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Anonymous No.24537221 [Report] >>24537242 >>24537479 >>24537501 >>24537734 >>24538295 >>24540001 >>24541367
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.
Anonymous No.24537242 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
Adam in eden by carlos fuentes is very easy to read, also keep the aspidistra flying by orwell
Anonymous No.24537260 [Report] >>24537322
Read The Crocodile, by Dostoevsky.
Anonymous No.24537266 [Report]
Flowers for Algernon
Anonymous No.24537296 [Report]
K. Vonnegut's short stories are excellent
Anonymous No.24537322 [Report]
>>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.
Anonymous No.24537390 [Report] >>24537645
Dream Story
The Royal Game
Anonymous No.24537395 [Report]
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
Anonymous No.24537479 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
Anonymous No.24537501 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
Corndog Zen by Wallace Mack (inb4 buy an ad) it's very sublime and the author is a lit-izen :)
Anonymous No.24537645 [Report] >>24539476
>>24537390
>The Royal Game
it's bad
Anonymous No.24537734 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
The Tao Te Ching
Way of the Cross and Dragon
Rescue Party
Ecclesiastes
The Tower of the Elephant
Anonymous No.24537773 [Report]
society of the spectacle is a fun overnight read if you dont need sleep
Anonymous No.24537811 [Report]
Quenta Silmarillion part of the Silmarillion
Anonymous No.24538173 [Report]
Goosebumps
Anonymous No.24538216 [Report]
Anonymous No.24538295 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
The Necrophiliac by Wittkop
Whatever by Houellebecq
Anonymous No.24539476 [Report] >>24540021
>>24537645
Why
Anonymous No.24540001 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
Arrabal's Viva la Muerte! (The book, not the movie)
Anonymous No.24540021 [Report]
>>24539476
too contrived
Anonymous No.24541270 [Report]
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Anonymous No.24541367 [Report]
>>24537221 (OP)
Read some Plato's dialogue, e.g. Menon etc.
Anonymous No.24541698 [Report]