The Stories (and Their Respective Holidays)
- Date Due (No holiday assigned)
- A story hidden in the introduction about a University student who steals books from his University Library.
- "How the Whip Came Back" (Lincoln's Birthday)
- "Of Relays and Roses" (Valentine's Day)
- "Paul's Treehouse" (Arbor Day)
- "St. Brandon" (St. Patrick's Day)
- "Beautyland" (Earth Day)
- "Car Sinister" (Mother's Day)
- "The Blue Mouse" (Armed Forces Day)
- "How I Lost the Second World War" (Memorial Day)
- "The Adopted Father" (Father's Day)
- "Forlesen" (Labor Day)
- "An Article About Hunting" (The first day of hunting season)
- "The Changeling" (Homecoming Day)
- "Many Mansions" (Halloween)
- "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" (Armistice Day)
- "Three Million Square Miles" (Thanksgiving)
- "The War Beneath the Tree" (Christmas Eve)
- "La Befana" (Christmas Day)
- "Melting" (New Year's Eve)
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Read more about this topic: Gene Wolfe's Book Of Days
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