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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead is 587 pages, about 10 hours 46 minutes at 250 words a minute.

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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis, Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George W. Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H. P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F. M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath, Isabel Allende 9.8 h

A Rose for Emily William Faulkner 2.7 h

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Winston S. Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Truman Capote, Fredric Brown, Ed Mcbain, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Russell, Robert Phillips, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Slesar, Adobe James, Robert Silverberg, John Lutz, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur Porges, Elizabeth Morton, Jack Dann, Theodore Cogswell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Robert Scheckley, Barry N. Malzberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, Arthur L. Samuels, Edward D. Hoch, William F. Nolan 11.0 h

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill, Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Margaret Atwood 17.1 h

Understanding Fiction -- Second Edition Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Francis Parkman, Christopher Sykes, Mark Twain, Peter Quennell, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, O. Henry, John Collier, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Ring Lardner, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, James Purdy, Caroline Gordon, Mary Mc Carthy, Carson McCullers, Honoré de Balzac, Jesse Stuart, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, William Sansom, Colette, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Dino Buzzati, Marcel Aymé, Thomas Mann, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter 12.6 h

Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Dreiser, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Stephen King 11.0 h

The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 10.0 h

Trigger Warning Neil Gaiman 6.5 h

Eva Luna Isabel Allende 5.3 h

Love Toni Morrison 3.8 h

A Secret Splendor Sandra Brown 5.5 h

The Tea Rose Jennifer Donnelly 13.9 h

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