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Great Short Books

"17. Emit needless words." —William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style
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The complete collection of novels recommended in Great Short Books: A Year of Reading– Briefly by Kenneth C. Davis published in 2022.

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
ByAnthony Burgess

1962 • 1,750 Readers • 72 pages 3.9

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Agostino

Agostino
ByAlberto Moravia

1945 • 8 Readers • 182 pages 1

Animal Farm

Animal Farm
ByGeorge Orwell,Boris Grabnar(Translator),+2 more

1945 • 4,943 Readers • 122 pages 4

Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn
ByJacqueline Woodson

2016 • 128 Readers • 192 pages 4

A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills
ByKazuo Ishiguro

1982 • 122 Readers • 183 pages 3.6

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

#1 of 2 in The Castaway Prince

1916 • 316 pages

Bonjour tristesse

Bonjour tristesse
ByFrançoise Sagan

1954 • 118 Readers • 154 pages 3.6

Candide

Candide
ByVoltaire

1738 • 657 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web
ByE.B. White

1,116 Readers 4

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
ByThomas Mann,Michael Henry Heim(Translator)

1912 • 174 Readers • 160 pages 3.8

Dept. of Speculation

Dept. of Speculation
ByJenny Offill(Reader)

2014 • 206 Readers • 3 pages 3.7

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome
ByEdith Wharton

1911 • 217 Readers • 178 pages 3.2

Evil Under the Sun

#24 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Evil Under the Sun
ByAgatha Christie

1939 • 210 Readers • 282 pages 3.7

If Beale Street Could Talk

1974 • 249 Readers 4.4

If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

1947 • 164 Readers • 198 pages 4.5

July's People

July's People
ByNadine Gordimer

1981 • 35 Readers • 210 pages 3.2

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
ByWilliam Golding

1954 • 3,273 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Lucy

Lucy
ByJamaica Kincaid

1990 • 49 Readers 4

Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 653 Readers • 295 pages 4.5

Middle Passage

Middle Passage
ByCharles R. Johnson

17 Readers 4.7

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway
ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 815 Readers • 282 pages 3.7

No One Writes to the Colonel

No One Writes to the Colonel
ByGabriel García Márquez,J.S. Bernstein(Translator)

1961 • 138 Readers • 84 pages 3.8

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach
ByIan McEwan

2007 • 157 Readers • 203 pages 3.6

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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1962 • 296 Readers • 104 pages 3.8

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
ByJeanette Winterson

1985 • 195 Readers • 176 pages 3.6

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Pale Horse, Pale Rider
ByKatherine Anne Porter

1939 • 17 Readers • 175 pages

Passing

Passing
ByNella Larsen

1929 • 293 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

#1 of 2 in Different Seasons

1982 • 154 Readers • 181 pages 4.4

Sula

Sula
ByToni Morrison

1973 • 355 Readers • 174 pages 4

Surfacing

Surfacing
ByMargaret Atwood

1972 • 67 Readers • 206 pages 3.6

The Awakening

The Awakening
ByKate Chopin

1899 • 20 Readers • 343 pages 3.3

The Ballad of the Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Café
ByCarson McCullers

1951 • 69 Readers • 141 pages 4.2

The Country Girls

#1 of 3 in The Country Girls Trilogy

The Country Girls
ByEdna O'Brien

1960 • 24 Readers • 196 pages 4.1

The Dry Heart

The Dry Heart
ByNatalia Ginzburg,Frances Frenaye(Translator),+1 more

1947 • 53 Readers • 88 pages 4.2

The Fifth Child

#1 of 2 in Ben Lovatt

The Fifth Child
ByDoris Lessing

1988 • 44 Readers • 159 pages 3.1

The Ghost Writer

#1 of 4 in Zuckerman Bound

The Ghost Writer
ByPhilip Roth

1979 • 44 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 4,116 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star
ByClarice Lispector,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

3 • 214 Readers • 100 pages 3.9

The Hours

The Hours
ByMichael Cunningham

1998 • 232 Readers • 244 pages 4

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street
BySandra Cisneros

1984 • 400 Readers • 110 pages 3.6

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 727 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1971 • 606 Readers • 6h 48m 4

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter
ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2006 • 101 Readers • 140 pages 3.8

The Lover

#1 of 2 in The Lover

The Lover
ByMarguerite Duras

1984 • 148 Readers • 123 pages 3.6

The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys
ByColson Whitehead

2019 • 630 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea
ByErnest Hemingway

1952 • 1,822 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Perfect Nanny

The Perfect Nanny
ByLeila Slimani

2018 • 110 Readers • 242 pages 3.4

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1934 • 146 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1961 • 174 Readers • 164 pages 3.6

The Red Badge of Courage

1895 • 9 Readers • 151 pages 2.5

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea

1963 • 360 Readers • 144 pages 3.8

The Stranger

The Stranger
ByAlbert Camus,Matthew Ward(Translator)

1942 • 2,572 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart
ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 827 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

Tokyo Ueno Station

Tokyo Ueno Station
ByMiri Yū,Morgan Giles(Translator)

2014 • 175 Readers • 197 pages 3.3

Uncle Tom's children

Uncle Tom's children
ByRichard Wright

1938 • 9 Readers • 338 pages 4.5

Waiting For The Barbarians

1980 • 97 Readers • 165 pages 3.9

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 1,194 Readers • 146 pages 3.9

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 337 Readers • 189 pages 3.4