More Great Short Books

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• The Abbess of Crewe Muriel Sparks
• Accabadora Michela Murgia
• The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
• Amsterdam Ian McEwan
• The Aspern Papers Henry James
• Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
• Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez
• Being There Jerzy Kosinski
• The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
• Billy Budd, Sailor Herman Melville
• Bone Fae Myenne Ng
• Cain José Saramago
• The Call of the Wild Jack London
• Cane Jean Toomer
• Cannery Row John Steinbeck
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
• Chéri Colette
• Child of God Cormac McCarthy
• Chocky John Wyndham
• The Chrysalids John Wyndham
• The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
• Corregidora Gayl Jones
• The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
• Daisy Miller Henry James
• Dawn Octavia E. Butler
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
• Fateless Imre Kertész
• Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley
• Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger
• A Gathering of Old Men Ernest J. Gaines
• Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin
• Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
• The Immoralist André Gide
• In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka
• Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
• Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
• The Landlady Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Legends of the Fall Jim Harrison
• Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
• My House in Umbria William Trevor
• Nightwood Djuna Barnes
• Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• O Pioneers! Willa Cather
• The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
• Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote
• The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
• Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
• A Rage in Harlem Chester Himes
• Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
• The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
• A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean
• A Room with a View E. M. Forster
• Seize the Day Saul Bellow
• Siddhartha Herman Hesse
• Silas Marner George Eliot
• Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick
• Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
• Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
• Speedboat Renata Adler
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
• Swift as Desire Laura Esquivel
• Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac
• Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola
• The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
• The Time Machine H. G. Wells
• Tortilla Flats John Steinbeck
• Train Dreams Denis Johnson
• The Trial Franz Kafka
• The Turn of the Screw Henry James
• Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand
• The Vegetarian Han Kang
• A Very Easy Death Simone de Beauvoir
• We Yevgeny Zamyatin
• We the Animals Justin Torres
• Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster
• Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle