any recs?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Eliza, by Barry Pain. Humourous short stories about a stuck up Edwardian clerk that's quite emotional out of the blue at the end. 90 pages.

The Dunwich Horror.

Typhoon
A Hero of Our Time
Train Dreams

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A Short Stay in Hell

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annihilation is like 208 pages but can be read in a day or two

A Month in the Country

Beowulf
Notes from the Underground
The Crying of Lot 49
The Vipers Tangle
Animal Farm

With no intro the Aeneid is only like 250 pages, with poetry spacing. The Inferno isn't that long by itself either, although it doubles with proper notes (which you kind of need)

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There's a particular literary form that may interest you, OP. It's called the "novella". Look it up.

Historically, publishers have (apparently) hated them because they don't yield as much money, which is kind of crazy to me because people are more likely to actually read a short book than a doorstopper. On the other hand, from the business point of view, publishers don't care whether people actually read their books as long as they get their money. If someone buys a more expensive doorstopper that they never read, the publisher still has their money. I think as people's attention spans have tended toward zero in the past twenty years, publishers may be re-evaluating the viability of the novella. Maybe sell them as a bullshit product (read: an e-book, a computer file) rather than as something that actually counts: bound printed matter.

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For you? No.

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maybe there is less margin? I'm guessing there is fixed overhead to printing a book, with the number of pages and ink only having a small marginal impact. Since consumers expect novellas to be cheaper, it might lead to lower margins

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>>24509857 (OP)
pages is a noob term
try wordcount
The Road by McCarthy is generally printed at ~300 pages but is only 60kish words

but to answer your question:
The Pearl by Steinbeck

Hadji Murat
The Cossacks

A Hero of Our Time

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The Fictions of Borges

Also this.

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I wouldn’t say it’s great but god bless you dr kevorkian is fun.

This rocks. It's like On The Road but in South America and way less degenerate.

Also may I suggest this? It's oddly very enjoyable despite being written as an autobiography and the confession of sorts of a serial killer. My favourite bit was where he was in Panama wrangling nigs for United Fruit lmao.

Here's my top 5:
Envy by Olesha
Snow country by Kawabata
The Overcoat by Gogol
Baal Babylon(Viva la Muerte!) by Arrabal
Kuolleet Omenapuut(Dead Appletrees, untranslated) by Lehtonen