| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CLUB RATING / 4 | TITLE | AUTHOR | YEAR | MINS (250 WPM) | WORDS | ||
2 | 1.80 | “sorry” doesn’t sweeten her tea | Helen Oyeyemi | 2016 | 38 | 9430 | ||
3 | 2.38 | 1,000 YEARS (Life After God) | Douglas Coupland | 1994 | 44 | 10908 | ||
4 | 2.00 | 2BR02B | Kurt Vonnegut | 1962 | 10 | 2506 | ||
5 | 1.50 | A Better Place | Otessa Moshfegh | 2013 | 26 | 6558 | ||
6 | 3.14 | A Christmas Memory | Truman Capote | 1956 | 19 | 4827 | ||
7 | 2.83 | A Conversation with my Father | Grace Paley | 1974 | 8 | 1900 | ||
8 | 2.67 | A Devoted Son | Anita Desai | 1978 | 16 | 3996 | ||
9 | 2.89 | A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor | 1953 | 26 | 6470 | ||
10 | 1.60 | A Handful of Dates | Tayeb Salih | 1968 | 7 | 1794 | ||
11 | 3.50 | A Hunger Artist | Franz Kafka | 1922 | 16 | 4090 | ||
12 | 3.13 | A Jury of Her Peers | Susan Glaspell | 1917 | 32 | 8047 | ||
13 | 3.14 | A Manual for Cleaning Women | Lucia Berlin | 1977 | 17 | 4300 | ||
14 | 1.50 | A Mark on the Wall | Virginia Woolf | 1921 | 12 | 3084 | ||
15 | 2.60 | A Mother's Tale | James Agee | 1951 | 34 | 8540 | ||
16 | 2.29 | A Pair of Eyeglasses | Anna Maria Ortese | 1953 | 25 | 6268 | ||
17 | 2.17 | A Pair of Silk Stockings | Kate Chopin | 1897 | 8 | 1887 | ||
18 | 2.00 | A Perfect Day for Bananafish | JD Salinger | 1948 | ||||
19 | 2.63 | A Rose for Emily | William Faulkner | 1930 | 15 | 3697 | ||
20 | 3.17 | A Sheltered Woman | Yiyun Li | 2014 | 23 | 5850 | ||
21 | 2.56 | A Sound of Thunder | Ray Bradbury | 1952 | 17 | 4300 | ||
22 | 2.80 | A Study in Emerald | Neil Gaiman | 2003 | 31 | 7850 | ||
23 | 1.38 | A Telephone Call | Dorothy Parker | 1928 | 9 | 2368 | ||
24 | 3.67 | A Temporary Matter | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1998 | 29 | 7185 | ||
25 | 2.50 | A Transgression | Anton Chekov | 1887 | 8 | 1912 | ||
26 | 2.13 | A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. | Carson McCullers | 1951 | 13 | 3213 | ||
27 | 3.33 | A Village After Dark | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2001 | 19 | 4780 | ||
28 | 1.29 | Advice to Little Girls | Mark Twain | 1867 | 2 | 386 | ||
29 | 1.25 | After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned | Dave Eggers | 2004 | 17 | 4368 | ||
30 | 3.22 | Afternoon at the Bakery | Yoko Ogawa | 1998 | 12 | 2965 | ||
31 | 1.38 | Alan Bean Plus Four | Tom Hanks | 2014 | 11 | 2833 | ||
32 | 1.25 | Alice Munro Country | Madeleine Thein | 2017 | 24 | 5979 | ||
33 | 3.40 | Alive | Ha Jin | 2000 | 33 | 8220 | ||
34 | 1.75 | All the King's Horses | Kurt Vonnegut | 1953 | 26 | 6580 | ||
35 | 2.50 | An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | 15 | 3730 | ||
36 | 2.50 | Anansi's Goatman Story | anonymous | 2012 | 20 | 4910 | ||
37 | 1.63 | And All the Earth a Grave | CC MacApp | 1963 | 9 | 2351 | ||
38 | 2.88 | Aren't You Happy For Me? | Richard Bausch | 1995 | 18 | 4387 | ||
39 | 1.38 | As Long As You Wish | John O'Keefe | 1955 | 7 | 1685 | ||
40 | 3.25 | As the Last I May Know | SL Huang | 2019 | 21 | 5320 | ||
41 | 3.71 | At the Anarchists' Convention | John Sayles | 1979 | 14 | 3560 | ||
42 | 2.60 | Barn Burning | Haruki Murakami | 1983 | 20 | 4975 | ||
43 | 2.40 | Barn Burning | William Faulkner | 1939 | 31 | 7826 | ||
44 | 2.83 | Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | 1853 | 58 | 14400 | ||
45 | 2.57 | Bears Discover Fire | Terry Bisson | 1980 | 18 | 4560 | ||
46 | 3.40 | Beer Trip to Llandudno | Kevin Barry | 2012 | 21 | 5175 | ||
47 | 2.50 | Before the Law | Franz Kafka | 1915 | 3 | 650 | ||
48 | 3.00 | Beyond Lies the Wub | Philip K Dick | 1987 | 11 | 2625 | ||
49 | 2.83 | Black Box | Jennifer Egan | 2012 | 34 | 8500 | ||
50 | 1.25 | Blackness | Jamiaca Kincaid | 1983 | 6 | 1590 | ||
51 | 2.71 | Bloodchild | Octavia Butler | 1984 | 28 | 7064 | ||
52 | 3.40 | Borders | Thomas King | 1993 | 15 | 3780 | ||
53 | 2.67 | Boule de Suif | Guy de Maupassant | 1880 | 58 | 14382 | ||
54 | 2.00 | Broads | Roxane Gay | 2012 | 13 | 3284 | ||
55 | 4.00 | Bullet in the Brain | Tobias Wolff | 1995 | 8 | 1930 | ||
56 | 2.50 | Burning Chrome | Wiliam Gibson | 1982 | 32 | 7954 | ||
57 | 1.40 | Caligo Lane | Ellen Klages | 2016 | 12 | 2950 | ||
58 | 3.50 | Candle Cove | Kris Straub | 2009 | 5 | 1170 | ||
59 | 3.63 | Cat Person | Kristen Roupenian | 2017 | 29 | 7206 | ||
60 | 3.29 | Chivalry | Neil Gaiman | 1998 | 18 | 4540 | ||
61 | 2.00 | Civil Peace | Chinua Achebe | 1971 | 8 | 1982 | ||
62 | 3.50 | CivilWarLand in Bad Decline | George Saunders | 1996 | 28 | 7050 | ||
63 | 2.40 | Communist | Richard Ford | 1987 | 28 | 6900 | ||
64 | 2.67 | Counterparts | James Joyce | 1914 | 16 | 4089 | ||
65 | 1.25 | Crossing the Zbruch | Isaac Babel | 1926 | 3 | 728 | ||
66 | 2.00 | Dance of the Happy Shades | Alice Munro | 1968 | 18 | 4553 | ||
67 | 2.71 | Dead Men's Path | Chinua Achebe | 1953 | 5 | 1220 | ||
68 | 1.80 | Death by Landscape | Margaret Atwood | 2015 | ||||
69 | 2.29 | Deer Season | Kevin Barry | 2016 | 13 | 3208 | ||
70 | 2.67 | Désirée's Baby | Kate Chopin | 1893 | 9 | 2142 | ||
71 | 2.22 | Dip in the Pool | Roald Dahl | 1952 | 17 | 4296 | ||
72 | 1.83 | Disappearing | Monica Wood | 1996 | 5 | 1170 | ||
73 | 1.86 | Distance | Grace Paley | 1969 | 15 | 3765 | ||
74 | 1.17 | Downhill on a Forest Road | László Krasznahorkai | 2014 | 7 | 1687 | ||
75 | 3.00 | Duck | Valam Shalamov | 1963 | 5 | 1242 | ||
76 | 2.50 | Everyday Use | Alice Walker | 1973 | 14 | 3513 | ||
77 | 2.17 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | 2014 | ||||
78 | 2.50 | Experience | Tessa Hadley | 2013 | 26 | 6478 | ||
79 | 3.00 | Fatherland | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2011 | 28 | 6958 | ||
80 | 3.00 | First Views of the Enemy | Joyce Carol Oates | 1966 | 18 | 4460 | ||
81 | 2.50 | Fleur | Louise Erdrich | 1986 | 23 | 5662 | ||
82 | 1.83 | Florida | Mavis Gallant | 1994 | 10 | 2554 | ||
83 | 2.00 | Forever Overhead | David Foster Wallace | 2008 | 16 | 3954 | ||
84 | 2.50 | Frank's Last Days | Guadalupe Nettel | 2016 | 16 | 3950 | ||
85 | 1.57 | Free Jim's Mine | Tananarive Due | 2014 | 22 | 5600 | ||
86 | 3.43 | Galloping Foxley | Roald Dahl | 1953 | 23 | 5642 | ||
87 | 1.29 | Gentlemen, Your Verdict? | Michael Bruce | 1947 | 7 | 1803 | ||
88 | 2.86 | Ghosts and Empties | Lauren Groff | 2015 | 15 | 3780 | ||
89 | 1.67 | Ghosts, Cowboys | Claire Vaye Watkins | 2009 | 24 | 5914 | ||
90 | 2.75 | Girl | Jamaica Kincaid | 1978 | 3 | 681 | ||
91 | 3.50 | Going to Meet the Man | James Baldwin | 1965 | 30 | 7430 | ||
92 | 2.88 | Good and Bad | Lucia Berlin | 1987 | 16 | 3880 | ||
93 | 2.63 | Gorilla, My Love | Toni Cade Bambara | 1972 | 11 | 2740 | ||
94 | 2.75 | He | Katherine Anne Porter | 1927 | 16 | 4120 | ||
95 | 2.00 | He Don't Plant Cotton | JF Powers | 1943 | 16 | 3975 | ||
96 | 3.89 | He-y, come on ou-t! | Shinichi Hoshi | 1989 | 5 | 1370 | ||
97 | 1.80 | Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | 2015 | 16 | 3996 | ||
98 | 2.57 | Healthy Start | Etgar Keret | 2006 | 7 | 1735 | ||
99 | 2.83 | Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead | Carmen Maria Machado | 2014 | 11 | 2723 | ||
100 | 2.43 | Hills Like White Elephants | Ernest Hemingway | 1927 | 6 | 1512 |