Are you looking for a book club but don't have the time for a whole book? Join us for our short fiction reading group. Each month we'll read a different short story at home and discuss it in the library.
The texts cover a variety of topics, genres and authors. We'll discuss what we liked, what we didn't like and what the stories made us think about.
Call 9355 4200 to register your interest.
Print copies of all stories are available at Fawkner Library. Some stories are available online and are linked below.
Stories for 2024
18 January · City Of Spectres · Bandi
15 February · The Disappearing · Joyce Carol Oates
21 March · The Man Who Walked Through Walls · Marcel Aymé
18 April · Nine Days · Laura Jean McKay
16 May · The Paper Menagerie · Ken Liu
20 June · The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World · Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18 July · Simulacrum · Else Fitzgerald
15 August · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver
19 September · Daughters Of The Moon · Italo Calvino
17 October · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe
21 November · Exhalation · Ted Chiang
19 December · To Build A Fire · Jack London
Previous stories 2023
20 April · The Library of Babel · Jorge Luis Borges
18 May · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson
15 June · Good Country People · Flannery O'Connor
20 July · I Am a Cat/Chapter 1 · Natsume Soseki
17 August · Araby · James Joyce
21 September · Youth · Isaac Asimov
19 October · Kashtanka · Anton Chekov
16 November · The Garden Party · Katherine Mansfield
21 December · The Speckled Band · Arthur Conan Doyle
