Subscribe for more recommendations. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but all of the classics mentioned in this short can be read in a weekend if not a day. Sula and The Great Gatsby are two of the most eloquent on this list.
@@aku6196why? Animal farm was atrocious and disgusting. So were all the other books on his list. Read the Good, Good Pig. By Sy Montgomery. You’ll love it.
Sula Of mice and men Animal farm Franny and Zooey The catcher in the rye The great gatsby Nemesis A moveable feast The turn of the screw Heart of darkness Metamorphosis The lord of the flies
Please add to the list We by Zamyatin, Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky, A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn, and Ways of Seeing by Berger.
Loved these recs! Animal Farm is still one of the best written works, very translatable and very easy to read. My kids absolutely adored this book growing up!
Another great option for a day read is H.G. Wells’ “Time Machine” brilliant writing and story work in such a short novella. You can also now say you’ve read the inspiration for Doctor Who and pretty much any franchise with time machines and/or time travel.
Importance of being earnest. Although it’s a play, it’s a short and humorous read. Took me way too long to finish it, but it’s quite short. I want to watch it irl someday.
I’ve read many of those books but they’ve all taken me a really long time to read. Maybe that was just for processing but I highly doubt I could read any of those in one day.
Excellent selection! Every kid should have read all these books by the time they graduate high school. At my HS, we read "Animal Farm" (and "1984"), "Catcher ...", "Of Mice ...", "Lord of the Flies" by 10th grade.
The Invisible Man by HG Wells is a quick read, genuinely hilarious, and features the most absurd angry wet cat of a man in classic lit who keeps interrupting his own dramatic speeches by sneezing. Highly recommend.
As a student in Germany, I have had enough of kafka. I have been analysing his work for so many years that I'm starting to wonder of there are no other German writers. I'll stick with the other ones thank you :')
Thank You SO MUCH for talking and recommend Classics ❤❤❤ 😊 It's just awful how much trash YA literature it's out there and young people think is "aWeSoMe" because they haven't read the classics and therefore they don't have a reference to know what GOOD LITERATURE actually is. 😅 ❤
@@joea6296I finished it just 2 minutes ago. My god. What a read! Just be sure to think deeply on everything, and not just glide without understanding the meaning
Great recommendations. When it comes to Joseph Conrad, I’ve always been partial to YOUTH There’s a part about feeling the passage of time that hits me every time I return to it “I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more-the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort-to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires-and expires, too soon, too soon-before life itself.”
I was about to embark on a 6 hour ferry journey from Oban in Scotland to the Western Isles. I picked up 'Catcher in the Rye' in a book shop for something to alleviate the boredom of the crossing. 1 hour into the journey I started staring out the window to alleviate the boredom of the book.
In the Great Gatsby nothing happens and if you think Marlon Brando was unfathomable in Apocalypse Now, don't worry; Heart of Darkness is just as unfathomable. Catch 22 I read and then immediately re-read as I thought it was so funny and absorbing. (I have no friends to tell all this to.)
I'm actually reading the Lord of the flies right now. Bought it around 3 years ago but only started reading it a couple days ago. I loved the movie, so I'm really interested how the book is since I heard there were some differences.
For any aspiring writers here’s a famous meta line about writing in one of Roth’s books: “I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence.”
Bruv i dont know abour the other books, but I have read Kafka's Metamorphosis multiple times and each time has fucked me up real bad. Such a short book but it stays with you forever. If you were to read that book in 24 hours, that would depress you so hard and ruin your day, emotionally speaking.
Adding some more short classics written by women: Awakening by Kate Chopin The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Passing by Nella Larsen Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
You *can* read each of these in a day, but should you? They're novels (novellas in a couple of cases), not short stories - you'll never have a chance to encounter these books for the first time again, take your time, let your brain marinate, experience them at your own pace. Good books aren't a speed competition, they're the fabric of life. And this is a very good list, if a bit conservative.
The Heart of Darkness was described as the longest short novel you will ever read (or words to that effect). You may read this in a day, but you’ll be scratching your head for much longer.
I don’t know if “short books” = “readable” necessarily 😊 I’ve read a few of these classics and found that although they were physically short, they could be quite a slog to get through (and definitely didn’t take me only a day to read) and I wouldn’t necessarily recommend them to someone starting out with classics ! I’d rather recommend something longer but more accessible, perhaps something that follows more modern storytelling structures or something more gripping 😊 Anything written by Alexandre Dumas, Stefan Zweig, Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne… 1984 by Orwell is also more gripping than Animal Farm and would therefore be “easier” to read simply because you would want to pick up the book.
I have this book with short stories in it that’s burning in the back of my mind and I can’t find it anywhere I remember three stories but very badly One was a person in a house w talking walls another was some dude found a bug and another guy either stole it or killed and became translucent and the final one was some dude in a cave who used bats as clothes if anyone knows the name of this book PLEASE tell me
Did not enjoy Turn of the Screw. The plot and characters were good, somehow it was the writing. I had just read Moonstone by Collins before it and I loved that classic.
One of the few instances where I liked the movie more than the book. I liked the book, but it was too repetitive. The movie is among my all time favorites (the Leslie Howard version)
