Fifty Books Project 2026
Sunday, October 25, 2026

Subtraction by Mary Robison

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I would say to myself that Raf kept me strung so tight I sometimes believed I felt the earth turning under my show soles. This is no gift th...
Saturday, October 24, 2026

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

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Light pale as milk guided the old man's steps over the field to the creek and then to the mountain, stepping into the black wall of pine...
Thursday, October 15, 2026

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

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She moved away and picked up her candlestick to take to bed, and as she went from the room she said to me, "Good night, Philip, and God...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel

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After the dog's cremation, I lie in my husband's bed and watch the Academy Awards for animals. That is not the name of the show, but...

John Adams by David McCullough

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So much had happened in John Adams's life--he had done so much, taken such risks, given so much of himself heart and soul in the cause o...
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Transit by Anna Seghers

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And yet although all this transit whispering made me feel miserable, it was amazing to think that even though thousands, no, hundreds of tho...
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Lies, Inc. by Philip K. Dick

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There was silence. And then, by labored, unnaturally retarded degrees, a groaning noise came from the speaker of the television set; the noi...
Sunday, October 4, 2026

Passing by Nella Larsen

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She was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. Herself. Her race. Race! The thing that bound and suffocated her. Whatever ...
Saturday, October 3, 2026

Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

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Enlightenment came to Patera Silk on the ball court; nothing could ever be the same after that. When he talked about it afterward, whisperin...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Stories in the Worst Way by Garielle Lutz

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Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming. Look: a man who i...
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