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Oct 11, 2025 12:47PM

153021 Suggestions and votes updated as of October 11 2:47pm CDT.
Oct 11, 2025 12:25PM

153021 Pam wrote: "I plan to participate. I downloaded “Twenty-one Stories” from Hoopla."

Love seeing the library support, Pam!
Oct 11, 2025 12:24PM

153021 Suggestions & votes updated as of October 11 at 2:24pm CDT.
Oct 11, 2025 12:21PM

153021 Lesle wrote: "Tracey wrote: "The Country Diary of the Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden (could also be under wilderness). Let me know and I will put this and the Peregrine under that. Thank you all you super mods :..."

Noted that this has been recorded as a suggestion for the Wilderness reads.
Oct 11, 2025 12:04PM

153021 Dracula by Bram Stoker

418 pages

Group total: 371,796
Oct 03, 2025 05:48PM

153021 Rosemarie, I love that we have such a well-read group here for times like this! :)
Oct 03, 2025 04:55PM

153021 Lesle wrote: "Tracey wrote: "Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton"

Tracy Im not sure how to take this one. Library of Congress and Wikipedia both have it listed for genre as Psychologi..."


Resident librarian checking in. I furthered Leslie's checked with WorldCat and reviews on Books in Print. Nothing I saw indicates it to be a romance.
Oct 03, 2025 08:51AM

153021 Thanks for solving that, Lesle!
Oct 02, 2025 07:10PM

153021 Sara wrote: "Sorry, Samantha. Thank you, I will check out the new threads!"

No problem! Ideally, I would have had that thread posted by Tuesday evening or yesterday, but...life. :) I hope you enjoying reading his work with the group sooner than you expected!
Oct 02, 2025 07:09PM

153021 October is essay time for us. Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb has various editions that range from ~200 to almost 500 pages. I linked this one for its accessible ISBN. Charles Lamb was a British essayist, and earlier this year we read Ten Tales from Shakespeare by him and his sister, Mary, as part of our short story selections.

From GR of this linked edition: Published under the pseudonym "Elia," Charles Lamb’s book, by turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating, and philosophical, offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt. Published in The London Magazine in the early 1820s, these often nostalgic essays are important documents in the development of autobiographical writing which gained him a devoted following among 19th-century readers.
Oct 02, 2025 07:02PM

Oct 02, 2025 07:00PM

153021 James wrote: "I nominate The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960-61) by William Shirer."

We read this back in August of 2023. It is also archived but open to comments still. You have great suggestions to the point that we've already read them! With so many ideas rolling in, I am trying to avoid repeated just yet.
Oct 02, 2025 06:59PM

153021 James wrote: "I nominate A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf."

James, we actually read this as part of our 2020 NF reads. You are welcome to look back over the archived discussion and add to it there. :)
Oct 02, 2025 06:58PM

153021 Jen wrote: "I support Thunderclap- great idea!

Nidhi, The Swan's Nest doesn't seem to be nonfiction or is it just tagged inaccurately here?"


Thank you for catching that, Jen! Much appreciated.
Oct 02, 2025 06:46PM

153021 For Q4 October - December we are exploring Graham Greene. You have a choice between two different collections of his: Complete Short Stories 594 pgs OR Collected Short Stories 367 pgs. READER'S CHOICE. Odds are that some stories overlap between the two collections, so feel free to peruse his works as you wish. Notice the similarities in the two descriptions below! Which book will you be reading? What story of his will be your favorite?

Complete: (GR) Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett’s declaration that Greene is “a master of storytelling.”

Collected: (GR) Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence — this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience.

Previously published in three volumes — May We Borrow Your Husband?, A Sense of Reality and Twenty-One Stories — these thirty-seven stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V.S. Pritchett's statement that Greene is 'a master of storytelling'.
Oct 02, 2025 06:41PM

153021 Sara wrote: "I support The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

I suggest Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene published 1954"


Sara, I am not including Graham Greene as a possibility for next year ONLY because I am now going to post our two choices of reads for Q4 this year... Which are both his. :)
Oct 02, 2025 06:39PM

153021 All votes & suggestions are current as of 8:38p CDT Oct 2nd.

I have not included Garden Party, because we read it back in 2021, I think when we first started short story reads or soon after.
Sep 29, 2025 05:29PM

153021 Short story and nonfiction possibilities for 2026 have been updated! Go check out the possible reads and feel free to add your own suggestions and support. :)
Sep 29, 2025 05:28PM

153021 All votes and suggestions marked as of 7:26 pm CDT Sept 29th.

We could use more suggested titles, and we can always use more support to read listed titles! Plenty to consider for your 2026 classic nonfiction reads. Remember, even if the title is not technically a classic by its publication date, we are still reading ABOUT classics - events and people.
Sep 29, 2025 05:18PM

153021 All votes tallied thus far as of 7:17 pm CDT Sept. 29th. I included my own votes for Heart of the West & Aesop. (If I linked a different edition than the one you did, my reasoning is usually trying to link informative yet also possibly more widely found editions.)

Any other suggestions or votes?
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