Suggest something under 200 pages..literary fiction..unputdownable..intelligent
Something under 200 pages….literary fiction…unputdownable…intelligent
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Something under 200 pages….literary fiction…unputdownable…intelligent
Animal Farm
Copper Sun – Sharon Draper
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Stranger / Outsider- Albert Camus and Who killed Palomino Malero by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.
The alchemist
Jekyll and Hyde. The Great Gatsby
Body of Evidence series by Christopher Golden
The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
The Incident of the dog in the nighttime
The Reader by Bernard Shlink
THE GREAT GATSBY
Love, love, love this book.
The Scarlet Letter
the 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Old Man and the Sea
A Clockwork Orange/Burgess
Of Mice and Men/Steinbeck
Home/ Morrison
Animal Farm/Orwell
Great suggestions. Of Mice and Men is one of favorites.
Ethan Frome
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Or really anything Shirley Jackson.
Any of these, or indeed any of the other Penguin shorts:
http://www.foyles.co.uk/little-black-classics
The fifth child
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott.
The Dechronization of Sam Macgruder ( Sci-Fi)
Ehrengard
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The alchemist
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Non fiction. Steve King “on Writing” ?
We the Living -Rand
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Maybe a bit lighter than “literary fiction”, but The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett is sly and fun.
Ali and Nino by Begin Said
5 people you meet in heaven