What are the shorter /lit/ recommendations?
I travel a lot and prefer reading things that I can finish within a few sessions. The Stranger for example. What are some must-read 200 pagers?
>>9594037
Read short story collections
Joyce, Salinger, Hemingway, Carver, Kafka, Borges.
>>9594037
The Way of a Serpent - Lindgren, Torgny
On the Marble Cliffs - Jünger, Ernst
A Universal History of Iniquity - Borges, Jorge Luis (or really any of his books)
Wessex Tales - Hardy
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee, J.M.
The End of the Affair - Greene, Graham
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories - Kipling, Rudyard
The Underdogs - Azuela, Mariano
Season of Migration to the North - Salih, Tayeb
A Gun for Sale - Greene, Graham
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov, Mikhail
The Kingdom of This World - Carpentier, Alejo
The Master of Go - Kawabata, Yasunari
Child of God - McCarthy, Cormac
His Master's Voice - Lem, Stanisław
>>9594070
also
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Novellas
sticky has a good list/chart
Stoner by John Williams
The Rider by Tim Krabbe
>>9594070
>The End of the Affair - Greene, Graham
fuck this. i read it recently. it's the most boring book i have read for years
swap it for chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez instead