Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
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Anonymous
| I’m about to finish my current read, but a book I’ve been waiting to read comes out on Tuesday, however, I still want something to read over the weekend. Recommendations, please! |
Anonymous
| Have you ever read Different Seasons by Stephen King? Four novellas. All good. Three of them were made into excellent movies (Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me being two. Apt Pupil is the third). |
Anonymous
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Here you go. Already discussed in this amazing Book Club forum:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1250592.page |
Anonymous
| Zorrie by Laird Hunt |
Anonymous
| Empress of Salt and Fortune |
Anonymous
| A River Runs Through It |
Anonymous
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The page count is longer, but it’s written as a diary, so a lot of that is formatting. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G5GKWGQJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 |
Anonymous
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Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. It’s here for free on Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231
It’s a novella and it is hilarious. It’s like The Office, or Office Space, but make it 1853 and also sad and dark. |
Anonymous
| The House on Mango Street |
Anonymous
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery |
Anonymous
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Silk. 100 pages.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61264.Silk |
Anonymous
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This guy is onto something when he claims that Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal) was at his best writing novellas/stories.
https://kevin6ca.substack.com/p/every-frederick-forsyth-novel-ranked |
Anonymous
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This is not a love story. Brendan Mathews (short stories)
An old man who reads love stories. Luis selpuveda. There’s always that old classic The Old Man and the Sea. I’ve been wanting to re read that as I get closer to old age. I also love th annual series The Best American Science and Nature Writing. |
Anonymous
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Wind Therapy is shorter at about 160 pages. It's the story of of Dr. Emily Carver, a VA therapist, who grows frustrated with the lack of progress traditional therapy is having for the veterans in her PTSD support group. After the tragic loss of one of their members, Dr. Carver decides to challenge the rigid approach to government mental health care and risk everything to take her group on a cross country motorcycle trip to find the purpose, brotherhood, and healing they all have been searching for. We join them on an emotional journey filled with highs and lows as they make their way from San Diego to Arlington National Cemetery, encountering dangerous storms, unexpected reunions, and even a Texas bar fight along the way. Wind Therapy is a story that reminds us that healing is not always found at the destination but often in the miles in between.
It's newly released on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online stores. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247930023-wind-therapy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=lDNYilE0WM&rank=4 |
Anonymous
| "What does it feel like?" by Sophie Kinsella. |