Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages

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The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

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I am Legend by Richard Matheson, under 100 pages

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Anonymous wrote:Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

+1

Also O Caldonia by Elspeth Barker

+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

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For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll.

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Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

Yes! Just read this.

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OP, I love this idea!

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I took a class on the novella in grad school. Some that I remember:

Jacob’s Room / Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm / George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea / Hemingway
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a masterpiece; it is very different from the film based on it, much darker and more interesting.

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Eve in Hollywood, a novella in collection Table for Two, by Amor Towels .. author of Gentleman in Moscow.

It's the sequel to Rules of Civility.

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Anonymous wrote:A River Runs Through It

One of my absolute favorites. I still have my dad's paperback copy.

I just got Lauren Groff's new book of short stories, Brawler. Haven't started it yet but I'm excited to start!

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I loved the Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, set in northern England. An adolescent girl coming of age on her parents' dig at an Iron Age site. Weird and dark and a quick 130 pages.

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Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

This, and: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

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I just read Foster by Claire Keegan. What talent she has.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

I was going to recommend this or Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

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The Swimmer by Cheever, Old Mrs Harris by Willa Cather, The Summer People by Shirley Jackson, Royal Jelly by Roald Dahl, The Secret Miracle by Borges.