I need to read 3 more books to reach my reading goal for 2023. I spent a LOT of time on door stoppers this year like Gone with the Wind, Crime and Punishment and the GOT series, so I’m looking for any recommendations for great, yet easily digestible books. Thank you in advance!
by Oshioki108
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Three short reads:
{{A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck}}. Classified as horror, but it’s not scary. Guy ends up in hell and has to (essentially) read his way out. Couldn’t stop thinking about this one for a week.
{{The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz}}. Short, cozy read about a robot tech and an outdated AI robot who owns a cafe. Cute romance ensues, LGBTQ+.
{{Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi}}. Woman lies about being pregnant at work, almost as an experiment, and then has to sustain the lie while enjoying the “perks” of (non)pregnant life.
Since you didn’t specify in depth your preferences, here are some ones that I liked:
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Candide by Voltaire
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Sula by Toni Morrison
A short read I just read was Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, i thought it was a calming and cozy read similiar almost to a ghibli movie but without the magic if youre into that 🙂 didnt take me long to finish at all
If This Is A Man – Primo Levi
{{Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky}}
Go for a short story collection. I’ll recommend
{{A backpack filled with sunsets}}
Some novellas that I’ve loved recently since other preferences weren’t specified;
{{This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone}}
{{Piranesi by Susanna Clark}}
{{Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers}}
{{Thornhedge by T Kingfisher}}
{{What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher}}
If you like horror, {{Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw}}
Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Old Man and the Sea, The Little Prince, Convenience Store Woman
A Psalm for the Wild Built
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Weyward
John Steinbeck: Of Mice And Men, The Perl, Tortilla Flats, Cannery Row, The Moon Is Down
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess