Hello!
After loss and trauma gripped and distracted me from reading for too many years, I'm finally finding my way back into the literary world and it makes me so happy to be asking for any suggestions for shorter fiction. One day I'll be ready for a full-length feast of a novel but I'm trying to keep it short, and possibly devastating since if I book doesn't make me cry… well, I might cry. Mostly kidding about that part – I'm open to all the feels.
Recently I've read and loved:
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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The Before The Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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We'll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida
+ my all-time favourite book is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Thanks in advance, I look forward to your recommendations.
by unseentides
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These short books are novellas that are considered classics or written by authors of classics:
– *The Stranger* by Albert Camus
– *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll
– *Through the Looking-Glass* by Lewis Carroll
– *Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad
– *The Red Badge of Courage* by Stephen Crane
– *A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens
– *Notes from the Underground* by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
– *The Hound of the Baskervilles* by Arthur Conan Doyle
– *The Old Man and the Sea* by Ernest Hemingway
– *Siddhartha* by Hermann Hesse
– *Daisy Miller* by Henry James
– *Death in Venice* by Thomas Mann
– *Billy Budd, Sailor* by Herman Melville
– *Animal Farm* by George Orwell
– *Of Mice and Men* by John Steinbeck
– *The Red Pony* by John Steinbeck
– *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* by Robert Louis Stevenson
– *The Death of Ivan Ilyich* by Leo Tolstoy
– *Hadji Murat* by Leo Tolstoy
– *The Time Machine* by H. G. Wells
– *Ethan Frome* by Edith Wharton
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