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    Whenever I see this question asked the answers are mostly non-fiction, so I’d love to hear what everyone’s thoughts for fiction are.

    by bearpuddles

    17 Comments

    1. the yellow wallpaper. it’s short and digestible, it’s a classic, and there is TONS of conversation surrounding it. i’d consider it a staple

    2. I’d be interested in how wrong one thinks the ending to the “White Plague” by Frank Herbert is. I think it was totally off base, like any man writing it might be.

    3. TubbsontheCoast on

      Here’s a real simple one. It’s like two-three pages. Probably online for free. Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway. I think every man should read it too. Then we should all discuss over absinthe cocktails somewhere in Paris and figure out if we can ever treat each other better.

    4. woman on the edge of time by marge piercy

      handmaid’s tale by atwood

      parable of the sower by octavia butler

    5. yourlittlebirdie on

      The Story of an Hour (actually you can probably read it right now in less than 20 minutes, it’s very short and available for free online).

    6. I guess I’ll be the first one to insist on checking the very short, very powerful *I Who Have Never Known Men*

    7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. That book shaped me as a child, and I get something new out of it with every reread, even 30 years later.

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