Joy land by Stephen King. Easy read, who-done-it mystery novel with a small hint of the paranormal. Not like his typical monster fests at all.
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Jesus’ Son—Denis Johnson
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Code Talker
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Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
The trial, Kafka
The old man and the sea, Hemingway
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I love the series nightmare, Arizona by Beth Dolgner and the series Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast by Beth Dolgner. All the books are around 200 pages a piece
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A Short Stay in Hell
Botchan
An Unforgiving Land
The turner Diaries
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Of Mice And Men
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Earthsea series!
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I Who Have Never Known Men
A Short Stay in Hell
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The Outsiders
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– Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (sci-fi)
– La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (litfic)
– The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (fantasy)
– The Employees by Olga Ravn (sci-fi)
– Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher (fantasy)
– Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (sci-fi)
– To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (sci-fi)
– Greek Lessons by Han Kang (litfic)
– Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy)
– The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre (crime)
Listed from shortest to longest, all published prior to 2020.
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The Black Mountain by Kate Mosse
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God of Small Things – 333 pages
Siddartha – 122 pages
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman is a really beautiful novella about an elderly man with dementia and his grandson. It’s an emotional but quick read.
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Rabbit proof fence
All the dirty parts by Daniel Handler
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I’d say Foster or Small Things Like These, both by Claire Keegan
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Dystopian.
Venus in Fur by David Ives. Play about power play, BDSM, and sex.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. Classic scifi-horror.
This is my Body, Given for You by Heather Parry. Horror short stories.
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson. Poetry.
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The shorter novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like The General in His Labyrinth, Memories of My Melancholic Whores, Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
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Joy land by Stephen King. Easy read, who-done-it mystery novel with a small hint of the paranormal. Not like his typical monster fests at all.
Jesus’ Son—Denis Johnson
Code Talker
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
The trial, Kafka
The old man and the sea, Hemingway
I love the series nightmare, Arizona by Beth Dolgner and the series Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast by Beth Dolgner. All the books are around 200 pages a piece
A Short Stay in Hell
Botchan
An Unforgiving Land
The turner Diaries
Of Mice And Men
Earthsea series!
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Short Stay in Hell
The Outsiders
– Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (sci-fi)
– La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (litfic)
– The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (fantasy)
– The Employees by Olga Ravn (sci-fi)
– Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher (fantasy)
– Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (sci-fi)
– To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (sci-fi)
– Greek Lessons by Han Kang (litfic)
– Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy)
– The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre (crime)
Listed from shortest to longest, all published prior to 2020.
The Black Mountain by Kate Mosse
God of Small Things – 333 pages
Siddartha – 122 pages
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman is a really beautiful novella about an elderly man with dementia and his grandson. It’s an emotional but quick read.
Rabbit proof fence
All the dirty parts by Daniel Handler
I’d say Foster or Small Things Like These, both by Claire Keegan
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Dystopian.
Venus in Fur by David Ives. Play about power play, BDSM, and sex.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. Classic scifi-horror.
This is my Body, Given for You by Heather Parry. Horror short stories.
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson. Poetry.
The shorter novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like The General in His Labyrinth, Memories of My Melancholic Whores, Chronicle of a Death Foretold.