One of the many benefits of reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is that, in addition to being an excellent novel, it includes a list of short (about 200 pages or two hours to read) novels. Once my current stack of books is a little shorter, I’ll try reading or rereading books on this list.
- Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- The Shadow-Line by Jospeh Conrad
- The All of It by Jeannette Haien
- Winter in the Blood by James Welch
- Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- First Love by Ivan Turgenev
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
- Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai
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