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What books do you recommend that can be read in a day?

>> No.8961108
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>>8961102
This Immortal

>> No.8961112

>>8961102
travesty by John hawkes.

>> No.8961113

The death of Ivan Ilyich
Notes from the underground
The trial

>> No.8961121

>>8961102
>Many many many
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>plays

>> No.8961124

agápē agape

>> No.8961443

>>8961102
L'Etranger

>> No.8961502

stoner

>> No.8961504

>>8961102
The Epic of Gilgamesh

>> No.8961506

>>8961102
A la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.8961513

>>8961102
What kind of monstrous creature is that?

>> No.8961530

>>8961513
its a poor little dog who is missing most of its spine or something like that

>> No.8961771

>>8961513

Doggo with a blanket over its lower body in an awkward position.

>> No.8961782

The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
The Nose
The Gambler
Dark Matter
Tinkers
Dying Inside
The Book of Job
On Bullshit
The Catcher in the Rye
Most Shakespeare Plays

>> No.8961838

>>8961513
>>8961771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l658u5WePks

>> No.8961905

Chess Story
Hour of the Star
Invisible Cities
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Nightwood
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Man Who Was Thursday
Sula
Cosmos
Kreutzer Sonata

>> No.8963277

Candide (my favorite book, only one i've read in a day)

Old Man and the Sea

epic of gilgamesh, notes from underground, chess story, the metamorphosis, death of ivan ilyich, agape agape

>> No.8963329

Seconding death of Ivan Ilych. Sad senpai

>> No.8963341

The overcoat
The nose

>> No.8963520

Nothing worthwhile if you actually want to get anything out of it.

>> No.8963543

>>8961905
I own The Man Who Was Thursday. Is it any good? I heard something about the devil being in it, is that true?

>>8963277
Seconding The Old Man and the Sea, I read it one early morning late last summer. Very good book.

>> No.8964958

The Stranger

>> No.8965002

>>8961838
lol I like it.

>> No.8965231
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I'd say you can read most books in one day outside of doorstoppers.

>> No.8965253

my diary, desu

>> No.8965689

>>8961443
This