Looking for good/must read books that are around 100-200 pages in length, that I can read in a couple of days.
Noteable short books i've read the last couple weeks: Machiavelli The prince, Nausea Sartre, The PLague Camus(didn't fancy too much), Communist manifesto, Notes from the underground, Hunger Hamsund.
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The Death of Ivan Illych
The Turn of the Screw
Thanks for the suggestions, I will look for them at the library. I'm pretty sure I will find the Tolstoy book at least.
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open invitation to other anons to share stuff, I wouldnt mind having more novellas to read too
The Inheritors - William Golding
The Coming Insurrection
On Bullshit
On Truth
OP here, Death in Venice is a goo short read as well.
Old Man and the Sea is pretty damn short. As is Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog.
Could always read short stories or short story collections, OP? Gogol's The Nose, Metamorphosis etc
Is this being meme'd here nowadays or is just one guy trying to start a discussion? I can never tell anymore.
A clockwork Orange
The time machine
The day of the triffids (just finished this surprisingly good)
on the heights of despair, dostojewski(white nights etc), siddhartha, steppenwolf, meditations, seneca, the tunnel(sabato), dialogues of plato,
Almost anything by Chekhov, personal faves being the Country Cottage and The Lady with the Dog
Inherent Vice
Have Read Siddharta. Will check out others.
I have a collected short stories book of Kafka(includes metamorphosis that I read) and one with Edgar A. Poe's stories. As well as a simmilar one of Hemingway that included the sun also rises.
Of Mice and Men
These, for anyone curious.
Recent sub 200 page reads that I enjoyed
Persuasion - Austen
Ficciones - Borges
The Summer Book - Jansson
Candide - Voltaire
A hero of our time
The Borges and Voltaire books seem to be up my alley, thanks.
Get a book of short stories I guess.
Kafka
Borges
Dubliners by Joyce, haven't read read it, but I know it's recommended a lot.
1. The lazy millenial
2. The curious incident of the short attention span
3. A short history of being a pleb by Emil Plebian
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
You caught me slippin'
I'll go grab my directors cut editions of 2666, Infinite Jest, and War&Peace asap.
>The Day of the Locust
pretty good, yeah
>Invisible Cities
Interesting concept but kinda disappointing in the end. Still worth a read.
>Too Loud A Solitude
awesome read, probably the best of your bunch.
Haven't read the others, but always wanted to try out lispector. Isn't Muriel Spark a pleb writer? Just asking.
Siddhartha
The Street of Crocodiles
The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Ethics of Ambiguity Paperback by Simone de Beauvoir
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Candide by Voltaire
Muriel Spark writes very good novellas, consistently, without wasting a word. They're kind of tragicomic, but the comedy is extremely dry and deadpan.
They're called Novellas.
Zombie.
The Ghost-Seer, you MUST read this
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> The work is narrated in the first person by the 'Graf von O**' (Count of O**). It describes the story of a German prince visiting Venice at carnival time. Right at the start of the work, the Count stresses that this story might sound incredible, but that he had witnessed it with own eyes. Furthermore, he talks of his disinterest in deceiving the public as "at the time these pages will tread into the world, I will not be and will neither win nor lose by the account given."
Right. As a non native speaker the distinction loses me sometimes. In Norwegian a Novel is a "Roman", while a Novella on the other hand is a Novelle.
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
With My Dog Eyes by Hilda Hilst
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra