Short Books

[quietlady]

My attention span isn’t what it was, and it’s affected my appetite for reading, so I’ve found myself reading more short novels.
Book I’ve enjoyed:
Gwendoline Riley - My Phantoms
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
Sven Holm - Termush
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Herman Melville - Bartleby The Scrivener
Max Porter - Lanny
Max Porter - Shy
Max Porter - Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
Zadie Smith - The Embassy Of Cambodia
Otessa Moshfegh - McGlue
Sven Lindqvist - Exterminate All The Brutes
Michel Faber - D: A Tale Of Two Worlds
Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Rebecca Solnit - Men Explain Things To Me
Jonathan Ames - You Were Never Really Here
Emmanuel Carrère - The Adversary
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49
And I keep meaning to get around to reading Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart Of A Dog

Any other suggestions? They don’t have to be novels. There’s a couple of non-fiction in the

 

[quietlady]

Good morning. I have read these and enjoyed them. Edward Marston. :Railway detective
Graham Brack :A MAster Mecurius Mystery

Gyles Brandreth: : Mysteries, solved by Arthur Conan Doyle,and Oscar Wide

 

[hitmouse]

Master of Reality?
I'll give that a go.
The DK one is good in that series, also have the Selected Ambient Works Volume II (which is not as good, as there's no politics involved).

Oh yeah, think the only other one I've read is the Hole one and I've been meaning to get around to reading the Raincoats one for years, but given how much I loved Fresh Fruit... as a teenager, I imagine I'd almost certainly enjoy a book about it.

 

[OxfordPop]

The Rider by Tim Krabbe.

The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe.

 

[hitmouse]

Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer is very short and very good.

 

[petee]

A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch. 192 pages but they're small pages. i think i've read it three times.
e2a review Review: A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch

 

[Epona]

I was browsing for Xmas gifts for someone and found this anthology, it sounds fascinating, I don't know whether it might appeal to you Orang Utan but this thread immediately sprang to mind!

Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird

An anthology pulling together the stories of the forgotten women writers who pioneered and developed the ‘weird tale’ in the early 20th Century. The majority of the volume is never before republished material, exclusive to the BL collections. This title is a spiritual successor to Glimpses of...

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[Orang Utan]

I was browsing for Xmas gifts for someone and found this anthology, it sounds fascinating, I don't know whether it might appeal to you Orang Utan but this thread immediately sprang to mind!

Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird

An anthology pulling together the stories of the forgotten women writers who pioneered and developed the ‘weird tale’ in the early 20th Century. The majority of the volume is never before republished material, exclusive to the BL collections. This title is a spiritual successor to Glimpses of...

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Ta, I’ve seen other anthologies in that series but not that one. They all look interesting. This one already one my list:

Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain

Another Tales of the Weird anthology from John Miller, who previously edited Tales of the Tattooed and will publish The Philosophy of Tattoos with the British Library in Autumn 2020. The tales in this title span all regions of the U.K. – from the obviously eerie rural areas of Devon and...

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