16 Small Books That You Can Read In Just A Day

Only a bibliophile knows the importance of even a little bit of free time so that she can squeeze in some reading. There are also people other than hardcore bookworms, who are not perhaps as fanatic about books, but still like to read. But the lack of time in the fast paced life of today bars them from getting any reading done except for emails and WhatsApp messages.

But these 16 books are just about 100 pages long, give or take and you can totally finish them off within 3/4 hours at the most.

1. A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf

 

2. Animal Farm by George Orwell

This amazing book will give you a better perspective of how politics works.

 

3. The old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

 

4. Queenie by Alice Munro

The random happinesses and creepinesses of a newly wed woman – this book!

 

5. The Outsider by Albert Camus

This is perhaps one of Camus’ lesser known books, and the very reason why you have to read it.

 

6. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Márquez

Doesn’t the very title make you want to read it?

 

7. Dubliners by James Joice

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe…”

 

8. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The world you live in – is it what you want or is it the one they made you believe that you want?

 

9. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

 

10. Sula by Toni Morrison

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

 

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

What would you do if your inner beast found a way to come out each night?

 

12. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

“We live as we dream–alone.”

 

13. Delhi is not far by Ruskin Bond

You know what Ruskin Bond does? He talks very casually about simple things in life, like reading out a newspaper piece or discussing it over tea. And then drops one of his magnificent phrases or words and sentences and you just can’t help but disintegrate in the writing!

 

14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Imagine a world without books, can you?

 

15. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read this book, old sport.

 

16. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach

“Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

Time to get your reading game up a bit, people.

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