No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (classified as a novel but it’s short and an easy read)
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I always really liked old plays. Tennessee Williams and Henrick Ibsen are two of my favorites. Most plays are less than 200 pages long and are great, it’s just not a novelization.
Kafka and Borges have short stories that are really good too!
DepartureTight7771 on
Cabal by Clive Barker – possibly even better the Nightbreed (the movie made from this-and only the Cabal cut). Shows how that which looks horrific to the “normals” may be the only thing that is truly pure.
MelnikSuzuki on
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers
PoorPauly on
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Notes From Underground
Siddhartha
Candide
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Pretty much everything by Joseph Conrad (As a Dos fan, you’ll love it). Anything by Jack London. More contemporary: Shirley Jackson (tons of existential dread), Kurt Vonnegut (existential dread and a few laughs), J. G. Ballard (Weird and brooding). Novellas and short stories are a great rabbit hole to fall down into. Enjoy.
BernardFerguson1944 on
Mark Twain:
· *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*.
· *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*.
Charles Dickens:
· *A Christmas Carol*.
· *Hard Times*.
· *A Tale of Two Cities*.
*The Red Badge of Courage* by Stephen Crane.
*Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad.
*All Quiet on the Western Front* by Erich Maria Remarque.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
· *The Great Gatsby*.
· *Echoes of the Jazz Age*.
George Orwell:
· *Nineteen Eighty-Four.*
· *Animal Farm*
· *Down and Out in Paris and London.*
· *Hommage to Catalonia*
· *The Road to Wigan Pier.*
Aldous Huxley:
· *Brave New World*.
· *The Doors of Perception*.
*Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad.
*To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee.
John Steinbeck:
· *The Grapes of Wrath*.
· *Cannery Row*.
*All the King’s Men* by Robert Penn Warren.
Ernest Hemingway:
· *The Sun Also Rises*.
· *A Farewell to Arms*.
· *For Whom the Bell Tolls*.
*Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death* by Kurt Vonnegut.
*Fahrenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury.
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Kawabata’s *Snow Country*.
Ok-Cheetah-9125 on
The Things They Carried is short and stuck with me for years.
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No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (classified as a novel but it’s short and an easy read)
I always really liked old plays. Tennessee Williams and Henrick Ibsen are two of my favorites. Most plays are less than 200 pages long and are great, it’s just not a novelization.
Kafka and Borges have short stories that are really good too!
Cabal by Clive Barker – possibly even better the Nightbreed (the movie made from this-and only the Cabal cut). Shows how that which looks horrific to the “normals” may be the only thing that is truly pure.
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Notes From Underground
Siddhartha
Candide
Pretty much everything by Joseph Conrad (As a Dos fan, you’ll love it). Anything by Jack London. More contemporary: Shirley Jackson (tons of existential dread), Kurt Vonnegut (existential dread and a few laughs), J. G. Ballard (Weird and brooding). Novellas and short stories are a great rabbit hole to fall down into. Enjoy.
Mark Twain:
· *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*.
· *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*.
Charles Dickens:
· *A Christmas Carol*.
· *Hard Times*.
· *A Tale of Two Cities*.
*The Red Badge of Courage* by Stephen Crane.
*Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad.
*All Quiet on the Western Front* by Erich Maria Remarque.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
· *The Great Gatsby*.
· *Echoes of the Jazz Age*.
George Orwell:
· *Nineteen Eighty-Four.*
· *Animal Farm*
· *Down and Out in Paris and London.*
· *Hommage to Catalonia*
· *The Road to Wigan Pier.*
Aldous Huxley:
· *Brave New World*.
· *The Doors of Perception*.
*Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad.
*To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee.
John Steinbeck:
· *The Grapes of Wrath*.
· *Cannery Row*.
*All the King’s Men* by Robert Penn Warren.
Ernest Hemingway:
· *The Sun Also Rises*.
· *A Farewell to Arms*.
· *For Whom the Bell Tolls*.
*Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death* by Kurt Vonnegut.
*Fahrenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury.
Kawabata’s *Snow Country*.
The Things They Carried is short and stuck with me for years.
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