9. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Babylon Revisited (finished 11/12/11)

10. Franz Kafka – in the Penal Colony (finished 9/25/11)

J. Leo Tolstoy – The Three Hermits (finished 10/30/11)

Q. Albert Camus – The Guest (finished 10/10/11)

K. Ernest Hemingway – A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (finished 3/16/11)

*Hearts* (mostly favorites)

1. Rebecca West – Parthenope

2. Wild Card: Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown (finished 10/1/11)

3. Rudyard Kipling – The Brushwood Boy (finished 12/4/11)

4. A.M. Burrage – Smee (finished 4/13/11)

5. Wasington Irving – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (finished 3/12/11)

6. Kurt Vonnegut – The Euphio Question (finished 3/27/11)

7. Oscar Wilde – The Selfish Giant (finished 4/23/11)

8. Amy Tan – Two Kinds (finished 9/25/11)

9. Anton Chekhov – The Black Monk (finished 9/26/11)

10. James Thurber – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (finished 2/20/11)

J. William Trevor – After Rain (finished 2/26/11)

Q. Joyce Carol Oates – The Skull: A Love Story (finished 10/10/11)

K. Mark Twain – The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg (finished 4/3/11)

*Spades* (mostly ghost or horror stories)

1. Stephen King – Fair Extension (finished 1/8/11)

2. Wild Card

3. Stephen King – A Good Marriage

4. M. R. James – The Ash Tree (finished 9/26/11)

5. Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost (finished 10/10/11)

6. S. Baring-Gould – H.P. (finished 11/11/11)

7. Stephen King – Big Driver  (finished 1/2/11)

8. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Speckled Band (finished 10/2/11)

9. Ambrose Bierce – The Moonlit Road (finished 10/10/11)

10. Henry James – The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (fi ished 10/30/11)

J. Howard Pyle – The Cock Lane Ghost (finished 11/10/11)

Q. Jack London – The Chinago

K. A.C. Benson – The Slype House (finished 2/12/11)

Wildcard possibilities/additional recommendations

Edith Wharton – The Recovery

Alice Munro – The Moons of Jupiter

Robertson Davies – The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees

Kurt Vonnegut – 2BR02B