The Lottery – 5/5 Stars This remains one of my favorite books ever, and is one of the very best story collections (published as a collection) that I’ve ever read to. These stories hang on to each other so well, and there’s a few stories with lightness and levity (like “Charles” obviously, but also “The Witch”) and the obvious and patently sinister ones like “The Lottery” as well as the ones where the sinister edge cuts through only at the margins almost illegibly so. I […]
He was just tight enough and just familiar enough with the house to be able to go out in the kitchen alone, apparently to get ice, but actually to sober up a little; he was not quite enough of a friend of the family to pass out on the living-room couch.
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson
Virgins by Diana Gabaldon