Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

Gene Wolfe's Book of Days is a short story collection by American science fiction author Gene Wolfe published in 1981 by Doubleday.
The stories within the collection are each paired with a holiday within the calendar year that is thematically linked to the content of the story. Thus, a story about the resurgence of slavery is dedicated to Lincoln's Birthday.
The material here was combined with The Castle of the Otter to make the volume Castle of Days.

The stories (and their respective holidays)

Date Due
* A story hidden in the introduction about a University student who steals books from his University Library.
"How the Whip Came Back"
"Of Relays and Roses"
"Paul's Treehouse"
"St. Brandon"
"Beautyland"
"Car Sinister"
"The Blue Mouse"
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion"
"The Adopted Father"
"Forlesen"
"An Article About Hunting"
"The Changeling"
"Many Mansions"
"Against the Lafayette Escadrille"
"Three Million Square Miles"
"The War Beneath the Tree"
"La Befana"
"Melting"

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed Gene Wolfe's Book of Days for White Dwarf #72, and stated that "Unclassifiable... some straight-forward, some worrying, some enigmatic and elusive, but all beautifully written."

Reviews

Review by Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 12, 1981
Review by James J. J. Wilson in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1981
Review by John Clute in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1982
Review by K. V. Bailey in Paperback Inferno, #58