I’m a fairly busy student, but I love to keep some type of paperback on me to read between classes/on break/with some coffee/etc. It dosen’t have to be super short, but I do like something small enough to comfortably stick in a tote bag to read a little of whenever I can. It also doesn’t have to be fiction, or even a proper novel- just something good/entertaining to read that’s on the shorter side. I just recently finished (and really enjoyed) 12 Angry Men, Parable of the Sower, Notes of a Crocodile, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, I’m currently reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and my favorite books of all time are Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Any recommendations would be appreciated, thank you!
by throwaway717713
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I keep recommending the Murderbot series, and I’ll keep recommending it because it’s short and wonderful.
But also – have you considered an eReader? They work great with the library and are smaller than most books and then you’ll always have something on hand.
Anything by Toni Morrison.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Short stories might work:
[Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5439.Interpreter_of_Maladies)
[Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60206505-seven-empty-houses?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18)
Needle in a Haystack by Casey Jordan.
Nonfiction, short, interesting, and emotional read.
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Ice by Anna Kavan
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis by Kafka
Kindred by Octavia Butler
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Franny & Zooey by Salinger