Recommend me a GOOD short novel, or five of them

OP here, thanks for recommendations.
I was thinking of novellas
Go fuck yourself. I didn't say novella because Americans usually just call it short novel.
Oh, and it's ironic you're calling someone a pseud.

>If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

muh nignog

Schachnovelle

Invitation to a Beheading
Slaughterhouse Five

Portrait?

Joyce?

sí

Is it any good? I've read around fifty pages before I had to lend it to a friend, it seemed like a classic example coming-of-age story?

Too loud a solitude, Bohumil Hrabal

J U S T
R E A D
P L A Y S

The Lime Twig

The Pedersen Kid

>Pedro Páramo
Based

Col49

chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez
who killed palomino molero by mario vargas llosa
time and the hunter by italo calvino
running out of ideas now
erm
fantastic mr fox by roald dahl
asterix in switzerland by goscinny and uderzo

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Weakest story from that collection t b h. Icicles was the best.

You are wrong.

Literally any Steinbeck novel. Except grapes of wrath because it's long.

Winter of our discontent is my personal favorite.

not a bad choice user
i like cannery row meself

Also fekkin great, i wish there were more authors like Steinbeck, i miss reading fiction like that

Every thread found
To carry the infection.
Dankku all around

this is a great selection

I want to kiss her high heels

Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Amok - Stefan Zweig
End Zone - Don DeLillo
White Noise - Don DeLillo
The End of the Road - John Barth

All wonderful, and quick reads. They vary from ~35-200 pages

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
The Lime Twig - John Hawkes

Ask the Dust by John Fante.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.

Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson

Estrella Distante by Roberto Bolaño Ávalos

The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout

How to read Pynchon and actually understand him? I have never had this problem with anything I read, until Pynchon, goddammit.

What? Col49 isn't difficult at all

Yeah, The Crying of Lot 49 is probably his most accessible. I read it in an intro to lit course.

I am not a native speaker, so just reading the first page killed me.

Thanks, brah. I intuited a non-native reader and wanted to give instances of clean English. All read as if 80pp. except the one that actually is 80pp.- the James- which is my favorite.

Non native English speaker (but very proficient) user here.
I understand exactly what you are talking about, I guess you kind of have to get used to it because he sometimes structures frases in a specific way. It hepls if you read it looking for a specific rhythm. Right in the beginning she is recalling a tupperware party and then at that recollection she is recalling having received a letter making her heir to the estate of her ex lover jumping back to present where she is listening to some music while she cooks. It all gets wound up because it jumps from magazine to cookbook or whatever and then to spices and then to pages and lasagna layers and at that moment her husband gets home. Read carefully and look up words you don't know because they're uncommon and you should do fine

THICC

>captcha: full boheme

you never go full boheme