Keeping track of anthology reading

Since I'm doing a personal challenge of reading one short story per day, I need a place to keep track of which stories I've read in certain anthologies, so that I can add the entire book to my "books read" list when they're eventually complete.

Edited to add list of anthologies and collections contained in this thread, alpha by title:

- 10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year
- Ain't Superstitious
- All the Rage This Year
- Baby Shoes
- Bibliomysteries
- Black Juice (collection by Margo Lanagan)
- Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction
- Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction
- Clarkesworld Year Seven
- Dreaming Down Under
- End of an Aeon
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy
- Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space
- Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Food Fictions (Selected Shorts series) (audio anthology)
- Fountain of Age (collection by Nancy Kress)
- The Furthest Horizon
- Futures from Nature
- Get in Trouble (collection by Kelly Link)
- The Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories (collection by Rosamond Lehmann)
- Hannu Rajaniemi: Collection Fiction (collection by Hannu Rajaniemi)
- Harrowing the Dragon (collection by Patricia McKillip)
- Heat of Fusion and Other Stories
- Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (collection by Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond
- Lost & Found - finished 09-11-15. Overall rating:
- Love Has No Resurrection and Other Stories (collection by E.M. Delafield) - finished 09-12-18. Overall rating:
- The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards: SF
- The Mother of Dreams: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction
- My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
- New Magics
- New Skies
- Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction
- Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction
- Octopussy and the Living Daylights, and Other Stories (audio collection by Ian Fleming) - finished 03-04-16. Overall rating:
- The Old Beauty and Others (collection by Willa Cather) - finished 04-15-15. Overall rating:
- Prom Nights from Hell
- Returning My Sister's Face (collection by Eugie Foster)
- Robotica
- Robots versus Slime Monsters (collection by A. Lee Martinez)
- The Secret History of Fantasy
- Some of the Best of Tor.com, 2021
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 8
- Star Trek: The Amazing Stories - finished 05-06-15. Overall rating:
- Starlight 1
- Strange Afterlives
- Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories - finished 06-28-16. Overall rating:
- Tales from the Secret City
- Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 (audio anthology)
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories (collection by Tom Hanks)
- Upside Down: Inverted Tropes of Storytelling
- Warrior Women
- The Witness for the Prosecution & Other Stories (audio collection by Agatha Christie)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (edited by Dozois)

ANTHOLOGY: The Mother of Dreams: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction, edited by Makoto Ueda.

CONTENTS:

The Maiden

1. "Three Very Short Stories: Autumn Rain / Socks / Beyond Death" by Kawabata Yasunari
2. "A Marriage Interview" by Inoue Yasushi
3. "Evening Bells" by Harada Yasuko

The Wife

4. "The Lady Who Entertained" by Dazai Osamu. Read 01-03-15.
5. "Umbrella on a Moonlit Night" by Tsuboi Sakae.
6. "Wait a Year and a Half" by Matsumoto Seichō.
7. "Two Bedtime Stories: Be It Ever So Humble / Spring Storm" by Moro Yōko.

The Mistress

8. "Nude" by Nagai Kafū.
9. "A Certain Voice" by Kaikō Takeshi.
10. "Blind Man's Bluff" by Enchi Fumiko.

The Mother

11. "The Mother of Dreams" by Ōoka Shōhei.
12. "Pheasant" by Setouchi Harumi.
13. "A Woman to Call Mother" by Hirabayashi Taiko.

The Working Woman

14. "Song of a Dead Girl" by Abe Kōbō.
15. "The Tomoshibi" by Ariyoshi Sawako.
16. "Lady of the Evening Faces" by Hiraiwa Yumie.

ANTHOLOGY: Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Debbie Notkin and the Secret Feminist Cabal (galley).

CONTENTS:

Intro - Why Have a Tiptree Award? by Debbie Notkin.
1. "And Salome Danced" by Kelley Eskridge.
2. "The Lovers" by Eleanor Arnason.
3. "Chemistry" by James Patrick Kelly.
4. "Forgiveness Day" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
5. "Some Strange Desire" by Ian McDonald.
6. "Venus Rising" by Carol Emshwiller.
7. "Eat Reecebread" by Graham Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton.
8. "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp.
9. "The Other Magpie" by R. Garcia y Robertson.
10. "Food Man" by Lisa Tuttle. Read 01-04-15.
11. "Young Woman in a Garden" by Delia Sherman.
12. "Grownups" by Ian McLeod.
13. "A Matter of Seggri" by Ursula K. Le Guin.

ANTHOLOGY: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins.

CONTENTS:

1. "Midnights" by Rainbow Rowell. Read Dec. 2014.
2. "The Lady and the Fox" by Kelly Link. Read Dec. 2014.
3. "Angels in the Snow" by Matthew de la Peña. Read Dec. 2014.
4. "Polaris is Where You'll Find Me" by Jenny Han. Read Dec. 2014.
5. "It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown" by Stephanie Perkins. Read 01-05-2015.
6. "Your Temporary Santa" by David Levithan. Read 12-7-2017.
7. "Krampuslauf" by Holly Black. Read 12-11-2017.
8. "What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?" by Gayle Forman. Read 12-15-2017.
9. "Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus" by Myra McEntire. Read Dec. 2017.
10. "Welcome to Christmas, CA" by Kiersten White. Read 12-14-2020.
11. "Star of Bethlehem" by Ally Carter. Read 12-15-2020.
12. "The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor. Read 12-11-2020.

Book finished 12-15-2020 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.71)

Amy I'm intrigued by your little workaround here. Would be nice if something like this functionality existed within our own catalogues, of course, but meantime I'd be curious to hear any comments you have as you go along. Or not! -- since I imagine this this really was meant originally as a private thing.

>5 elenchus: elenchus, I'd be happy to share any thoughts as I go along! (I love the community aspect of LT!) I find with short stories I really like to jump around when I'm reading them -- I rarely read a collection or anthology all the way through. Yet when I finish the last story in one, I do want to get credit for the whole book, even if it's been a year or more in the reading! (I suspect a few of them will be several years in the reading....)

ANTHOLOGY: Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction, edited by David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick. Published 1999.

CONTENTS:

"Introduction" by Damien Broderick
"The Other Editor's Introduction" by David G. Hartwell

1. "Flowering Mandrake" by George Turner
2. "The Mountain Movers" by A. Bertram Chandler
3. "Things Fall Apart" by Philippa C. Maddern
4. "Written in Blood" by Chris Lawson
5. "Pie Row Joe" by Kevin McKay
6. "A Map of the Mines of Barnath" by Sean Williams
7. "My Lady Tongue" by Lucy Sussex
8. "Wang's Carpets" by Greg Egan
9. "The Dominant Style" by Sean McMullen
10. "Borderline" by Leanne Frahm
11. "Privateer's Moon" by Terry Dowling
12. "Re-deem the Time" by David J. Lake
13. "Matters of Consequence" by Shane Dix
14. "The Total Devotion Machine" by Rosaleen Love - Read 01-13-15.
15. "The Colonel's Tiger" by Hal Colebatch
16. "The Soldier in the Machine" by Russell Blackford
17. "From Whom All Blessings Flow" by Stephen Dedman
18. "Looking Forward to the Harvest" by Cherry Wilder
19. "The Magi" by Damien Broderick
20. "The Chance" by Peter Carey

COLLECTION: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link. Published 2015.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Summer People"
2. "I Can See Right Through You"
3. "Secret Identity"
4. "Valley of the Girls" - Read 01-19-15.
5. "Origin Story"
6. "The Lesson"
7. "The New Boyfriend"
8. "Two Houses"
9. "Light"

COLLECTION: Heat of Fusion and Other Stories by John M. Ford. Published 2004.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Persecutor's Tale"
2. "20 Questers"
3. "The Hemstitch Notebooks"
4. "Third Thoughts"
5. "Chromatic Aberration"
6. "Cosmology: A User's Manual"
7. "The Man in the Golden Mask"
8. "Preflash"
9. "Letter from Elsinore"
10. "In the Days of the Comet" - Read 01-20-15.
11. "Windows on an Empty Throne"
12. "Erase/Record/Play: A Drama for Print"
13. "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"
14. "Heat of Fusion"
15. "The Lost Dialogue: A Reconstruction from Irrecoverable Sources"
16. "Janus: Sonnet"
17. "Shared World"
18. "Shelter from the Storm"
19. "SF Clichés: A Sonnet Cycle"
20. "Dateline: Colonus"
21. "Dark Sea"
22. "Tales from the Original Gothic"
23. "110 Stories"

COLLECTION: Returning My Sister's Face by Eugie Foster. Published 2009.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: "Eugie Foster in Many Dimensions" by Vonda N. McIntyre

1. "Daughter of Botu"
2. "The Tiger Fortune Princess"
3. "A Thread of Silk"
4. "The Snow Woman's Daughter"
5. "The Tanuki-Kettle"
6. "Honor is a Game Mortals Play"
7. "The Raven's Brocade" Read 01-20-15.
8. "Shim Chung the Lotus Queen"
9. "The Tears of My Mother, The Shell of My Father"
10. "Year of the Fox"
11. "The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon"
12. "Returning My Sister's Face"

COLLECTION: New Skies, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Published 2003.

CONTENTS:

1. "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson
2. "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis. Have read, year unknown.
3. "Peaches for Mad Molly" by Steven Gould. Have read, year unknown.
4. "Serpents' Teeth" by Spider Robinson
5. "Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen" by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
6. "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis. Read 01-25-15.
7. "Brian and the Aliens" by Will Shetterly
8. "Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford
9. "Will You Be an Astronaut?" by Greg van Eekhout. Read 01-22-15.
10. "Cards of Grief" by Jane Yolen
11. "Tangents" by Greg Bear
12. "The Alien Mind" by Philip K. Dick. Read 05-21-15.
13. "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress. Read 05-21-15.
14. "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen McHugh
15. "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
16. "Salvage" by Orson Scott Card
17. "The Great Goodbye" by Robert Charles Wilson, Read 02-18-15.

COLLECTION: New Magics, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Published 2004.

CONTENTS:

1. "Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman
2. "Charis" by Ellen Kushner
3. "Jo's Hair" by Susan Palwick. Have read, year unknown.
4. "Not All Wolves" by Harry Turtledove.
5. "Stealing God" by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
6. "Mama Gone" by Jane Yolen
7. "The Bone Woman" by Charles de Lint
8. "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" by Andy Duncan. Read 08-31-16 (in Starlight 1 anthology)
9. "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" by Sherwood Smith. Read 01-28-15.
10. "A Bird That Whistles" by Emma Bull
11. "The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. "Hatrack River" by Orson Scott Card

COLLECTION: Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip. Published 2005.

CONTENTS:

1. The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath
2. A Matter of Music
3. A Troll and Two Roses
4. Baba Yaga and the Sorcerer's Son
5. The Fellowship of the Dragon
6. Lady of the Skulls
7. The Snow Queen
8. Ash, Wood, Fire
9. The Stranger
10. Transmutations
11. The Lion and the Lark
12. The Witches of Junket
13. Star-Crossed
14. Voyage into the Heart. Read 01-28-15.
15. Toad

COLLECTION: Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson. Published 2005.

CONTENTS:

"Preface" by Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson
"Introduction" by David Pringle

1. "The Cost of Pearls" by Edwin Morgan
2. "A Case of Consilience" by Ken MacLeod
3. "Deus ex Homine" by Hannu Rajaniemi. Read 07-05-15 (*NOTE: read in Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction)
4. "The Last Shift" by Hal Duncan
5. "Not Wisely But Too Well" by A.J. McIntosh
6. "Third-Degree Burns" by Andrew J. Wilson. Read 02-07-15.
7. "Lest We Forget" by Marion Arnott
8. "The Intrigue of the Battered Box" by Michael Cobley
9. "Five Fantastic Fictions" by Ron Butlin
10. "Running on at Adventure" by Angus McAllister
11. "A Knot of Toads" by Jane Yolen
12. "Sophie and the Sacred Fluids" by Andrew C. Ferguson
13. "Vanilla for the Lady" by Deborah J. Miller
14. "Pisces Ya Bas" by Gavin Inglis
15. "The Vulture, 4-17 March" by Harvey Welles & Philip Raines
16. "The Bogle's Bargain" by Stefan Pearson
17. "Criggie" by Matthew Fitt
18. "Snowball's Chance" by Charles Stross
19. "Total Mental Quality, by the Way" by William Meikle
20. "The Bennie and the Bonobo" by Neil Williamson. Read 02-08-15.
21. "The Hard Stuff" by John Grant
22. "Dusk" by Jack Deighton

COLLECTION: Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction, edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi. Published 2014.

CONTENTS:

"Preface" by Eric Choi

1. "The Blue Afternoon" by Daniel H. Wilson
2. "A Slow Unfurling of Truth" by Aliette de Bodard
3. "Thunderwell" by Doug Beason
4. "The Circle" by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu)
5. "Old Timer's Game" by Ben Bova
6. "The Snows of Yesteryear" by Jean-Louis Trudel
7. "Skin Deep" by Leah Petersen and Gabrielle Harbowy
8. "Lady with Fox" by Gregory Benford
9. "Habilis" by Howard Hendrix
10. "The Play's the Thing" by Jack McDevitt
11. "Every Hill Ends with Sky" by Robert Reed
12. "She Just Looks that Way" by Eric Choi. Read 04-08-15.
13. "SIREN of Titan" by David DeGraff
14. "The Yoke of Inauspicious Stars" by Kate Story
15. "Ambiguous Nature" by Carl Frederick
16. "The Mandelbrot Bet" by Dirk Strasser. Read 02-25-15.
17. "Recollection" by Nancy Fulda

COLLECTION: Tales from the Secret City, edited by Cryptopolis. Published 2007.

CONTENTS:

1. "DMZ Angel" by Patrick Sullivan
2. "The Play's the Thing" by Fred Stanton. Read 03-24-15.
3. "Rapture Clause" by Steve Wilson
4. "Dance of Life and Death" by Sharon Casteel
5. "Reform" by Melissa Tyler
6. "Nothing Personal" by Odessa Cole
7. "The Dead God" by David Chang
8. "Of Blood and Honey" by Stina Leicht
9. "Ice" by Patrice E. Sarath. Read 03-24-15.
10. "Race to the Noonie" by Matthew Bey

ANTHOLOGY: All the Rage this Year, edited by Keith Olexa. Published 2004.

CONTENTS:

"Editor's Note" by Keith Olexa
"Introduction: Out Digging in the Idea Mine" by John Ordover

1. "Veil of Ignorance" by David Barr Kirtley. Read 04-02-15.
2. "The Man Who Murdered Himself" by Nancy Fulda. Read 04-04-15
3. "All the Rage This Year" by David Walton
4. "And Cry the Name of David" by Virginia Baker
5. "GoldenTown" by Daniel Conover
6. "The Second Chance of Clevon Walker" by Eric B. Griffin
7. "The Man Who Moved the Moon" by Eric James Stone
8. "The Big Shot" by Susan Fry
9. "Two Rooms and All the Electricity You Can Eat" by M.T. Reiten
10. "Dissident" by Julie Hyzy
11. "The Walls Within" by Lane Robins
12. "Earl Billings and the Angels of the Lord" by James Maxey. Read 04-04-15

>5 elenchus: I've been keeping track of stories read in anthologies in my LT account for ages.

I enter each story as I read it, adding the anthology name to the publisher field (used to put it in comments) and the reading date. Then I can search by anthology name, and all the stories I've read come up.

I've also tried entering all the stories in the anthology and then marking the ones that I read as I went along. I got too obsessive about it and was spending more time adding anthology contents than I was reading so I stopped. But that's another way to do it.

Yeah, the obsessive part is what I'm worried about for myself. Already too little time to read, I don't want to spend much of it cataloguing. Eventually, I think LT will have almost any story I want, entered by another user. Think it'll be pretty great then.

>19 elenchus:

Whereas I love the cataloging part. ;-) But yes, it's time-consuming. I used to be a cataloging librarian, but ended up moving into reference. I always missed cataloging after that!

I emphathise you and aulsmith the time spent cataloguing, I actually enjoy that quite a bit! I've just had to make some hard choices, and realised I like reading more.

COLLECTION: The Old Beauty and Others by Willa Cather. Published 1948.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Old Beauty" - Read 04-13-15.
2. "The Best Years" - Read 04-15-15.
3. "Before Breakfast" - Read 04-14-15.

Book finished 04-15-15 - overall rating

ANTHOLOGY: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois. Published 2014.

CONTENTS:

Summation: 2013

1. "The Discovered Country" by Ian R. MacLeod
2. "The Book Seller" by Lavie Tidhar - Stopped reading
3. "Pathways" by Nancy Kress
4. "A Heap of Broken Images" by Sunny Moraine - Read 04-20-15.
5. "Rock of Ages" by Jay Lake - not reading (had stopped reading earlier work in this series)
6. "Rosary and Goldenstar" by Geoff Ryman
7. "Gray Wings" by Karl Bunker - Read 04-20-15.
8. "The Best We Can" by Carrie Vaughn - Read 04-16-15.
9. "Transitional Forms" by Paul J. McAuley
10. "Precious Mental" by Robert Reed
11. "Martian Blood" by Allen M. Steele
12. "Zero for Conduct" by Greg Egan
13. "The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard
14. "A Map of Mercury" by Alastair Reynolds
15. "One" by Nancy Kress
16. "Murder on the Aldrin Express" by Martin L. Shoemaker
17. "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince" by Jake Kerr
18. "The Plague" by Ken Liu - Read 04-15-15.
19. "Fleet" by Sandra McDonald - Read 04-15-15.
20. "The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin" by Michael Swanwick
21. "Bad Day on Boscobel" by Alexander Jablokov
22. "The Irish Astronaut" by Val Nolan - Stopped reading
23. "The Other Gun" by Neal Asher
24. "Only Human" by Lavie Tidhar
25. "Entangled" by Ian R. MacLeod
26. "Earth" by Stephen Baxter
27. "Technarion" by Sean McMullen
28. "Finders" by Melissa Scott
29. "The Queen of Night's Aria" by Ian McDonald
30. "Hard Stars" by Brendan DuBois
31. "The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly
32. "Quicken" by Damien Broderick

Honorable Mentions: 2013

ANTHOLOGY: Star Trek: The Amazing Stories. Published 2002.

CONTENTS:

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1. "Last Words" by A.C. Crispin - Read 05-03-15.
2. "Bedside Matters" by Greg Cox - Read 05-02-15.
3. "On the Scent of Trouble" by John Gregory Betancourt - Read 05-04-15.
4. "Life Itself is Reason Enough" by M. Shayne Bell - Read 05-06-15.

Star Trek: Voyager

5. "A Night at Sandrine's" by Christie Golden - Read 05-06-15.
6. "When Push Comes to Shove" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz - Read 05-01-15.
7. "The Space Vortex of Doom" by D.W. "Prof" Smith - Read 05-06-15.

Book finished 5-06-15 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 2.64)

ANTHOLOGY: 10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year. Published 2009.

CONTENTS:

1. "A View of Mount Warning" by Robert Drewe
2. "Hate at First Sight" by Kathy Lette - Read 05-19-15.
3. "Life in a Hotel Room" by Wiliam McInnes
4. "Elizabeth's News" by Monica McInerney
5. "Ithaca in My Mind" by Peter Temple
6. "Blackberries" by Tom Keneally
7. "Twelve Minutes" by Melina Marchetta
8. "Manhattan Dreaming" by Anita Heiss
9. "You Can Change Your Life" Toni Jordan - Read 05-20-15.
10. "Letter from a Drunk to a Long Gone Wife" by Jack Marx - Read 05-29-15.

ANTHOLOGY: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 8, edited by Dean Wesley Smith. Published 2005.

CONTENTS:

Introduction by Dean Wesley Smith

Star Trek
1. "Shanghaied" by Alan James Garbers
2. "Assignment: One" by Kevin Lauderdale
3. "Demon" by Kevin Andrew Hosey
4. "Don't Call Me Tiny" by Paul C. Tseng

Star Trek: The Next Generation
5. "Morning Bells are Ringing" by Kevin G. Summers - Read 05-26-15.
6. "Passages of Deceit" by Sarah A. Seaborne
7. "Final Flight" by John Takis

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8. "Trek" by Dan C. Duval
9. "Gumbo" by Amy Vincent
10. "Promises Made" by David DeLee
11. "Always a Price" by Muri McCage

Star Trek: Voyager
12. "Transfiguration" by Susan S. McCrackin
13. "This Drone" by M.C. DeMarco
14. "Once Upon a Tribble" by Annie Reed
15. "You May Kiss the Bride" by Amy Sisson - Read 05-25-15.
16. "Coffee with a Friend" by J.B. Stevens

Star Trek: Enterprise
17. "Egg Drop Soup" by Robert Burke Richardson
18. "Hero" by Lorraine Anderson - Read 05-25-15.
19. "Insanity" by A. Rhea King

Speculations
20. "Alpha & Omega" by Derek Tyler Attico
21. "Concurrence" by Geoffrey Thorne
22. "Dawn" by Paul J. Kaplan

ANTHOLOGY: The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future, edited by Gardner Dozois. Published 2000.

CONTENTS:

Preface

1. "Gnyal of Sfere" by Jack Vance
2. "Old Hundredth" by Brian W. Aldiss
3. "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" by Cordwainer Smith
4. "Day Million" by Frederik Pohl
5. "Bumberboom" by Avram Davidson
6. "Coranda" by Keith Roberts
7. "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg
8. "Pale Roses" by Michael Moorcock
9. "Anniversary Project" by Joe Haldeman - Read 06-04-15.
10. "Slow Music" by James Tiptree, Jr.
11. "The Map" by Gene Wolfe
12. "Dinosaurs" by Walter Jon Williams - Read 06-09-15.
13. "The Death Artist" by Alexander Jablokov
14. "Sister Alice" by Robert Reed
15. "Recording Angel" by Paul J. McAuley
16. "Genesis" by Poul Anderson
17. "The Days of Solomon Gursky" by Ian McDonald

COLLECTION: Fountain of Age: Stories by Nancy Kress. Published 2012.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Erdmann Nexus"
2. "The Kindness of Strangers"
3. "By Fools Like Me"
4. "First Rites"
5. "End Game" - Read 06-18-15.
6. "Images of Anna"
7. "Laws of Survival"
8. "Safeguard"
9. "Fountain of Age"

ANTHOLOGY: On the Fringe, edited by Donald R. Gallo. Published 2001.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

1. "Geeks Bearing Gifts" by Ron Koertge
2. "Great Expectations" by M.E. Kerr - Read 07-09-16
3. "Shortcut" by Nancy Werlin
4. "Through a Window" by Angela Johnson - Read 07-02-15
5. "Muzak for Prozac" by Jack Gantos - Read 06-28-15
6. "Standing on the Roof Naked" by Francess Lantz
7. "Mrs. Noonan" by Graham Salisbury
8. "WWJD" by Will Weaver
9. "Satyagraha" by Alden R. Carter
10. "A Letter from the Fringe" by Joan Bauer
11. "Guns for Geeks" by Chris Crutcher

Stopped reading 07-09-16; no longer own.

COLLECTION: Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi. Published 2015.

CONTENTS:

1. "Deus Ex Homine" - Read 07-05-15
2. "The Server and the Dragon" - Read 07-07-15
3. "Tyche and the Ants" - Read 07-14-15
4. "The Haunting of Apollo A7LB" - Read 07-20-15
5. "His Master's Voice" - Read 07-20-15
6. "Elegy for a Young Elk"
7. "The Jugaad Cathedral"
8. "Fisher of Men"
9. "Invisible Planets"
10. "Ghost Dogs"
11. "The Viper Blanket"
12. "Paris, in Love"
13. "Topsight"
14. "The Oldest Game"
15. "Shibuya no Love"
16. "Satan's Typist"
17. "Skywalker of Earth"
18. Neurofiction: Introduction to "Snow White is Dead"
19. "Snow White is Dead"
20. Introduction to "Unused Tomorrows and Other Stories"
21. "Unused Tomorrows and Other Stories"

ANTHOLOGY: Lost & Found, edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss. Published 2000.

CONTENTS:

Note to the Reader

1. "Duel Identities" by David Lubar - Read 08-05-15
2. "The Book" by Shelley Stoehr - Read 09-08-15
3. "To Express How Much" by Mary Ann McGuigan - Read 09-09-15
4. "As Skinny Does" by Adele Griffin - Read 07-13-15
5. "Kids in the Mall" by Mel Glenn - Read 09-10-15
6. "Testing" by Tamora Pierce - Read 07-25-15
7. "Thirteen Diddles" by Jon Scieszka - Read 08-02-15
8. "Tell Me Who You Hang Out With and I'll Tell You What You Are" by Eleanora E. Tate - Read 09-11-15
9. "Final Cut" by Rich Wallace - Read 08-12-15
10. "The World of Darkness" by Lois Metzger - Read 08-02-15
11. "A Safe Space" by Joyce Hansen - Read 08-17-15
12. "Sproing!" by Joan Abelove - Read 08-02-15
13. "Rachel's Vampire" by Paul Zindel - Read 07-22-15

Book finished 9-11-15 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.04)

ANTHOLOGY: The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards: SF, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Published 2011.

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Final 2009 Nebula Ballot

1. "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" by Saladin Ahmed
2. "I Remember the Future" by Michael A. Burstein
3. "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin - Read 7-23-15
4. "Going Deep" by James Patrick Kelly - Read 8-29-16
5. "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh - Read 5-19-16
6. "Spar" by Kij Johnson
7. (essay) "Neal Barrett, Jr.: Writer of Excellence and My Brother" by Joe R. Lansdale
8. "Getting Dark" by Neal Barrett, Jr.
9. "The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi - Read 5-18-16
10. "Vinegar Peace (Or, the Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage" by Michael Bishop
11. "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" by Richard Bowes
12. "Divining Light" by Ted Kosmatka
13. "A Memory of Wind" by Rachel Swirsky
14. "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster
15. (essay) "SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master: Joe Haldeman" by Mark Kreighbaum
16. (essay) "Appreciation" by Connie Willis
17. "A !Tangled Web" by Joe Haldeman - Read 5-21-16
18. "The Women of Nell Gwynne's" by Kage Baker
19. (poem) "Song for an Ancient City" by Amal El-Mohtar"
20. (poem) "Search" by Geoffrey A. Landis
21. (poem) "Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis

Other Awards
About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
About the Nebula Awards
Complete List of Past Nebula Award Winners

ANTHOLOGY: Baby Shoes: 100 Stories by 100 Authors, edited by Dani J. Caile and Jason Brick. Published 2015.

CONTENTS:

1. "Valley of the Black Pig" by Scott Crowder - Read 08-18-15
2. "The Fan" by Cynthia Lang
3. "Trapped in a Box" by John James
4. "Anika's Fall" by Jenny Cokeley - Read 08-24-15
5. "A Touch of Christmas" by N.L. Bowley
6. "Class Clown" by Jim Pahz - Read 08-24-15
7. "Lost Sheep" by Crystal Yoner
8. "Collared" by S.M. Chandler
9. "Queenkiller" by Adam Thomas Gottfried - Read 08-24-15
10. "A Special Child" by Seth Bradley
11. "Crimson Cotton" by Macy Mixdorf - Read 08-14-15
12. "Night Delivery" by M.S. Lambert
13. "All the Quiet in the World" by Kyle Owens
14. "Blue" by Ethan Noone
15. "Never Used" by Larry Oldham
16. "An Affair to Forget" by April J. Moore
17. "Penumbra" by C.M. Crockford
18. "Beneath London's Streets" by Carrie Uffindell
19. "Rubble" by Tiaan Lubbe
20. "A Wanted Man" by Shelley Widhalm
21. "The Apocalypse According to Dogs" by Marquita West
22. "Reclaiming Childhood Memories" by Sharon Rezac Andersen
23. "Second Chances" by C.A. Verstraete
24. "Burned" by Jeb Brack
25. "Blow" by Gerri Leen - Read 08-13-15
26. "Ready to Face Home" by Derek Knutsen
27. "Never Used" by Christina Dudley
28. "3:27 AM" by Dan Repperger
29. "A Sealed Letter" by Owen Palmiotti
30. "The Crash" by Charles Loomis
31. "The Shadow Figure and the Old Woman" by Monroe Truss
32. "Confessions" by Zephyra Burt
33. "A Cobbler's Curse" by Bam Leslie
34. "On Spilling on the Train" by Robert Eversmann
35. "Ballerina" by Jess Kapp - Read 08-14-15
36. "Sexual Liberation for Married Ladies" by April Aasheim - Read 08-14-15
37. "Weeds" by Ian Christy
38. "I Know Doe" by Cody May
39. "Sweat Man (The Worst Superhero Ever)" by Dan Marshall
40. "The Centenarian" by Maya Silver
41. "Nightly Sin. Morning Penance." by Maria Clark - Read 08-24-15
42. "(Not) For Sale" by Barry Koplen - Read 08-18-15
43. "Consummation" by Danika Dinsmore
44. "Harried Hal" by Wes Choc
45. "Dead Sexy" by Jason Brick
46. "Whistler's Dilemma" by Lawrence W. Paz
47. "Rescue 911: The UFO!" by Peter Boadry
48. "The Swell" by Laura Scott
49. "Captain Lewis Meets His Demon" by Mark R. O'Neill
50. "Torn" by Dani J. Caile
51. "Métier" by John Deal - Read 08-24-15
52. "Ankow" by Erika Gimbel
53. "Tough Times" by Greg Henry
54. "Tissues" by Kathryn Cowan Shephard
55. "Fall" by Nick Brigs
56. "Willie" by M.D. Pitman
57. "A Good Guy Almost a Dead Guy!" by Mark Rusin
58. "The Real Monster" by Nathan Hystad
59. "Twenty-Something Blues" by Amy Beth Outland
60. "Demanding Boss" by Eddy Webb
61. "Curds and Whey" by E.L. Johnson
62. "The Crater Maiden" by Julie M. Rodriguez
63. "Possessions" by Miranda Carter
64. "Keep Off Median" by Rhonnie Fordham
65. "Under the Influence" by Sandra Valmana
66. "Night Out" by Nancy Townsley
67. "Conspiracy Theory" by William Hertling - Read 08-14-15
68. "Playing for Keeps" by Jack B. Rochester
69. "How Many Leaves?" by David M. Covenant
70. "The River" by EA Roper
71. "The Dog Who Came to Breakfast" by Maggie Grinnell
72. "The Job" by Joe R. Lansdale - Read 08-15-15
73. "Monster Hunt" by Tyler Denning
74. "Aliens at the Flea Market" by M. Earl Smith - Read 08-14-15
75. "Iced and Hot" by A.A. Blakey
76. "Human Chess" by Amanda Whitbeck
77. "What is Love" by Ron Chaterjee
78. "Gone" by Thomas Palestrini
79. "The Unmatched" by Lina Zilionyte
80. "The Weight of Gravity" by Mindy Windholz
81. "Revelation" by Gregg Edwards Townsley
82. "Another Thanksgiving" by Lisa Nordin
83. "Trojan Horse" by Phil Cummings
84. "Zombie Tenant" by Vinnie Penn
85. "Danny Boy" by Rose LeMort
86. "Expiration Date" by Katherine Valdez
87. "Transformed" by Debby Dodds
88. "Verse, Chorus, Bridge" by Christian Fink Jensen
89. "Superstitions? A Janie Martin Story" by Jane Nagler
90. "Solace" by Erika Rybczyk
91. "Adventures in Freeland" by Caitlin Park
92. "The Seven Friends" by David Mundt
93. "Call Them" by Patrick Garratt
94. "Pathways" by Trinity N. Herr
95. "Legalese" by Pat Marum
96. "Altoids" by Karen B. Call
97. "Paternity Test" by Bert Edens
98. "War, With Incident" by Arlan Andrews, Sr.
99. "The Millenium Party" by Walter Jon Williams - Read 08-28-15
100. "The Primrose Bath" by Linda Needham

COLLECTION: Robots versus Slime Monsters by A. Lee Martinez

CONTENTS

1. "Bigfoot Dreams"
2. "Wizard Bait"
3. "Penelope and the Willful Blade"
4. "Greyback in Blue" - Read 08-14-15
5. "Death, Dust, and Other Inconveniences"
6. "Work Ethic"
7. "My Dinner with Ares"
8. "Pizza Madness"
9. "Cindy and Cragg"
10. "Imogen's Epic Day"

Afterword

COLLECTION: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

CONTENTS:

1. "Half Past Four" - Read 12-04-18
2. "The Professor's Houses" - Read 12-05-18
3. "Ruby on the 67" - Read 08-15-16
4. "Limberlost" - Read 12-05-18

AUDIO ANTHOLOGY: Selected Shorts: Food Fictions

CONTENTS

1. "I Was Really Very Hungry" by M.F.K. Fisher, read by Christina Pickles - Listened 09-01-15
2. "Sorry Fugu" by T.C. Boyle, read by Tony Roberts - Listened 03-31-16
3. "Just a Little More" by V.S. Pritchett, read by René Auberjonois - Listened 09-17-15
4. "Indigestion" by Anton Chekhov, read by Bradley Whitford - Listened 09-15-15
5. "Taste" by Roald Dahl, read by John Lithgow - Listened 02-24-19
6. "A Piece of Pie" by Damon Runyon, read by John Shea
7. "Enough" by Alice McDermott, read by Fionnula Flanagan - Listened 09-18-15

AUDIO COLLECTION: The Witness for the Prosecution & Other Stories by Agatha Christie, narrated by Christopher Lee

CONTENTS

1. "The Witness for the Prosecution" - Listened 09-15-15
2.
3.
4.
5.

ANTHOLOGY: Strange Afterlives, edited by A. Lee Martinez, 2015.

1. "Mouse Trouble" by A. Lee Martinez
2. "After the Invasion" by Russell C. Connor
3. "Seated Woman with Child" by Rosemary Clement-Moore - Read 06-14-15
4. "Roots" by Brooke Fossey
5. "The Late Mrs. Buttons" by Sally Hamilton - Read 09-30-15
6. "An Undercover Haunting" by Kristi Hutson Read 06-14-15
7. "Gimme Shelter" by David C. Whiteman
8. "01001110" by Nik Holman
9. "The Runner" by John Bartell
10. "Night Witch" by Shawn Scarber - Read 10-12-15
11. "The Scavenger Hunt" by John Sanders Jr.

ANTHOLOGY: Ain't Superstitious, edited by Juliana Rew, 2015.

CONTENTS TO BE ADDED

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ANTHOLOGY: Robotica, edited by Elizabeth Hirst and Ira Nayman, 2015.

CONTENTS TO BE ADDED

IN PROGRESS

"Lovot" by Santiago Eximeno - Read ________

"Keeping It Real" by Kim Strattford - Read ________

"The Broken Doll" by Robert Green - Read ________

"The Maker's Mark" by Mark Silcox - Read ________

"Fathers' Faces" by Robin Wyatt Dunn - Read ________

"Checkmate Charlie" by Gustavo Bondoni - Read ________

"Lirazel's Heart" by Robert B. Finegold - Read ________

"Dressing Mr. Featherbottom" by Amy Sisson - N/A

ANTHOLOGY: Epic: Legends of Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams, 2012.

CONTENTS TO BE ADDED

ANTHOLOGY: The Secret History of Fantasy, edited by Peter S. Beagle, Tachyon Publications, 2010.

1. "Ancestor Money" by Maureen F. McHugh - Read 01-27-16
2. "Scarecrow" by Gregory Maguire
3. "Lady of the Skulls" by Patricia A. McKillip
4. "We Are Norsemen" by T.C. Boyle
5. "The Barnum Museum" by Steven Millhauser
6. "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King - Read 01-28-16
7. "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson
8. "Bone" by Francesca Lia Block - Read 01-29-16
9. "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman
10. "Fruit and Words" by Aimee Bender - Read 02-02-16
11. "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford
12. "The Edge of the World" by Michael Swanwick
13. "Super Goat Man" by Jonathan Lethem - Read 01-27-16
14. "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" by Susanna Clarke
15. "The Book of Martha" by Octavia Butler - Read 02-02-16
16. "The Vita Æterna Mirror Company" by Yann Martel
17. "Sleight of Hand" by Peter S. Beagle
18. "Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock - Read 02-04-16
19. "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson - Read 02-04-16

Appendix 1: "The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Appendix 2: "The Making of the American Fantasy Genre" by David G. Hartwell

ANTHOLOGY: Warrior Women, edited by Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2015

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Swords (& Spears & Arrows & Axes) and Sorcery

1. "Northern Chess" by Tanith Lee
2. "Anukazi's Daughter" by Mary Gentle
3. "Become a Warrior" by Jane Yolen
4. "The Sea Troll's Daugher" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
5. "Joenna's Axe" by Elaine Isaak
6. "Love Among the Talus" by Elizabeth Bear
7. "Soul Case" by Nalo Hopkinson

Just Yesterday & Perhaps Just Beyond Tomorrow
8. "The Girls from Avenger" by Carrie Vaughn
9. "In the Loop" by Ken Liu - Read 02-05-16
10. "Dying with Her Cheer Pants On" by Seanan McGuire - Read 02-10-16
11. "Prayer" by Robert Reed

Somewhere Between Myth & Possibility
12. "England Under the White Witch" by Theodora Goss
13. "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" by George R.R. Martin
14. "The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" by Yoon Ha Lee

Space Aria
15. "Boy Twelve" by Jessica Reisman - Read 02-16-
16. "The Application of Hope" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
17. "Not That Kind of a War" by Tanya Huff
18. "Naratha's Shadow" by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Will No War End All War?
19. "Eaters" by Nancy Kress
20. "And Wash Out by Tides of War" by An Owomoyela
21. "Hand to Hand" by Elizabeth Moon
22. "They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain" by Rachael Acks - Read 02-18-16
23. "Wonder Maul Doll" by Kameron Hurley - Read 02-18-16
24. "The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile" by Aliette de Bodard

I really like what you've done here. I have tons of anthologies, and many in various stages of completion. I've also kind of gotten away from reading anthologies in the last year, but I've always liked them and given I have 248 books in my collection tagged anthology, I think I may steal your idea here and start a thread like this.

>44 LisaMorr:

Please let me know if you do, and give a link so I don't miss your thread!

>45 amysisson: Will do - I think it makes sense to start it in this group. Just need to go pick an anthology and get started!

ANTHOLOGY: Clarkesworld Year Seven, edited by Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace, Wyrm Publishing, 2015

CONTENTS:

1. "The Weight of a Blessing" by Aliette de Bodard - Read 02-21-16
2. "The Urashima Effect" by E. Lily Yu - Read 02-23-16
3. "The Battle of Candle Arc" by Yoon Ha Lee
4. "A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones" by Genevieve Valentine - Read 04-20-16
5. "(To See Each Other) Whole Against the Sky" by E. Catherine Tobler
6. "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution" by A.C. Wise
7. "Gravity" by Erzebet YellowBoy
8. "Vacant Spaces" by Greg Kurzawa
9. "Tachy Psyche" by Andy Dudak
10. "Pockets Full of Stones" by Vajra Chandrasekera
11. "Across the Terminator" by David Tallerman - Read 05-17-16
12. "Your Final Apocolypse" by Sandra McDonald
13. "Shepherds" by Greg Kurzawa
14. "Soulcatcher" by James Patrick Kelly
15. "Cry of the Kharchal" by Vandana Singh
16. "England Under the White Witch" by Theodora Goss
17. "Aquatica" by Maggie Clark
18. "Melt with You" by Emily C. Skaftun
19. "Driftings" by Ian McDonald
20. "Everything Must Go" by Brooke Wonders
21. "Sweet Subtleties" by Lisa L. Hannett
22. "The Wanderers" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
23. "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton's Law Along the Event Horizon" by Helena Bell
24. "I Tell Thee All, I Can No More" by Sunny Moraine
25. "This is Why We Jump" by Jacob Clifton
26. "Free-Fall" by Graham Templeton
27. "No Portraits on the Sky" by Kali Wallace
28. "The Wisdom of Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer
29. "One Flesh" by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne
30. "Found" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
31. "Mar Pacifico" by Greg Mellor
32. "86, 87, 88, 89" by Genevieve Valentine
33. "(R + D)/I = M" by E. Catherine Tobler
34. "Annex" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
35. "The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly
36. "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee

>47 amysisson: Hi Amy - a dumb question for you! How do you insert the stars into your posts?

ETA - Figured it out!

I'm very curious about your process for choosing which stories to read in the anthologies. I especially notice that sometimes you have read a couple from the same anthology on the same day, but they don't appear to be consecutive in the book? (I'm assuming they're listed in page order.) If you don't start at the beginning, and you don't just read favorite authors, how do you select?

I read my anthologies (and all books really) from beginning to end, including the copyright page. I don't feel like it's a book unless it begins with the title and copyright page.

>48 LisaMorr: Glad you figured it out! Sorry to take this long to respond; I wasn't online much this weekend.

>49 macsbrains:

Yes, the stories from the anthologies are listed in page order. I almost never read a story or collection in order, although I'm determined to do so for Clarkesworld Year Seven and the Hannu Rajaniemi collection. Usually, I look at the table of contents and either 1) see if any name there excites me (Ken Liu, Caroline Yoachim, Ted Chiang, or a friend of mine who has a story out); or 2) look for something that seems about the right length of the amount of time I have (such as a lunch break). Sometimes it's based on mood.

In other words, it's pretty haphazard, and it would bother me more except for keeping track of them here on LibraryThing, which irrationally makes me feel better about it because at least I'll be able to see if/when I've finished all the stories in one book. Although I've been finding it hard to find anthologies that are so strong I feel compelled to read all the stories.

Sorry, I can see where this would drive other people nuts!

>50 amysisson: No worries!

I'm enjoying your mini-reviews on your other thread. I don't think I can do justice to that, but I'm happy to start doing some tracking of progress on short stores.

AUDIO COLLECTION: Octopussy and The Living Daylights, and Other Stories by Ian Fleming

1. "Octopussy" - Listened 03-02-16
2. "The Property of a Lady" - Listened 03-03-16
3. "The Living Daylights" - Listened 03-03-16
4. "007 in New York"- Listened 03-04-16

Audiobook finished 03-04-16 - overall rating

AUDIO ANTHOLOGY: Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012

1. "Earth Hour" by Ken MacLeod - Listened 03-27-16
2. "Eve of Sin City" by Sylvia Day - Listened 03-27-16
3. "The President’s Brain is Missing" by John Scalzi - Listened 03-27-16
4. "Overtime" by Charles Stross - Listened 04-05-16
5. "Firstborn" by Brandon Sanderson - Listened 04-12-16
6. "Down on the Farm" by Charles Stross - Listened 04-26-16
7. "After the Coup" by John Scalzi - Listened 05-02-16
8. "The Finite Canvas" by Brit Mandelo - Listened 05-10-16
9. "Swift, Brutal Retaliation" by Meghan McCarron - Listened 05-12-16
10. "Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia" by Rachel Swirsky - Listened 05-19-16

Audiobook finished 05-19-16 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.1)

ANTHOLOGY: Futures from Nature, edited by Henry Gee, Tor, 2007

CONTENTS:

1. "Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb" by Brian Aldiss

...

x.

... "Heartwired" by Joe Haldeman - Read 04-23-16

x. "Don't Mention the 'F' Word" by Neil Mathur - Read 04-22-16

...

(order?

"Party Smart Card" by Barrington J. Bayley - Read 04-28-16

"RAM SHIFT PHASE 2" by Greg Bear - Read 04-28-16

Well, my intentions to read Clarkesworld Year Seven in order just went down the tubes. It didn't help that I wasn't crazy about 3 1/2 of the first 4 stories in the book. In sampling opening paragraphs of later stories, I disliked what felt to me to be "affected" story styles for a bunch of them.

I think I'm just in a bad mood today.

ANTHOLOGY: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins.

CONTENTS:

1. "Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail" by Leigh Bardugo. Read 06-12-16
2. "The End of Love" by Nina LaCour. Read 06-13-16
3. "Last Stand at the Cinegore" by Libba Bray. Read 06-15-16
4. "Sick Pleasure" by Francesca Lia Block. Read 06-15-16
5. "In Ninety Minutes, Turn North" by Stephanie Perkins. Read 06-22-16
6. "Souvenirs" by Tim Federle. Read 06-22-16
7. "Inertia" by Veronica Roth. Read 06-24-16
8. "Love is the Last Resort" by Jon Skovron. Read 06-25-16
9. "Good Luck and Farewell" by Brandy Colbert. Read 06-27-16
10. "Brand New Attraction" by Cassandra Clare. Read 06-27-16
11. "A Thousand Ways This Could All Go Wrong" by Jennifer E. Smith. Read 06-27-16
12. "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" by Lev Grossman. Read 06-28-16

Book finished 06-28-16 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.13)

ANTHOLOGY: Prom Nights from Hell

CONTENTS:

1. "The Exterminator's Daughter" by Meg Cabot. Read 06-14-16
2.
3.
4.
5.

ANTHOLOGY: Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space

CONTENTS:

1. "Escape from Earth" - Allen Steele
2. "Where the Golden Apples Grow" by Kage Baker
3. "Derelict" by Geoffrey A. Landis
4. "Space Boy" by Orson Scott Card
5. "Incarnation Day" by Walter Jon Williams
6. "Combat Shopping" by Elizabeth Moon. Read 07-11-16
7. "The Mars Girl" by Joe Haldeman

ANTHOLOGY: Starlight 1

CONTENTS:

1. "The Dead" by Michael Swanwick. Read 04-21-16
2. "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" by Andy Duncan. Read 08-31-16
3. "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen. Read 04-29-16
4. "The Weighing of Ayre" by Gregory Feeley
5. "Killing the Morrow" by Robert Reed. Read 07-13-16
6. "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" by Susanna Clarke
7. "GI Jesus" by Susan Palwick. Read 07-13-16
8. "Waking Beauty" by Martha Soukup. Read 08-30-16
9. "Mengele's Jew" by Carter Scholz
10. "Erase / Record / Play: A Drama for Print" by John M. Ford
11. "I Remember Angels" by Mark Kreighbaum. Read 04-29-16
12. "The Cost to Be Wise" by Maureen F. McHugh. Read 07-12-16

ANTHOLOGY: Bibliomysteries, edited by Otto Penzler

CONTENTS:

1. "An Acceptable Sacrice" by Jeffery Deaver
2. "Pronghorns of the Third Reich" by C.J. Box
3. "The Book of Virtue" by Ken Bruen
4. "The Book of Ghosts" by Reed Farrel Coleman
5. "The Final Testament" by Peter Blauner
6. "What's in a Name?" by Thomas H. Cook. Read 01-08-18
7. "Book Club" by Loren D. Estleman
8. "Death Leaves a Bookmark" by William Link
9. "The Book Thing" by Laura Lippman. Read 01-03-18
10. "The Scroll" by Anne Perry. Read 01-05-18
11. "It in the Book" by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
12. "The Long Sonata of the Dead" by Andrew Taylor
13. "Rides a Stranger" by David Bell
14. "The Caxton Lending Library & Book Depository" by John Connolly
15. "The Book Case" by Nelson DeMille

COLLECTION: Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

1. "Three Exhausting Weeks" - Read 01-08-18
2. "Christmas Eve 1953" - Read 01-20-18
3. "A Junket in the City of Light" - Read 01-25-18
4. "Our Town Today with Hank Fiset"
5. "An Elephant in the Pressroom"
6. "Welcome to Mars"
7. "A Month on Green Street"
8. "Alan Bean Plus Four" - Read 02-10-15
9. "Our Town Today with Hank Fiset"
10. "At Loose in the Big Apple"
11. "A Special Weekend"
12. "These are the Meditations of my Heart"
13. "Our Town Today with Hank Fiset"
14. "Back from Back in Time"
15. "The Past is Important to Us"
16. "Stay with Us"
17. "Go See Costas"
18. "Our Town Today with Hank Fiset"
19. "Your evangelista, ESPERANZA"
20. "Steve Wong is Perfect"

COLLECTION: Love Has No Resurrection and Other Stories by E.M. Delafield. Published 1939.

CONTENTS:

1. "Love Has No Resurrection" - Read 09-05-18.
2. "Mothers Don't Know Everything" - Read 09-05-18.
3. "O.K. for Story - Read 09-05-18.
4. "It's All Too Difficult" - Read 09-06-18.
5. "The Young Are in Earnest" - Read 09-06-18.
6. "Bluff" - Read 09-06-18.
7. "The Girl Who Told the Truth" - Read 09-06-18.
8. "Victims" - Read 09-07-18.
9. "The Other Poor Chap" - Read 09-07-18.
10. "I Believe in Love" - Read 09-07-18.
11. "It All Came Right in the End" - Read 09-07-18.
12. "Soliloquy Before a Mirror" - Read 09-07-18.
13. "The Reason" - Read 09-10-18.
14. "The Indispensible Woman" - Read 09-10-18.
15. "Opportunity" - Read 09-10-18.
16. "My Son Had Nothing On His Mind" - Read 09-12-18.
17. "They Don't Wear Labels" - Read 09-12-18.

Book finished 09-12-18 - overall rating

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.2; I should round the overall rating down to 3 rather than 3.5, but I actually want to give it a 4 as I enjoyed it so much overall!)

COLLECTION: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan. Published 2004.

CONTENTS:

1. "Singing My Sister Down" - Have read, year unknown.
2. "My Lord's Man" - Read 01-03-19.
3. "Red Nose Day"
4. "Sweet Pippit"
5. "House of the Many" - Read 04-04-20.
6. "Wooden Bride"
7. "Earthly Uses"
8. "Perpetual Light"
9. "Yowlinin"
10. "Rite of Spring"

COLLECTION: Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities by Geoffrey A. Landis. Published 2004.

CONTENTS:

1. "A Walk in the Sun" - Have read, year unknown.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. "Snow" - Read 01-12-19.
9.
10.
11. "What We Really Do Here at NASA" - Read 01-12-19.
12.
13. "Outsider's Chance" - Read 01-13-19.
14.
15.
16.

ANTHOLOGY: End of an Aeon edited by Bridget McKenna & Marti McKenna. Published 2011.

CONTENTS:

1. "Patriot Girls" by Amy Sisson - not rating due to conflict of interest
2. "The True Story of Merganther's Run" by David D. Levine - Read 01-13-19.
3. "Repairs" by T.D. Edge - Read 04-12-20.
4. "Evening in the Land of Dreams" by Mikal Trimm
5. "Pygmalion Redux" by Mikal Trimm
6. "Twilight at the Change House" by Jaine Fenn
7. "Rejection Letter" by Edward Morris
8. "Black Swan, White Swan" by Eugie Foster
9. "The Promise" by Marci Lynn Tentchoff
10. "The Eye Patch Protocol" by Vaughan Stanger
11. "Blue Valentine" by Amanda Downum
12. "Inspection Day" by Gaie Sebold
13. "The Last Jar of Mayo at the H&P" by Jeff Crook
14. "Making Aliens" by Greg Beatty
15. "The Cries of Upward Straining Corpses" by Greg Beatty
16. "Why are You There" by Greg Beatty
17. "The River Came; Fragmented Recall" by Lavid Tidhar
18. "If We Shadows Have Offended" by Sarah L. Edwards
19. "Silverfin Harbor" by Tina Connolly
20. "Bullet" by Marshall Payne

ANTHOLOGY: Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant. Published 1994.

CONTENTS:

1.
2.
3.
4. "Home By the Sea" by Élisabeth Vonarburg - Read 01-27-19.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. "Distant Signals" by Andrew Weiner - Read 01-23-19.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16. "The Reckoning of Gifts" by James Alan Gardner - Read 01-22-19.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24. "Outport" by Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Read 01-22-19.
25.
26.
27. "Ballads in 3/4 Time" by Robert Charles Wilson - Read 01-22-19.
28.

COLLECTION: The Entertainment and Other Stories by E.M. Delafield. Published 1927..

CONTENTS:

1. "The Entertainment" - Read 03-06-19.
2. "The Philistine" - Read 09-??-18 from Project Gutenburg Australia.
3. "O Tempora! O Mores!" - Read 03-06-19.
4. "Incidental" - Read 03-06-19.
5. "The Luggage in the Hall: An Un-moral Story" - Read 03-08-19.
6. "...And Never the Twain Shall Meet" - Read 03-09-19.
7. "Blairgowrie" - Read 03-10-19.
8. "This is One Way Round..." - Read 03-11-19.
9. "The Tortoise" - Read 03-11-19.
10. "Reflex Action" - Read 03-13-19.
11. "Holiday Group" - Read 03-13-19.
12. "The Waiting Lady" - Read 03-15-19.
13. "Terminus" - Read 03-17-19.
14. "A Tale of the Times" - Read 03-18-19.
15. "Reparation" - Read 03-18-19.
16. "The Threshold of Eternity" - Read 03-18-19.

Book finished 03-18-19 -

(Average rating actually comes out to 3.4375; I bumped the overall rating to 4 stars because I really enjoyed the book overall.)

This workaround seems like a lot of work to me... Have you ever thought of using a book tracking app? I think it would make your life easier :) For example I use Bookly; not only it makes tracking books easier, but I also get reports on my performance so I know how fast I'm reading or how long it takes me to finish a book.

COLLECTION: Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Published 2019.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" - Read 09-16-16.
2. "Exhalation" - Original read date unknown; re-read May 2019.
3. "What's Expected of Us" - Read _________.
4. "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" - Read 2010 (as standalone book).
5. "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny" - Read 03-29-20.
6. "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" - Read 01-27-15.
7. "The Great Silence" - Read May 2019.
8. "Omphalos" - Read May 2019. Re-read 03-29-20.
9. "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" - Read 03-31-20.

Book finished ________ -

(Average rating actually comes out to ______)

ANTHOLOGY: Northern Suns: The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant. Published 1999.

CONTENTS:

1.
2.
3.
4. "Doing Time" by Robert Boyczuk - Read 03-31-20.
5. "The Fragrance of Orchids" by Sally McBride - Read 04-01-20.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
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22. (nonfiction essay) (?)

COLLECTION: The Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories by Rosamond Lehmann. Published 1946.

CONTENTS:

1. "The Gipsy's Baby"
2. "The Red-Haired Miss Daintreys"
3. "When the Waters Came" - Read 04-06-20.
4. "A Dream of Winter"
5. "Wonderful Holidays"

ANTHOLOGY: Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, edited by Madeline Ashby and David Nickle.

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Essay: "The Bitch is Dead Now"

1. "One is Sorrow" by Jacqueline Baker
2. "The Gales of the World" by Robert J. Wiersema
3. "Red Indians" by Richard Lee Byers
4. "The Gladiator Lie" by Kelly Robson
5. "Half the Sky" by E.L. Chen
6. "In Havana" by Jeffrey Ford
7. "Mastering the Art of French Killing" by Michael Skeet
8. "A Dirty Business" by Iain McLaughlin
9. "Sorrow's Spy" by Catherine MacLeod
10. "Mosaic" by Karl Schroeder
11. "The Spy Who Remembered Me" by James Alan Gardner - Read 04-15-20.
12.

ANTHOLOGY: Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, edited by Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman. Published 2019.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: The Future is Made of Choices

1. "Mother of Invention" by Nnedi Okorafor
2. "No Me Dejes" by Mark Oshiro
3. "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis" by Annalee Newitz
4. "When We Were Patched" by Deji Bryce Olukotun - Read 09-25-2021.
5. "Domestic Violence" by Madeline Ashby
6. "Mr. Thursday" by Emily St. John Mandel - Read 09-15-2021.
7. "A Brief and Fearful Star" by Carmen Maria Machado
8. "Overvalued" by Mark Stasenko
9. "Safe Surrender" by Meg Eilison
10. "Lions and Gazelles" by Hannu Rajaniemi - Read 09-24-2021.
11. "Burned-Over Territory" by Lee Konstantinou
12. "Mika Model" by Paolo Bacigalupi
13. "The Starfish Girl" by Maureen McHugh
14. "The Minnesota Diet" by Charlie Jane Anders

ANTHOLOGY: Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, edited by Jaym Gates & Monica Valentinelli. Apex, 2016.

CONTENTS:

Introduction by Jerry Gordon

SECTION I: INVERTING THE TROPES (stories)

1. "On Loving Bad Boys: A Villanelle" by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
2. "Single, Singularity" by John Horner Jacobs
3. "Lazzrus" by Nisi Shawl
4. "Seeking Truth" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry - Read 02-02-2022.
5. "Thwock" by Michelle Muenzler
6. "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Paprika Place?" by Michael R. Underwood - Read 01-29-2022.
7. "Chosen" by Anton Strout
8. "The White Dragon" by Alyssa Wong
9. "Her Curse, How Gently It Comes Undone" by Haralambi Markov
10. "Burning Bright" by Shanna Germain - Read 01-27-2022.
11. "Santa CIS (Episode 1: No Saint)" by Alethea Kontis - Read 02-04-2022.
12. "Requiem for a Manic Pixie Dream" by Katy Harrad & Greg Stolze
13. "The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend" by Adam-Troy Castro
14. "The First Blood of Poppy Dupress" by Delilah S. Dawson
15. "Red Light" by Sara M. Harvey - Read 02-03-2022.
16. "Until There is Only Hunger" by Michael Matheson
17. "Super Duper Fly" by Maurice Broaddus - Read 02-02-2022.
18. "Drafty as a Chain Mail Bikini" by Kat Richardson
19. "Swan Song" by Michelle Lyons-McFarland
20. "Those Who Leave" by Michael Choi
21. "Nouns of Nouns: A Mini Epic" by Alex Shvartsman
22. "Excess Light" by Rahul Kanakia
23. "The Origin of Terror" by Sunil Patel
24. "The Tangled Web" by Ferrett Steinmetz - Read 01-31-2022.
25. "Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa, Tfu, Tfu, Tfu" by Alisa Schreibman
26. "Real Women are Dangerous" by Rati Mehrotra

SECTION II: DISCUSSING THE TROPES (essays)

1. "I'm Pretty Sure I've Read This Before" by Patrick Hester
2. "Fractured Souls" by Lucy A. Snyder
3. "Into the Labyrinth: The Heroine's Journey" by A.C. Wise
4. "Escaping the Hall of Mirrors" by Victor Raymond
5. "Tropes as Erasers: A Transgender Perspective" by Keffy R.M. Kehrli

SECTION III: DEFINING THE TROPES

Afterword by Monica Valentinelli & Jaym Gates
Trope Definitions/Index of Tropes

SECTION IV: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND ADDITIONAL BIOS

ANTHOLOGY: Dreaming Down Under, edited by Jack Dann & Janeen Webb. Reprint edition, Tor 2001. (Original edition Voyager, 1998)

CONTENTS:

Preface by Harlan Ellison

Introduction by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb

1. "Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)" by Sean Williams
2. "The Dancing Floor" by Cherry Wilder
3. "Descent" by Cecily Scutt
4. "The Soldier in the Machine" by Russell Blackford
5. "Mathilda Told Such Dreadful Lies" by Lucy Sussex
6. "The Womb" by Damien Broderick
7. "A Walk-On Part in the War" by Stephen Dedman
8. "Wired Dreaming" by Paul Collins - Read 02-04-2022.
9. "The Body Politic" by Tess Williams
10. "The Truth About Weena" by David J. Lake
11. "The Marsh Runners" by Paul Brandon
12. "Prelude to a Nocture" by Rowena Cory Lindquist
13. "Real Men" by Rosaleen Love
14. "The Latest Dream I Ever Dreamed" by Norman Talbot
15. "Ma Rung" by Steven Paulsen
16. "Dream, Until God Burns" by Andrew Enstice
17. "Night of the Wandjina" by Wynne Whiteford
18. "To Avalon" by Jane Routley
19. "He Tried to Catch the Light" by Terry Dowling
20. "The Third Rail" by Aaron Sterns
21. "Jetsam" by Kerry Greenwood
22. "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" by George Turner
23. "The Man Who Lost His Shadow" by Isobelle Carmody
24. "Unborn Again" by Chris Lawson
25. "The Evil Within" by Sara Douglass
26. "Two Recipes for Magic Beans" by Rosaleen Love
27. "The Doppelgänger Effect" by Dirk Strasser
28. "Tamed" by Robert Hood
29. "Queen of Soulmates" by Sean McMullen
30. "The Last Dance" by Ian Nichols
31. "With Clouds at Our Feet" by Simon Brown

ANTHOLOGY: Some of the Best of Tor.com, 2021 edited by Ruoxi Chen, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Emily Goldman, Jonathan Strahan, Lee Harris, Ann VanderMeer, and Lindsey Hall. Tor, 2022.

CONTENTS:

1. “Masquerade Season” by 'Pemi Aguda - Read 02-19-2022.
2. “The Lay of Lilyfinger” by G. V. Anderson - Read 02-13-2022.
3. “The Red Mother” by Elizabeth Bear - Read 02-20-2022.
4. “The Tinder Box” by Kate Elliott - Read 02-22-2022.
5. “Questions Asked in the Belly of the World” by Aliza Greenblatt - Read 02-11-2022.
6. "Black Leg" by Glen Hirshberg
7. “The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie” by Kathleen Jennings
8. “Blood in the Thread” by Cheri Kamei
9. “Sand” by Jasmin Kirkbride
10. “Now We Paint Worlds” by Matthew Kressel
11. “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” by Usman T. Malik
12. “Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller
13. “#Selfcare” by Annalee Newitz
14. “The Far Side of the Universe” by noc
15. “A Better Way of Saying” by Sarah Pinsker
16. “Baby Teeth” by Daniel Polansky
17. “The Future Library” by Peng Shepherd
18. “Aptitude” by Cooper Shrivastava
19. “Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels” by Lavie Tidhar
20. “L’Esprit de L’Escalier” by Catherynne M. Valente
21. “An Easy Job” by Carrie Vaughn
22. “Small Monsters” by E. Lily Yu

AUDIO ANTHOLOGY: Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic

CONTENTS

1. "The Palmist" by Andrew Lam, read by James Naughton
2. "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, read by Stephen Colbert
3. "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, read by John Lithgow
4. "The Occasional Garden" by Saki, read by Daniel Gerroll - Listened 03-09-2022
5. "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme, read by Maria Tucci
6. "The Year of Silence" by Kevin Brockmeier, read by Anthony Rapp
7. "The Sixth Borough" by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jerry Zaks - Listened 03-06-2022
8. "Drunken Mimi" by Aimee Bender, read by Bernadette Quigley - Listened 03-06-2022
9. "The Little Green Monster" by Haruki Murakami, read by Dana Ivey - Listened 03-08-2022
10. "Swept Away" by T.C. Boyle, read by René Auberjonois - Listened 03-09-2022

COLLECTION: Messalina of the Suburbs (and Other Stories) by E.M. Delafield. Published 1924.

CONTENTS:

1. "Messalina of the Suburbs" - Read 02-08-23.
2. "The Bond of Union" - Read 12-08-23.
3. "Lost in Transmission"
4. "Time Works Wonders"
5. "The Gallant Little Lady"
6. "The Hotel Child"
7. "Impasse"
8. "The Appeal"
9. "The First Stone"