Quick reads -- books under 200 pages

55 great books under 200*pages (infographic)

Here’s the list:

  1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  2. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  4. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  7. Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamott
  8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (not the Complete Guide)
  9. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  10. Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
  11. The Neon Bible by John Toole
  12. Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
  13. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  14. Chronicle of Death Foretold by Gabriel Garciá Márquez
  15. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  16. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  17. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
  18. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  19. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  20. Being There by Jerzy Kosinki
  21. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
  22. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  23. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  24. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  25. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
  26. Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
  27. Black Orchids by Rex Stout
  28. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  29. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  30. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
  31. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  32. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  33. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  34. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
  35. Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garciá Márquez
  36. Grendel by John Gardner
  37. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  38. Flatland by Edwin Abbot
  39. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  40. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
  41. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
  42. Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
  43. The Girl on the Fridge by Edgar Keret
  44. Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky
  45. I And Thou by Martin Buber
  46. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
  47. Pafko at the Wall by Don Delilo
  48. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  49. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  50. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel
  51. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  52. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
  53. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  54. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  55. Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Re: Quick reads – books under 200 pages

Rape: A love story :hmmm: and that too on 200 pages. Might be a good plot for bollywood masala movie

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You should stick to Old Man and the Sea.

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I don’t like Robinson Crusoe (urf aadam bezar) type stuff :nahi:

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Two trivia abt Robinson Cruse

  1. My bro got this book as prize for being first in his class.
  2. My grandfather (dada) used to call our family priest (vadyaar) Robinson Crusoe. Because Vadyaar sported a long beard.

Re: Quick reads -- books under 200 pages

lols.

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Very interesting list.

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I was obsessed with it back in school.. :pcg:

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whats the situation now?