Books you can read in a day/in one sitting:
• The Lover, by Marguerite Duras.
Love story between a teenager and a Chinese merchant.
• The Royal Game, by Stefan Zweig.
Story about a chess game between a chess prodigy and a businessman.
• Buchmendel, by Stefan Zweig.
The story of a book peddler who possesses a prodigious memory and is beloved by the community.
• The Resistance, by Ernesto Sabato.
Essay on the dangers of dehumanizing work, the cult of television and technology, the lack of dialogue between humans, and mass production.
• The Golden Cockerel, by Juan Rulfo.
Short story about a man who owns a cockerel.
Other books that you can also read in one day/one sitting but are much more popular:
• Demian, by Hermann Hesse.
• The Pearl, by John Steinbeck.
There's another book I wanted to recommend but apparently it's not translated into English. 👎🏻
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