Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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if you're feeling burnt out, start the new month with a short book -- here are twenty you can read in a day or two

books:
The Alienist by Machado de Assis (1882)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) 
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (1913)
Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940) 
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (1942)
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg (1962) 
They by Kay Dick (1977)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (2009)
The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
Assembly by Natasha Brown (2021)
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan (2022)
The Details by Ia Genberg (2022) 
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken (2024)
Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar (1929)
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (2002)
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (2007) 
Ties by Domenico Starnone (2014)

people / shorty september 2026:
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