Books, Essays and Short Stories of 2021

Short-Form

• The Fourth State of Matter (Beard, 1996)
• Bullet in the Brain (Wolff, 1995)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman, 1892)
• Harrison Bergeron (Vonnegut, 1961)
• Flowers for Algernon (Keyes, 1960)
• The Lottery (Jackson, 1948)
• The Gift of the Magi (Henry, 1905)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Connell, 1924)
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Oates, 1966)
• The Summer People (Jackson, 1950)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Le Guin, 1973)
• The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs, 1902)
• The Necklace (de Maupassant, 1884)
• The Landlady (Dahl, 1959)
• Hills Like White Elephants (Hemingway, 1927)
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find (O'Connor, 1953)
• The Swimmer (Cheever, 1964)
• To Build a Fire (London, 1908)
• The Killers (Hemingway, 1927)
• Emergency (Johnson, 1992)
• The Things They Carried (O'Brien, 1990)
• In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried (Hempel, 1983)
• Cathedral (Carver, 1982)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Carver, 1981)
• The School (Barthelme, 1974)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce, 1890)
• Chickamauga (Bierce, 1887)
• Three-Ten to Yuma (Leonard, 1953)
• A Perfect Day for Bananafish (Salinger, 1948)
• Speech Sounds (Butler, 1983)

Long-Form

• The Humans (Haig, 2013)
• Lord of the Flies (Golding, 1954)
• A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis, 1960)
• Lolita (Nabokov, 1955)
• Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1813)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, 1890)
• A Confederacy of Dunces (Kennedy Toole, 1980)
• Dune (Herbert, 1965)
• Wuthering Heights (Brontë, 1847)
• Decline and Fall (Waugh, 1928)
• The Song of Achilles (Miller, 2011)
• Carrie (King, 1974)
• The Third Policeman (O'Brien, 1967)
• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Carver, 1976)
• No Country for Old Men (McCarthy, 2005)