I finished my last planned book of November a day early and I want to squeeze in a quick read before starting my December list. Any genre, read in a day to me means 50-200ish pages. Bonus points for classics, as I don’t read enough of them. Thank you!
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The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Last night at the lobster
The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
Notes from Underground – Dostoevsky
The Stranger by Albert Camus
I don’t have classics recs, but I have plenty of fantasy:
– Spear by Nicola Griffith (feminist sapphic retelling of one of the King Arthurian myths)
– This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (can’t tell you anything except it’s a love story and it’s about time travel without spoiling it, but it’s absolutely beautiful)
– Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (historical fantasy pulling from Irish mythos and just-before Industrial revolution time period)
– The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (I don’t like anything Gaiman wrote except this, which is heart-wrenchingly beautiful. It’s about an older man reflecting on his childhood growing up in the countryside of mid-20th century England and the magic he encountered there: pulls from Slavic mythology)
– A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Leguin (Classic high fantasy, but SUCH beautiful writing and inventive worldbuilding)
– Any Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett! They tend towards the 250 page range but they’re such fun, and they’re really quick reads.