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I want to read some short novels/novellas since I'm planning to spend the second half of the year reading only door stoppers
What are the best short novels/novellas that you've read?

>> No.23117126
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>>23117105
Wait Until Spring, Bandini - Fante
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - the gay fella
An Outcast of the Islands - Conrad
Vonnegut’s always fun

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>>23117105
Conan!

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>>23117129
no way she’s not into it

>> No.23117144

>>23117105
Pedro Paramo
Train Dreams
A Whole Life
Ice
The Lime Twig
Trout Fishing in America
Zama
Mr Palomar

>> No.23117171

>>23117129
Movie is better

>> No.23117205

>>23117171
The movie sucks. Arnold sucks as an actor and Conan is a completely different character.

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>>23117143
Of course she's into. Bitches love Conan.
>>23117171
The movie is not better.
>>23117205
But you suck. The movie is great.

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give this a try

>> No.23117604

>>23117105
Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Yasunari Akawabata

>> No.23117612

>>23117105
some of this faggot zweig shit

>> No.23117620

Richard Weihe - Sea of Ink
My introduction to Peirene.

Edouard Leve - Suicide

Seconding Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson