List of short reads from different genres.
For those who are just starting out with a genre , or don't have enough time, this is a list of short reads contributed by literary genres, and book related subs.
status: updating
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| Book | Author | Pages ---|---|----|---| • |Three Tales | Gustave Flaubert| 144 •|The Outsider | Albert Camus | 123 •|The Wall | Jean Paul Sartre | 183 •|I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced |Nujood Ali | 188 •|The Last Lecture |Randy Pausch | 206 •|A Clockwork Orange |Anthony Burgess | 192 •|Jesus' Son |Denis Johnson |160 •|Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 112 •|Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 160 •|Penny for Your Thoughts |P.M. Singer |100 •|Oh What A Lovely War^play |Joan Littlewood | 95 •|A Bright Room Called Day^play | Tony Kushner | 200 •|Angels in America^play | Tony Kushner | 302 (two parts) •|The Children's Hour^play |Lillian Hellman | 75 •|The Crying of Lot 49 |Thomas Pynchon | 152 •|Dandelion Wine |Ray Bradbury | 239 •|Fahrenheit 451|Ray Bradbury |227 •|The Old Man and the Sea |Ernest Hemingway | 132 •|Kitchen |Banana Yoshimoto | 152 •|Lake |Banana Yoshimoto | 192 •|Hardboiled and Hardluck |Banana Yoshimoto | 149 •|The Briefcase|Hiromi Kawakami| 208 •|Revenge|Yoko Ogawa| 176 •|Diving Pool | Yoko Ogawa | 176 •|The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa| 192 •|Twinkle Twinkle |Kaori Ekuni | 170 •|The Girl with the Golden Shoes |Colin Channer |170 •|Hush | Jacqueline Woodson | 181 •|Suddenly a knock on the Door |Etgar Keret | 208 •|The Girl on the Fridge |Etgar Keret |192 •| The Blue Fox| Sjon| 128 •| The Translator| Leila Aboulela| 208 •| The Jaguar Smile |Salman Rushdie | 160 •| Troll: A love story | Johanna Silisalo | 240 •|Iron man | Ted Hughes | 80 •| Iron Woman | Ted Hughes | 128 •| Life of a Counterfeiter | Yasushi Inoue | 112 •| Some Prefer Nettles | Junichiro Tanizaki| 160 •|The Barrytown Trilogy |Roddy Doyle | 640 •|Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe |Danny Wallace |119 •|The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky |213 •|Annihilation |Jeff VanderMeer |195 •|All My Friends are Superheroes | Andrew Kaufman | 120 •|The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly | Sun-mi Hwang | 144 •|The Big Four | Agatha Christie | 272 •|Felicity^poems |Mary Oliver | 96 •|All The Wrong Questions^series | Lemony Snicket |250 each •|The Ocean at the End of the Lane |Neil Gaiman |178 •|Miss Lonelyhearts |Nathanael West | 185 •|Franny and Zooey |J.D. Salinger |201 •|Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour |J.D. Salinger |256 •|Jonathan Livingston Seagull |Richard Bach |112 •|Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah |Richard Bach |144 •|The Dying Animal| Philip Roth |156 •| Mrs. Dalloway| Virginia Woolf| 194 •|Dear American Airlines | Jonathan Miles |180 •|And Then There Were None |Agatha Christie |264 •|The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil|George Saunders |130 •|So Long, See You Tomorrow |William Maxwell |135 •|Candide |Voltaire |94 •|The Body Artist |Don DeLillo |128 •|Big Fish |Daniel Wallace | 192 •|How I Became Stupid | Martin Page | 160 •|A Wizard of Earthsea |Ursula K. Le Guin | 183 •|The Great Gatsby |F. Scott Fitzgerald | 180 •|The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 160 •|The Island of Dr. Moreau |H.G. Wells | 153 •|The Time Machine |H.G. Wells |118 •|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep |Philip K. Dick |256 •|The Turn of the Screw |Henry James | 121 •|Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair^poems | Pablo Neruda | 70 •|The Dreamers |Gilbert Adair |208 •|Thirst for Love |Yukio Mishima | 200 •|Snow Country |Yasunari Kawabata |175 •|Saving Lives: Poems |Albert Goldbarth |128 •|Backup Singers^poems | Sommer Browning |88 •|Alien vs. Predator^poems |Michael Robbins |88 •|What Work Is^poems | Philip Levine| 77 •|, said the shotgun to the head.^poems |Saul Williams | 192 •|Tulips & Chimneys^poems | E.E. Cummings | 208 •|The Body's Question or Life on Mars^poems |Tracy K. Smith |72/75 •|The Selected Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko |Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 96 •|Vita Nuova | Dante Alighieri | 128 •|Howl and Other Poems |Allen Ginsberg | 56 •|Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror^poems |John Ashbery | 96 •|The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident^series|Elie Wiesel | 318/3 •|Good Morning, Midnight |Jean Rhys | 159 •|Wide Sargasso Sea |Jean Rhys |171 •|Professor Doctor Von Igenfeld^series |Alexander McCall Smith| 200ish each •|Antwerp|Roberto Bolaño|78
| Book | Author | Pages
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•|The Changeling Sea |Patricia A. McKillip | 137
•|The Forgotten Beasts of Eld |Patricia A. McKillip | 217
•|The Builders |Daniel Polansky |226
•|The Game | Diana Wynne Jones | 181
•|Redemption in Indigo |Karen Lord |188
•|Gunslinger^series^TheDarkTower |Stephen King |231
•|Los Nefilim ^series |T. Frohock | 128 pages each
•|Legion and Legion: Skin Deep | Brandon Sanderson | 88
•|The Emperor's Soul | Brandon Sanderson | 175
•|The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps |Kai Ashante Wilson|212
•|A Taste of Honey |Kai Ashante Wilson |160
•|The Drowning Eyes | Emily Foster | 144
•|Forest of Memory |Mary Robinette Kowal | 88
•|The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Kij Johnson | 166
•|Sixth of the Dusk |Brandon Sanderson | 96
•|Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell | Brandon Sanderson | 50
•|Perfect State |Brandon Sanderson | 87
•| The Fall^ series^TheSeventhTowe| Garth Nix | 195
•| A Wizard of Earthsea ^ series| Ursula K. Le Guin | 183
•| Stardust | Neil Gaiman | 250
•|Elric of Melniboné^series |Michael Moorcock | 181
| Book | Author | Pages
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• |The House on the Borderland | William Hope Hodgson | 156
• |The Call of Cthulhu | H.P. Lovecraft | 43
• |The Great God Pan | Arthur Machen | 128
• |The Willows | Algernon Blackwood | 105
• | The Black Spider| Jeremias Gotthelf | 120
• | The Boats Of The "Glen Carrig"| William Hope Hodgson | 176
• |Malpertuis | Jean Ray, John Flanders | 171
• | We Have Always Lived in the Castle| Shirley Jackson | 173
• | The Book of Skulls|Robert Silverberg | 196
• |Greener Pastures | Michael Wehun | 238
• |ALTAR | Philip Fracassi | 53
• |The Rats in the Walls | H.P. Lovecraft | 95
• |Casting the Runes^andOtherGhostStories | M. R. James | 400
• |The White People^andOtherWeirdStories |Arthur Machen | 377
• |Pigeons from Hell | Robert E. Howard | 48
• |Idle Days on the Yann^andOtherStories | Lord Dunsany | 48
• |The Last Incantation | Clark Ashton Smith | 262
• |The Demoniac Goat (Unholy Relics, and Other Uncanny Tales) | M.P. Dare | 157
• |Tales Of The Jumbee: And Other Wonders Of The West Indies | Henry S. Whitehead | 150
• |The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone | Richard Lupoff | short story
• |Murgunstrumm^&Others | Hugh B. Cave| 488
• | The Lamp of Alhazred|August Derleth | short story
• | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Kij Johnson | 166
| Book | Author | Pages
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• |The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 121
• |At the Mountains of Madness | H.P. Lovecraft | 186
• |I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 160
• |Mrs. God |Peter Straub | 5
• |The Beckoning Fair One | Oliver Onions | 96
• |Seven American Nights |Gene Wolfe |80
• |The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 182
• |Grimscribe: His Lives and Works |Thomas Ligotti | 230
• |Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad (The Last Feast of Harlequin) | M.R. James | 48
• |There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding |Russell Kirk | short
• |The Vampyre; A Tale | John William Polidori | 72
• |The Were-Wolf | Clemence Housman |60
•|Big Driver |Stephen King | 220
•|North American Lake Monsters: Stories |Nathan Ballingrud | 205
| Book | Author | Pages
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•| Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | 232
•| Holes| Louis Sachar | 233
•| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 162
•| The Folk Keeper | Franny Billingsley |176
•| The Giver | Lois Lowry |180
•| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie| 224
•| The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis| series
•| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson|198
•| Keturah and Lord Death | Martine Leavitt| 216
•| Boy21 |Matthew Quick| 250
•| Tree Girl | T.A. Barron|144
•| The Woman in the Wall |Patrice Kindl| 192
•|We Were Liars | E. Lockhart| 242
| Book | Author | Pages ---|---|----|---| •| Chess Story| Stefan Zweigl| 104 •| Click: One Novel, Ten Authors| multiple| 217
Posted Nov 12, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC · edited