I went back and forth when picking stories for this month. I was trying to decide whether I’d allow myself to reread any stories – or if they had to be 365 brand new stories. I finally decided that I wanted this to be all brand experiences for me. If I opt to reread anything, it will be in addition to the new story for that day. The goal of all of this, after all, is to be exposed to stories I might not have otherwise come across – to experience new (to me) writers (though I’ll also do “not new to me writers but new to me stories of theirs” if they show up on such a list).
The stories listed below came from a couple top ten lists I stumbled over – the first ten are from the top ten out of the 304 stories Pravesh Bhardwaj read in 2021. The others come from the 2020, 2019, and 2018 top ten lists that are linked at the bottom of the page.
Feel free to read along with me! 🙂
- “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
- “The Strange Story of the World” by Chigozie Obioma
- “House for Sale” by Colm Tóibín
- “When Eddie Levert Comes” By Deesha Philyaw
- “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” by Haruki Murakami
- “The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link
- “Birdie” by Lauren Groff
- “All Saints’ Mountain” by Olga Tokarczuk
- “Flashlight” by Susan Choi
- “The Pinch” by Dina Nayeri
- “The Reverant” by Edwidge Danticat
- “Pineapple Crush” by Etgar Keret
- “The Migration of the Stork” by Ismail Kadare
- “Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
- “Lois and Varga” by Lisa Taddeo
- “Tiger Bites” by Lucia Berlin
- “Slingshot” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- “Shakespeare, New Mexico” by Valeria Luiselli
- “The Office of Missing Persons” by Akil Kumarasamy
- “The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell
- “On Destiny” Lee Chang-dong
- “Motherland” by Min Jin Lee
- “Redeployment” by Phil Klay
- “When the Tide of Misfortune Hits, Even Kelly Will Break Your Teeth” by Porochista Khakpour
- “Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son” by Saul Bellow
- “Cattle Praise Song” by Scholastique Mukasonga
- “Mucci” by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
- “The Proxy Marriage” by Maile Meloy
- “Dimension” by Alice Munro
- “The Fruit of My Woman” by Han Kang
- “Crooner” by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ami Maxine 
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