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How to Be Well-Read in No Time: 100 Short Novels

From List Muse: "How to be well-read in no time: 100 short novels is a list of books that provides a varied glimpse of the written style of many of the great authors. A concise selection, the titles can be worked through over a very short period, or, alternatively, they can be sandwiched between larger classics in an even more ambitious reading program. For further reading suggestions see our Top 100 Novels of All Time."
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
1
Kurt Vonnegut
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
2
Franz Kafka
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
3
George Orwell
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
4
John Steinbeck
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
5
Virginia Woolf
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
6
Ernest Hemingway
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians
7
J.M. Coetzee
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
8
Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
9
Chinua Achebe
Home (Toni Morrison)
Home
10
Toni Morrison
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
11
Albert Camus
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
13
Italo Calvino
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
14
Joseph Conrad
The Day of the Owl (Leonardo Sciascia)
The Day of the Owl
15
Leonardo Sciascia
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
16
Graham Greene
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
17
Leo Tolstoy
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
18
H.G. Wells
The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Bookshop
19
Penelope Fitzgerald
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
20
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
21
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
22
Arthur Koestler
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
23
Oscar Wilde
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
24
Stephen Crane
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
25
J.D. Salinger
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
26
Ivan Turgenev
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
27
Hermann Hesse
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
28
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Turn of the Screw
29
Henry James
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
30
Lewis Carroll
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
31
Mark Twain
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
32
Jane Austen
Ethan From (Edith Wharton)
Ethan From
33
Edith Wharton
The Abbess of Crewe (Muriel Spark)
The Abbess of Crewe
34
Muriel Spark
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
35
Voltaire
Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Paramo
36
Juan Rulfo
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner
37
George Eliot
The Immoralist (Andre Gide)
The Immoralist
38
Andre Gide
Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
Therese Raquin
39
Emile Zola
Cain (José Saramago)
Cain
40
José Saramago
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