Great Short Books

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"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.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.92	835 reads
Agostino Alberto Moravia	1	3 reads
Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	3,832 reads
Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson	4	48 reads
A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro	3.63	67 reads
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce	0	0 reads
Bonjour tristesse Françoise Sagan	3.58	57 reads
Candide Voltaire	3.79	395 reads
Charlotte's Web E.B. White	3.97	950 reads
Death in Venice Thomas Mann Michael Henry Heim (Translator)	3.84	76 reads
Dept. of Speculation	3.72	104 reads
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton	3.21	132 reads
Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie	3.75	140 reads
If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.38	95 reads
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) Primo Levi	4.52	88 reads
July's People Nadine Gordimer	3.21	13 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	3.55	2,347 reads
Lucy Jamaica Kincaid	4	12 reads
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman	4.53	435 reads
Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson	4.67	7 reads
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf	3.73	347 reads
No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez J.S. Bernstein (Translator)	3.77	90 reads
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan	3.63	110 reads
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	3.82	136 reads
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson	3.59	89 reads
Pale Horse, Pale Rider Katherine Anne Porter	0	4 reads
Passing Nella Larsen	3.93	117 reads
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King	4.37	108 reads
Sula Toni Morrison	3.97	131 reads
Surfacing Margaret Atwood	3.63	32 reads
The Awakening Kate Chopin	3.3	13 reads
The Ballad of the Sad Café Carson McCullers	4.2	28 reads
The Country Girls Edna O'Brien	4.08	7 reads
The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg Frances Frenaye (Translator) نازنین احسانی‌طباطبایی (Translator)	4.19	17 reads
The Fifth Child Doris Lessing	3.09	12 reads
The Ghost Writer Philip Roth	3.61	22 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.72	3,183 reads
The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	3.87	90 reads
The Hours Michael Cunningham	3.98	118 reads
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	3.65	232 reads
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.92	338 reads
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin	4.05	309 reads
The Lost Daughter Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	3.84	58 reads
The Lover Marguerite Duras	3.63	43 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	301 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.69	1,247 reads
The Perfect Nanny Leila Slimani	3.42	54 reads
The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain	3.71	68 reads
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark	3.64	72 reads
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane	2.5	6 reads
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea Yukio Mishima	3.79	128 reads
The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	3.94	1,594 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.63	474 reads
Tokyo Ueno Station Miri Yū Morgan Giles (Translator)	3.33	63 reads
Uncle Tom's children Richard Wright	4.5	3 reads
Waiting For The Barbarians J.M. Coetzee	3.87	39 reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson	3.94	549 reads
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.43	145 reads