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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
Agostino
Animal Farm
Another Brooklyn
A Pale View of Hills
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bonjour tristesse
Candide
Charlotte's Web
Death in Venice
Dept. of Speculation
Ethan Frome
Evil Under the Sun
If Beale Street Could Talk
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
July's People
Lord of the Flies
Lucy
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Middle Passage
Mrs Dalloway
No One Writes to the Colonel
On Chesil Beach
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Passing
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Sula
Surfacing
The Awakening
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Country Girls
The Dry Heart
The Fifth Child
The Ghost Writer
The Great Gatsby
The Hour of the Star
The Hours
The House on Mango Street
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lost Daughter
The Lover
The Nickel Boys
The Old Man and the Sea
The Perfect Nanny
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
The Red Badge of Courage
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
The Stranger
Things Fall Apart
Tokyo Ueno Station
Uncle Tom's children
Waiting For The Barbarians
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Wide Sargasso Sea