First off, I just recently read Hour of the Star, The Maimed, and Notes from Underground. Based on my experience of reading those books, I realize that these are the kind of books that I enjoyed the most. I wanted to be shaken, and not worry about being thrown off by the amount of pages. Does anyone know any similar novels?
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Of Mice and Men
Marginally thicker than NFU, but Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a good one.
The Passion According To GH by Clarice Lispector
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
Minor detail by Adania Shibli
Human acts by Han Kang
The Nickel Boys by Colin whitehead
Small things like these by Claire Keegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler – I just read it in like 4 days
Dirty Snow by Geoges Simenon and Missing Person by Patrick Modiano.
I think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is incredibly powerful – and it’s around 150ish pages. But, you really need to have read Jane Eyre for the book to work, or at least be aware of the story of Jane Eyre, because it’s written as a prequel to Jane Eyre. It’s the story of the first Mrs Rochester, and how she became the person she is in Bronte’s novel.
Where the Red Fern Grows! I haven’t read it yet but every lady I knew in my undergrad town book club said they loved it
No longer human – Osamu Dazai (47,000 ish words in translation)
Silence – ShÅ«saku Endo (64,000 ish words in translation)
La mascara de carne. Meat mask. Dont know by who. But it really sadden me. Also. 1000 arms christ.