Thread 24537221

Give me some books I can finish in one sitting, please. I don’t mind if it’s fiction or non-fiction. I need to get back into reading and spending less time melting my brain with screens.

>>24537221 (OP)
Adam in eden by carlos fuentes is very easy to read, also keep the aspidistra flying by orwell

Read The Crocodile, by Dostoevsky.

Flowers for Algernon

K. Vonnegut's short stories are excellent

>>24537260
Seconding this + also recommending Dream of a ridiculous man by the same author

If you are new to reading you could try simpler short stories like Lovecraft's or Asimov's. Or even Chesterton's Father Brown.

Dream Story
The Royal Game

Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner. It's in the collection "In A Lonely Place" that was recently republished. Known as one of the best horror short stories ever and it served as the inspiration for the Blair Witch Project

>>24537221 (OP)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon

>>24537221 (OP)
Corndog Zen by Wallace Mack (inb4 buy an ad) it's very sublime and the author is a lit-izen :)

>>24537390
>The Royal Game
it's bad

>>24537221 (OP)
The Tao Te Ching
Way of the Cross and Dragon
Rescue Party
Ecclesiastes
The Tower of the Elephant

society of the spectacle is a fun overnight read if you dont need sleep

Quenta Silmarillion part of the Silmarillion

Goosebumps

>>24537221 (OP)
The Necrophiliac by Wittkop
Whatever by Houellebecq

>>24537645
Why

>>24537221 (OP)
Arrabal's Viva la Muerte! (The book, not the movie)

>>24539476
too contrived

Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

>>24537221 (OP)
Read some Plato's dialogue, e.g. Menon etc.