Welcome to the sub!
“I’ll give you a programme to follow every night. Very simple programme. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed every night, read one short story. That will take you ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Okay? Then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry. Stay away from most modern poems. It’s crap. It’s not poetry. Now, if you want to kid yourself and write lines that look like poems, go ahead and do it, but you’ll go nowhere. But read the great poets. Go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. But one poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights.”
— Ray Bradbury (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-r7ABrMYU 8:45)
Since Bradbury pronounced this grand challenge in 2001, writers across the world have scrambled to libraries and bookstores in search of 1000 nights worth of quality reading.
The task is monumental. One risks spending more time searching than reading. I considered building a website, but, besides my complete lack of programming skills, I feel that a subreddit — one where writers and readers can discuss what they're planning to read — is far more inspiring than the upchuck of a pseudorandomiser in javascript.
Much like meal prepping, I plan on posting a weekly sticky thread with several short stories, poems, and essays. The comments can be place to discuss what we liked/disliked about the works and where we are at with our own writing.
I hope others find this to be a useful resource. If you know of any public-domain websites where one can find great stories, poems and essays, please do not hesitate to post them here and I will add them to the sidebar.