Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
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Anonymous
| Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan |
Anonymous
+1 Also O Caldonia by Elspeth Barker |
Anonymous
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I have two amazing recommendations in the creepy/unnerving/weird genre (not horror).
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed |
Anonymous
I just came on here to recommend Stephen King's short stories! He has a bunch of them compiled but you could always read some now and some later - they're generally all independent of each other although some do contain characters from other books. He has an amazing way of drawing you into a short story immediately, which I love. |
Anonymous
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agree with Small Things like these and The Four Seasons by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol The Metamorphosis The Little Prince |
Anonymous
Didn't everyone read this in junior high school? I know I did. But it's a classic. Another good one is The Children's Story. Kind of pertinent to current circumstances. https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/tcs.pdf |
Anonymous
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84 Charing Cross Road
Psalm for the Wild Built |
Anonymous
| Tolstoy, Hadji Murat |
Anonymous
A Christmas Carol? That's not short. |
Anonymous
| I posted this in a separate thread and got zero responses, which is surprising considering this is a parenting board, but The End We Start From is a very short, lyrical, unnervingly beautiful read about new motherhood during some unnamed end times. Really amazing, unique book. Haven't seen the movie so can't vouch for that but the book is incredible. |
Anonymous
| The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt |
Anonymous
| I am Legend by Richard Matheson, under 100 pages |
Anonymous
+2. Love both of those. Margaret the First, based on the real Margaret Cavendish, is also good. |
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+3 for anything by Claire Foster and +1 for 84 Charing Cross Road, which is like a giant hug. Went back to my goodreads and sorted by pages (who knew this was possible) and also recommending these:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Not a River by Selva Almada The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Shy by Max Porter Up the Junction by Nell Dunn Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss |
Anonymous
| For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll. |