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What are the best books you know of that can be read within a day or two?

Here are some of my favourites:

Jekyll & Hyde, Stevensson
Father Sergius, Tolstoy (very short)
Shakespeare's plays
The Metamorphosis, Kafka

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>> No.4287229

I read fear and loathing in las vegas in one sitting, it was really fun

>> No.4287252

>>4287225
i read less than zero in a few hours. even when i was younger i realized bret easton ellis was a terrible writer and a terrible person

>> No.4287255

>>4287225
B. Brecht - Caucasian chalk circle
M. Frisch - Andorra
S. Zweig - The Royal Game (Chess Story)
Plays by Albert Camus

>> No.4287272

Wise Blood
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Good Morning, Midnight
various Cesar Aira novellas

>> No.4287288

>>4287227
I really like that image. But oh god why has no one mentioned Chronicle of a Death Foretold? It won him a Nobel prize for a reason.

Also:
Nabokov - The Defense
G Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerebrus
Stoppard - Travesties

>> No.4287296

too loud a solitude
sum: forty tales from the afterlife
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
of mice and men
the old man the sea

>> No.4287301

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

it's also one of the most feelsy things I have ever read

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>>4287225
Pirandello - One, no one, one hundred thousand
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Il'ich
Dostoevskij - Withe Nights
Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Weather
Bataille - Story of the Eye
Calvino - Palomar
Calvino - Invisible Cities
Borges - Ficciones
Borges - Aleph and other stories
Borges - Zoologia Fantastica
Casares - The invention of Morel
Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Nabokov - Invitation to a beheading

>> No.4287310

Also it's not traditional fiction, but In Praise of Folly is one of the funniest books I know.