My last two reads were East of Eden and The Secret History, which I enjoyed. But I’d like to reset with a shorter read. I’m thinking less than 300 pages.
I’m usually into literary fiction, horror, and historical fiction. But I can be convinced on just about anything.
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{{ Fight Club }} by Chuck Palahniuk
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
(I say this to everyone! lol!)
My Antonia
*Connivence Store Woman* by Sayaka Murata.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
It’s historical fiction. Probably one of the most powerful short novel I’ve ever read.
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck hits the horror requirement, is only 110 pages, and is an excellent read.
Albert Camus: the Outsider
Of Mice and Men
Many of Stephen King’s novellas are fabulous – look at Different Seasons and Full Dark, No Stars
Cannery Row
Night by Elie Wiesel. Short but powerful.
If you liked East of Eden try The Moon is Down by Steinbeck. Only like 120 pages I think.
{{Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds}}
The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. It’s an incredibly bizarre but equally addictive read; the first half is a hallucinatory horror, and then the second half a cosmic horror. I’ve never read anything quite like it, and it’s one that I still think about regularly. It’s only 152 pages, so very short.