I’m not sure of the exact word count but Picture of Dorian gray is super short.
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From most to least pages my favorites are:
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
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small things like theses the best Christmas book ever written
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
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The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells – most of the series is novellas
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*The English Understand Wool* by Helen deWitt. It’s such a perfectly concocted little story – with all the drama, intrigue and tension that many authors could only achieve with a much lengthier book.
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– The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin
– Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
– Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
I’m not exact on the page counts but they’re all v short!
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A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L Peck (110 pages).
Various Stephen King short stories — highly recommend The Jaunt.
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*Chronicle of a Death Foretold*, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
*The Vegetarian*, Han Kang (okay, 158 pages).
*The Stranger,* Albert Camus.
*Seize the Day*, Saul Bellow.
*We Have Always Lived in the Castle*, Shirley Jackson (152 pages).
*Civil Disobedience,* Henry David Thoreau.
A lot of plays, like *Long Day’s Journey into Night* (O’Neill),
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The All of it by Jeanette Haien. 145 pages.
Animal Farm, Old Man And The Sea
I’m not sure of the exact word count but Picture of Dorian gray is super short.
From most to least pages my favorites are:
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
small things like theses the best Christmas book ever written
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells – most of the series is novellas
*The English Understand Wool* by Helen deWitt. It’s such a perfectly concocted little story – with all the drama, intrigue and tension that many authors could only achieve with a much lengthier book.
– The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin
– Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
– Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
I’m not exact on the page counts but they’re all v short!
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L Peck (110 pages).
Various Stephen King short stories — highly recommend The Jaunt.
*Chronicle of a Death Foretold*, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
*The Vegetarian*, Han Kang (okay, 158 pages).
*The Stranger,* Albert Camus.
*Seize the Day*, Saul Bellow.
*We Have Always Lived in the Castle*, Shirley Jackson (152 pages).
*Civil Disobedience,* Henry David Thoreau.
A lot of plays, like *Long Day’s Journey into Night* (O’Neill),
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo