Oi lit, I've recently only read big heavy tomes that have more pages then James Patterson has published books.
I'm tired of them, I want skinny books I can read on one commute.
What are the best and most /lit/ ±100 page books?
>>7354093
~100 pages will be hard, but "No Longer Human" and "A Hero of Our Time" are both sub-200 and really good. Some Kafka/Conrad, too? "Metamorphosis" and "Heart of Darkness".
>>7354093
The Old Man and The Sea
>>7354093
There is a novella chart in the sticky.
>>7354093
Island of Dr Moreau
Journey To The End Of The Night
The Lord Of The Flies
Point omega - delillo
Following this, started commuting recently and don't want to lug around 600-900 page hardcovers
>>7354250
so get an ebook reader ?
>>7354180
>Journey To The End Of The Night
Are you high?
waiting for the barbarians, the loser
>>7354093
train dreams
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Omon Ra by Viktor Pelevin.
It's usually available in collections with one other of his novellas or with a handful of his short stories.
>>7354093
Einstein's Dreams, u slut .
>>7354180
>Journey To The End Of The Night
wtf man
Notes from Underground
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Consider some short story collections.
Chekhov, Gogol, Joyce, Bukowski, Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence are some of my favorites.
>>7354123
No Longer Human is excellent
>>7355825
Just finished this. Greatly enjoyed it as it was every night of the week before my first half marathon. However, it simply won't appeal to somebody who does not run as a hobby.
>>7354093
Caligula by Robert Graves was pretty good.
>>7355903
I don't run and don't intend to and I am enjoying the book very much.
I wouldn't call running the centerfold, for me it's more like a biography of an author who happens to enjoy running quite well.
The Dead by Joyce
Dream Story by Schnitzler
Both aren't easily classified length-wise - they're longer than most short stories but shorter than most novellas.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is surprisingly short - I finished it in an hour and I'm a really slow reader. It's cool to read the original thing considering its common association with split personality today.
Siddhartha
Graham Greene's short stories
The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger by Camus
the road - mccarthy
By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is among one of the best books I've read recently.
>Aristophanes - Lysistrata
>Ethel Voynich - The Gadfly
>Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger
>H D Thoreau - Walden
Bonus plays: Death of a Salesman and Comedy of Errors
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Stranger
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Op here,
Thanks for all the suggestions.
This truly is a comfy board.
can someone recommend anything simple on french? my french is pretty bad and i want to learn it a bit more by reading some books
or russian would be ok too
it should be the original language
thanks
>>7356802
Start with Le Petit Prince, then read some Camus
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
>>7354093
Moderato Cantabile- Duras
At Swim Two-Birds- Flann O'Brian
Fahrenheit 451. not a joke, i actually liked it
confession of a mask
>>7354093
THE STRANGER GODDAMN
>>7354180
Journey is over 400 pages dingus
This is my favorite book.
>>7354093
Do you read fast, or do you live really far away from where you work/study?
57 pages
>>7354093
I love skinny books.
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem is a lesser known classic. It's hilarious, kind of a dystopic comedy subgenre.
Steinbeck has a bunch if you haven't read them yet. Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men are favs.
Saul Bellow's Dangling Man is good, although I wasn't a huge fan of his Mosby's Memoirs stories. The ones in Him with His Foot in His Mouth are better, especially Cousins and the title story.
George Orwell is good, his major two of course, but Down and Out in Paris and London is the best imo.
