Beginning in 2011, I started to read/re-read all of Alice Munro’s short stories in their collected form.

Please feel free to check the schedule and join in, for the series, or for a single story.

Sometimes the posts (particularly early in the project) have only a couple of quotes from each story and brief reading notes about the experience of reading them

Other times there is more of a concrete analysis of the story and its inner workings. (But the analysis is never very detailed because I keep the discussion spoiler-free.)

Sometimes I refer to outside sources, and other times other readers do that in the comments.

Dance of the Happy Shades 1968
Walker Brothers Cowboy; The Shining Houses; Images
Thanks for the ride; The Office; An Ounce of Cure
The Time of Death; Day of the Butterfly; Boys and Girls
Postcard; Red Dress – 1946; Sunday Afternoon 
A Trip to the Coast; The Peace of Utrecht; Dance of the Happy Shades

Lives of Girls and Women  1971
The Flats Road; Heirs of the Living Body
Princess Ida; Age of Faith
Changes and Ceremonies; Lives of Girls and Women
Baptizing; Epilogue: The Photographer

Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You  1974
Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You; Material
How I Met My Husband;  Walking on Water; Forgiveness in Families
Tell Me Yes or No; The Found Boat; Executioners; Marrakesh
The Spanish Lady; Winter Wind; Memorial; The Ottawa Valley

Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) 1977
Royal Beatings 
Privilege
Half a Grapefruit
Wild Swans
The Beggar Maid
Mischief
Providence
Simon’s Luck
Spelling 
Who Do You Think You Are?

The Moons of Jupiter  1982
Chaddeleys and Flemings 1. Connection 2. The Stone in the Field
Dulse
The Turkey Season
Accident
Bardon Bus
Prue 
Labor Day Dinner
Mrs Cross and Mrs Kidd
Hard-Luck Stories
Visitors
The Moons of Jupiter

The Progress of Love  1986
The Progress of Love
Lichen
Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux
Miles City, Montana
Fits
The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink
Jesse And Meribeth
Eskimo
A Queer Streak
Circle of Prayer
White Dump

Dear Life  2012
To Reach Japan
Amundsen
Leaving Maverley
Gravel
Random House, 2012Haven
Pride
Corrie
Train
In Sight of the Lake
Dolly
The Eye
Night
Voices
Dear Life

Friend of My Youth  1990
Friend of My Youth
Five Points
Meneseteung
Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass
Oranges and Apples
Pictures of the Ice
Goodness and Mercy
Oh, What Avails

1994; Penguin, 2007

Differently
Wigtime

Open Secrets  1994
Carried Away
A Real Life
The Albanian Virgin
Open Secrets
The Jack Randa Hotel
A Wilderness Station
Spaceships Have Landed
Vandals

The Love of a Good Woman  1998

The Love of a Good Woman
Jakarta
Cortes Island
Save the Reaper
Love Good Woman MunroThe Children Stay
Rich as Stink
Before the Change
My Mother’s Dream

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage 2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Floating Bridge
Family Furnishings
Comfort
Nettles
Post and Beam
What Is Remembered
Queenie
The Bear Came Over the Mountain (Film “Away from Her”)

Runaway 2004
Runaway
Chance
Soon
Silence
Passion
Trespasses
Tricks
Powers

The View from Castle Rock 2006
No Advantages
The View from Castle Rock
Illinois
The Wilds of Morris Township
Working for a Living
Fathers
Lying Under the Apple Tree
Hired Girl
The Ticket
Home
What Do You Want to Know For?
Messenger

Too Much Happiness 2009
Dimensions
Fiction
Wenlock Edge
Deep-Holes
Free Radicals
Face
Some Women
Child’s Play
Wood
Too Much Happiness