Flannery O'Connor's first short story accumulation, written in 1955, will thump you off your feet. Merciless, entering, and stacked with subtext, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories was overcome for its chance and feels similarly as important today. Writing in the Southern Gothic custom in a style entirely her own, O'Connor makes characters that are confused, hindered interests, yet she figures out how to catch what's human in even the most abhorrent of individuals — which influences their destined directions to feel all the more appalling. What's more, regardless of the exasperating occasions that unfurl, the stories are a delight to peruse — they're injected with tension, dull diversion, and the absolute most suggestive symbolism you'll experience in writing. This makes for a gathering that never stops to astonish — and asks to be rehash.

– Renee P.