Recommend me a GOOD short novel, or five of them.

Please, I need this.

>>9345172
The Day of the Locust, The Turn of the Screw, The Blue Flower, Lady into Fox, Where Angels Fear to Tread.

Read the first one. Nathaniel West.

>>9345108
Typhoon by Conrad
Skylark
The Aran Islands

>>9345108
The Great Gatsby

>>9345108
Twenty Four hours in the Life of a Woman

>>9345108

The Double

What is short? If pressed, I guess I'd personally say:

1-275 pages is short
250-475 is average
450-750 is long
725 and upwards is epic

Obviously the overlap is because you really can't have a definitive cut off.

>>9345108
The term you're thinking of is novella, not short novel, you wretched pseud.

>>9345108
Victoria
Notes from the Underground
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Pedro Páramo

OP here, thanks for recommendations.
>>9345387
I was thinking of novellas
>>9345393
Go fuck yourself. I didn't say novella because Americans usually just call it short novel.
Oh, and it's ironic you're calling someone a pseud.

>If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

muh nignog

>>9345108
Schachnovelle

Invitation to a Beheading
Slaughterhouse Five

>>9345108
Portrait?

>>9345668
Joyce?

>>9345739
sí

>>9345783
Is it any good? I've read around fifty pages before I had to lend it to a friend, it seemed like a classic example coming-of-age story?

>>9345108
Too loud a solitude, Bohumil Hrabal

J U S T
R E A D
P L A Y S

The Lime Twig

The Pedersen Kid

>>9345439
>Pedro Páramo
Based

Col49

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>>9345108
chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez
who killed palomino molero by mario vargas llosa
time and the hunter by italo calvino
running out of ideas now
erm
fantastic mr fox by roald dahl
asterix in switzerland by goscinny and uderzo

pic unrelated

>>9346113
Weakest story from that collection t b h. Icicles was the best.

>>9346127
You are wrong.

>>9345108
Literally any Steinbeck novel. Except grapes of wrath because it's long.

Winter of our discontent is my personal favorite.

>>9346140
not a bad choice anon
i like cannery row meself

>>9346174
Also fekkin great, i wish there were more authors like Steinbeck, i miss reading fiction like that

Every thread found
To carry the infection.
Dankku all around

>>9345275
this is a great selection

>>9346121
I want to kiss her high heels

Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Amok - Stefan Zweig
End Zone - Don DeLillo
White Noise - Don DeLillo
The End of the Road - John Barth

All wonderful, and quick reads. They vary from ~35-200 pages

>>9345108
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
The Lime Twig - John Hawkes

>>9345108

Ask the Dust by John Fante.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.

Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson

Estrella Distante by Roberto Bolaño Ávalos

The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout

>>9346685
How to read Pynchon and actually understand him? I have never had this problem with anything I read, until Pynchon, goddammit.

>>9346890
What? Col49 isn't difficult at all

>>9346890
Yeah, The Crying of Lot 49 is probably his most accessible. I read it in an intro to lit course.

>>9346913
I am not a native speaker, so just reading the first page killed me.

>>9346346
Thanks, brah. I intuited a non-native reader and wanted to give instances of clean English. All read as if 80pp. except the one that actually is 80pp.- the James- which is my favorite.

>>9346930
Non native English speaker (but very proficient) anon here.
I understand exactly what you are talking about, I guess you kind of have to get used to it because he sometimes structures frases in a specific way. It hepls if you read it looking for a specific rhythm. Right in the beginning she is recalling a tupperware party and then at that recollection she is recalling having received a letter making her heir to the estate of her ex lover jumping back to present where she is listening to some music while she cooks. It all gets wound up because it jumps from magazine to cookbook or whatever and then to spices and then to pages and lasagna layers and at that moment her husband gets home. Read carefully and look up words you don't know because they're uncommon and you should do fine

>>9345108
THICC

>captcha: full boheme

>>9347245
you never go full boheme