Reading Challenge: Deal Me In

My intention was not to make any big reading commitments this year.  However....  ;)  when I saw this intriguing challenge over at Behold the Stars and Classical Carousel, it just looked too fun (and feasible) not to join!

The challenge is hosted at Bibliophilica, and it's quite simple.  You create a list of 52 short stories and assign each to a playing card.  Then, every week of 2015, draw a card randomly and read the story that corresponds.

Here is the master list, which is 1/4 essays and includes one or two poems.  When building this list, I was a little shocked at how many short stories I had already read, and at how many classics I should have read but never did.  In the end, I had to consult some "top 10" types of lists online, to fill all the places, and some of these choices I know next to nothing about...  I made myself refrain from adding re-reads (apart from a few, like Poe's Dupin stories), so hopefully this will be a good foray into new authors, eras, and ideas.

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A – Snow White - Grimm
2 – The Minotaur - Hawthorne
3 – The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights - Pushkin
4 – The Golden Fleece - Hawthorne
5 – The Little Mermaid - Andersen
6 – The Shadow - Andersen
7 – Hansel and Gretel - Grimm
8 – Ashputtle (Cinderella) - Grimm
9 – The Fir Tree - Andersen
10 – Beauty and the Beast - Beaumont
J – The Prince Who Feared Nothing - Grimm
Q – The Snow Queen - Andersen
K – King Thrushbeard - Grimm

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A – The Argonauts of the Air - Wells
2 – A Country Doctor - Kafka
3 – The Adventure of the German Student - Irving
4 – The Mystery of Marie Roget - Poe
5 – The Artist of the Beautiful - Hawthorne
6 – The Purloined Letter - Poe
7 – The Country of the Blind - Wells
8 – The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe
9 – A Sound of Thunder - Bradbury
10 – My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Hawthorne
J – The Masque of Red Death - Poe
Q – The Last Question - Asimov
K – William Wilson - Poe

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A – The Old Manse - Hawthorne
2 – A Little Woman - Kafka
3 – The Nightingale and the Rose - Wilde
4 – Eleonora - Poe
5 – A Virtuoso's Collection - Hawthorne
6 – Wedding Preparations in the Country - Kafka
7 – The Lady with the Dog - Chekhov
8 – Regret - Kate Chopin
9 – The Necklace - Maupassant
10 – The Looking-Glass - Chekhov
J – The Snow-Image - Hawthorne
Q – The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov
K – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Bierce

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A – Symposium - Plato
2 – Nature - Emerson
3 – On Heroes and Hero-Worship - Carlyle
4 – In Defense of Sanity - Chesterton
5 – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau
6 – Common Sense - Paine
7 – On Evil Euphemisms - Chesterton
8 – The Twelve Men - Chesterton
9 – The Death of a Moth - Woolf
10 – Self-Reliance - Emerson
J – Camping Out - Hemingway
Q – Circles - Emerson
K – The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Hemingway

Some of these are a bit long, and others are extremely short.  It will be interesting to see how this goes. I should also mention that, for convenience, these are all stories I own or are instantly available, else I would have included some Louis L'Amour and other to-reads.  ;)