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Open thread: Which stories would you like to hear writers read?

Julian Barnes
Squaring up to Hemingway ... Julian Barnes

Every day in the run-up to Christmas, listen to some of our best writers reading and discussing short stories by masters of the form, beginning tomorrow with Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and continuing with William Boyd tackling JG Ballard on Sunday. In tomorrow's Guardian Review the writers explain their choices. Please tell us your favourite stories, and what you would most like to hear read and by whom - and we will do our very best to arrange for it to be recorded, hopefully before Christmas (no promises!)

Here's the list of the readings coming up:

Philip Pullman The Beauties, by Anton Chekhov (Saturday December 11)
Willliam Boyd My Dream of Flying to Wake Island, by JG Ballard (Sunday 12 December)
Anne Enright Fat, by Raymond Carver (Monday 13 December)
Colm Tóibín Music at Annahullion, by Eugene McCabe (Tuesday 14 December)
Margaret Drabble The Doll's House, by Katherine Mansfield (Wednesday 15 December)
Jeanette Winterson The Night Driver, by Italo Calvino (Thursday 16 December)
Rose Tremain Extra, by Yiyun Li (Friday 17 December)
Julian Barnes Homage to Switzerland, by Ernest Hemingway (Saturday 18 December)
Tessa Hadley The Jungle, by Elizabeth Bowen (Sunday 19 December)
Helen Dunmore My Oedipus Complex, by Frank O'Connor (Monday 20 December)
Ali Smith Conversation with My Father, by Grace Paley (Tuesday 21 December)
Helen Simpson The Kitchen Child, by Angela Carter (Wednesday 22 December)

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