When I finish one novel sometimes it can take me several days or even weeks to decide on what’s next. So something to fill those gaps.
Open to essays, short stories, poetry, etc.
Currently enjoying The Memory Palace by Nate Dimeo for this purpose. But, I’m nearing the end.
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The Odyssey actually worked for me for this very purpose.
*Savage Grace.* It consists of snippets of quotes woven within the story of the family and the murder. Quite well done.
The James Herriot books definitely can be read at random and irregular intervals.
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
*The Collected Stories* by William Trevor
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
A Quiet Foghorn by Raymond Luczak
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Space Struck by Paige Lewis
The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa.
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
Just really lovely descriptive accounts of fictitious cities that he has encountered on his travels.. it’s great to pick up, read a chapter or two and then put down again.
I’m just waiting for someone to mention the Bible
Trainspotting
Samuel Pepys diary? Literally a dude’s diary from the 1660s and he wound up being rather important. Slices of everyday life from 400 yrs ago plus politics and all of his scandalous affairs in bite sized chunks
Braiding Sweetgrass is good for reading this way in my experience. The essays vary in length but are pretty discrete.
What about Runaway, or another short story by Alice Munro? Or if you’re looking for something. On the weird and wacky side, Roald Dahl has at least 1 adult short story book