100 Short Books You Can Read in an Afternoon @LiterateTexan
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Flatland – Edwin A. Abbott

A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Carmilla – Sheridan Le Fanu

Cousin Phillis – Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

The Battle of Life – Charles Dickens

The Cricket on the Hearth – Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man – Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Silas Marner – George Eliot

King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

She: A History of Adventure – H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain – H. Rider Haggard

Daisy Miller – Henry James

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

The Piazza Tales – Herman Melville

Benito Cereno – Herman Melville

Billy Budd – Herman Melville

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – R.L. Stevenson

The Jewel of Seven Stars – Bram Stoker

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Duel – Joseph Conrad

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau – H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

The First Men in the Moon – H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde

Salome – Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince & Other Tales – Oscar Wilde

Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poor Folk – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Eternal Husband – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Goethe

A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov

First Love – Ivan Turgenev

Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Children – Ivan Turgenev

The Devil – Leo Tolstoy

Family Happiness – Leo Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

Hadji Murat – Leo Tolstoy

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

The Old Maid – Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Summer – Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson

The Sundial – Shirley Jackson

The Ballad of the Sad Café – Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Anthem – Ayn Rand

Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The Red Pony – John Steinbeck

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck

The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West

Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder

Nightwood – Djuna Barnes

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Fall – Albert Camus

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

Lady Susan – Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton

The Napoleon of Notting Hill – G.K. Chesterton

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Demian – Hermann Hesse

Klingsor’s Last Summer – Hermann Hesse

Green Mansions – W.H. Hudson

The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories – D.H. Lawrence

The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim

The Haunted Hotel – Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

The Ballad of Reading Gaol – Oscar Wilde

Ward No. 6 – Anton Chekhov

The Duel – Anton Chekhov

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

The Torrents of Spring – Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg – Mark Twain

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

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