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The Shortest Novels Written by 20 Authors You Should Have Read by Now

"So you want to get into Pynchon (or Bolaño, or Morrison, or Woolf) but you're short on time—and perhaps on attention span? Click no further, reader. There are plenty of famous authors whose work, while appealing in theory, may seem impenetrable—whether because the books themselves are notoriously difficult or because they've written so many books that you don't know where to start."
- Emily Temple
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Antwerp (Robert Bolano)
Antwerp
1
Robert Bolano
Child of God (Cormac McCarthy)
Child of God
2
Cormac McCarthy
Sula (Toni Morrison)
Sula
3
Toni Morrison
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
4
Thomas Pynchon
The Eye (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Eye
5
Vladimir Nabokov
Point Omega
Point Omega
6
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
7
James Baldwin
Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf)
Between the Acts
8
Virginia Woolf
Ray (Barry Hannah)
Ray
9
Barry Hannah
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog
10
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11
James Joyce
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
12
Jane Austen
Train Dreams (Denis Johnson)
Train Dreams
13
Denis Johnson
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
14
Ernest Hemingway
Hear the Wind Sing
Hear the Wind Sing
15
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky; E.D. Philip Smith)
Notes From the Underground
16
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; E.D. Philip Smith
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Hard Times
17
Charles Dickens
The Fifth Child (Doris Lessing)
The Fifth Child
18
Doris Lessing
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
19
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Breast
The Breast
20
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