• 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 and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (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)

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."^[1]

• Review by Tom Easton (1981) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 12, 1981^[2]
• Review by James J. J. Wilson (1981) in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1981
• Review by John Clute (1982) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1982
• Review by K. V. Bailey (1986) in Paperback Inferno, #58