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The 1st tale in SHORT STORIES: 5 DECADES is "The 80-Yard Run," a masterpiece about the tragedy of living an unexamined life. And yet there are works just as good throughout this beast of a book. He lost nothing off his fastball in 50 years! #2015top5

When Boston played Cleveland in Fenway, I thought it would be great to get a chant started: "your river caught on fire." That's harder to get going than The Wave though, and after SLICED BREAD, I don't have the heart to taunt Cleveland. #2015top5

Some of the best historical fiction ever written. Aubrey-Maturin may be even more fun to read about than Holmes-Watson. I've been reading two a year and am now exactly halfway through the series. #2015top5

Using the inexplicable death of a teenage girl as her leaping off point, Ng shows the reader how the individual threads of half a dozen disparate storylines may be braided together to make a hangman's noose. #2015top5

A perfect Hitchcockian nightmare (tho Fritz Lang directed the adaptation), set in the darkest days of the Blitz & written while the bombs were still falling. Dunno how he did it. I can't even write when the kids are yelling in the next room.#2015top5