In the mood for something to read, something with some pop, that you maybe don’t have to mortgage a week of your life to read? How about a romance or some horror or something post-modern or an old fashioned classic or something Beat; some solid Science Fiction or maybe a touch of the existential or something to simply break your heart? Call it a novella, call it a long short story, call it a short novel, it doesn’t matter, if it’s great and it’s under 199 pages (& over 59), it’s on this list. And, oh, if it’s on this list I read it and, in one way or another, it grabbed me. If you read something here and don’t like it, time wasted is kept to a minimum. And besides, the novels on this list are as different from each other as can be, so if you don’t like one, try another.
Great reads, less filling …
Persuasion – Jane Austen
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Fup – Jim Dodge
The Malady of Death – Marguerite Duras
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Journey to the East – Hermann Hesse
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Tristessa – Jack Kerouac
The Mist– Stephen King
Swimmer in a Secret Sea – William Kotzwinkle
The Sibyl – Par Lagerkvist
The Fox – D. H. Lawrence
Fifth Child – Doris Lessing
At the Mountains of Madness – H. P. Lovecraft
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Rules of Life – Fay Weldon
PS: Bet you can’t guess which one (make that two) broke my heart (hint: it ain’t the Clive Barker).
Don
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