All-time favorite stories: an evolving list

Reading list
Written By Brianna Traxinger

In no order, with a bit of recency bias

  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

  • A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

  • East of Eden, John Steinbeck

  • Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman

  • Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling

  • Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo

  • Little Fires Everywhere, Celete Ng

  • The Binding, Bridget Collins

  • Normal People, Sally Rooney

  • A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

  • Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway

  • The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway

  • This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Frederica Quartet, A. S. Byatt

  • Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Short Stories:

  • “Chac Mool,” Carlos Fuentes

  • “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”/”The handsomest drowned man in the world,” Gabriel García Márquez

  • “Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes”/ “A very old man with enormous wings,” Gabriel García Márquez

  • “El mar del tiempo perdido”/ “The sea of lost time,” Gabriel García Márquez

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