I have a goal of 52 books this year and I’m at 40. I’m reading some longer books but I’d like to also read shorter literary fiction or contemporary or poetry in parallel, so I can reach my goal. Short books I’ve liked so far include Tin Man, Open Water, Lie to Me, Serious Concerns (poetry), Small things like these, and some YA books like Turtles all the way down.
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Outline by Rachel Cusk (my edition is about 225 pages but the font size is pretty huge so it’d be well under 200 pages if it had a standard font size)
Lol I am guilty of the same thing. How about Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Goodbye again by Jonny sun.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
The Cloven Viscount, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Envy, Yuri Olesha
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran was short and interesting.
Red Pony by Steinbeck is quick
My favourite short literary fiction books:
The Spider’s Web by Joseph Roth (112 pages)
But Crime Does Punish by Jan Johanides (112 pages)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (79 pages)
The Time Machine by HG Wells (118 pages)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabakov (143 pages)