Give me your best and shortest novels...

give me your best and shortest novels. just got done with pic related and need more short stuff to make a habit of reading

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Tropisms -- Nathalie Sarraut

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Hugo
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Gothe
The Time Machine - Wells
The Trial - Kafka
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
Crash - Ballard

the old man and the sea x 2

Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

death of ivan ilych - Tolstoy

master and margarita is a pretty fun short read

everyone needs to read The Trial desu

Death of Ivan Ilyich
Heart of Darkness (although it’s a real slog, it has historical value)
The Invention of Morel
Stoner

Notes from Underground

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Storm of Steel

You Bright and Risen Angels is a super quick read, pick that up

Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Jekyll & Hyde (Stevenson)
Dubliners (Joyce)

How To Read A Book by Adler. Great book, you can likely get a pdf on lib gen. Here's roughly how it recommends to read.
>Read all material outside of main text (preface, index, endnotes, appendix, table of contents, front and back covers, ect.)
>Skim main text in random jumps
>Speed read what chapters seem most important
How do speed read? It's not about comprehension, just quickly scan it. During this phase, only write down unknown words.
>Research any unfamiliar words at this point
>Skim individual chapters right before reading them normally
>Read regularly the main text.
At this point you're only taking notes INSIDE the book. Specifically, underlining unknown words and important sentences, vertically marking important paragraphs, and circling important page numbers.
>Refuse to reread lines during this phase.
It's not from the book I found this rule somewhere else.
>After each page, close book and recall main ideas.
This isn't from book either I got this from somewhere else too.
>After completion of chapter or arbitrary section, return and re-read while noting OUTSIDE the book. Write the page number and then a revision OR a quotation of the material. For instance, you could re-write in full a sentence, but it's best to revise and condense paragraphs.

Also gonna recc Siddhartha. Short, enjoyable, classic.

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Forgot to finish my post.
Also gonna recc Siddhartha. Short, enjoyable, classic.

I'm also gonna recc Slaughterhouse Five, Alice In Wonderland, The Tale Of Peter Rabbit,
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Yea Forums starter book classic) and The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Fadiman (A collection of essays about historically significant authors. Great starter kit if you ask me.)

Anais Nin - House of Incest
Cynthia Ozick - The Shawl
Too Loud a Solitude
Agape, Agape

The sound of waves by Mishima is a very charming small book about a romance on a small Japanese fishing island. Easy to read, very cute desu.

This seems like awful amount of work, why cant you just read it and take notes? I just started reading it today

Borges and de Maupassant short stories

You'd want to reserve the full treatment for works that deserve it. If you're ever tackling a big or complex work, or a historically significant work, or a textbook of some sort, or just a really, very, good book, you'd wanna give it the full entrenchment into it.

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Uh, but to clarify Yeah you can just read and take notes. I'd still recommend the closing book and recalling the page though.

If you're digging Camus, The Fall is good. Breakfast of Champions reads really fast even though it doesn't look short.

Kokoro - Soseki
The Joke - Kundera