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Southside Reads: Recommended Reads

Short Stories (May 2025)

Welcome to Southside Reads! We’re challenging you to read a variety of books in 2025 by assigning a different category to every month, but don’t worry! The categories are broad enough to put your own spin on them.

For May, the theme is Short Stories. You can read an anthology, read a short novel, or even read a book by an author's whose last name is Short! Get creative! Go out and find a book, but if you want some suggestions to get you thinking, check out the list below (with information about local library availability*):

All Aunt Hagar's Children book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Uncle Tom's Children book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Breaking Through book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Toughest Indian in the World book cover with link to Goodreads description page
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Bloodchild and Other Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Refugees book cover with link to Goodreads description page
New Testaments: Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
This Is How You Lose Her book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Code Noir: Fictions book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Los Muertos: Day of the Dead Fiction book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Obligations to the Wounded: Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Who Will Bury You?: And Other Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
To the Kennels: And Other Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Reservoir Bitches book cover with link to Goodreads description page

Key for Local Library Availability

Locations:

  • CVRL - Central Virginia Regional Library
  • LU - Longwood University: Greenwood Library
  • HSC - Hampden-Sydney College: Bortz Library

Services:

*LU Libby/Overdrive is available for current students, faculty and staff only.