
126 Short Stories / Books That You Can Read In A Sitting, Maybe Two

Regardless of your reading objectives, whether its quality or quantity, this list represents a guide in which you can find stories that you can finish in a sitting, maybe two. The titles that you find here range from 41 pages to 369 pages long. To those who wish to take a break from a previous long-read or just to steer towards a different reading style, we hope you sit down to read these stories, maybe after a bit of gardening, maybe while lying in the bed lazying around, as the sun is setting down or when it’s rising. After finishing one or a couple, that should spur you to try to read dozens more.
126 Short Stories / Books That You Can Read In A Sitting
- The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King – (41 pages)
- The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster – (48 pages)
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell – (48 pages)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka – (51 pages)
- Really BAD Poetry by Irving T. Duck – (54 pages)
- Wool by Hugh Howey – (58 pages)
- 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think by Raif Badawi – (60 pages)
- Larkspur, or A Necromancer’s Romance by V. M. Jaskiernia – (60 pages)
- Blasted by Sarah Kane – (61 pages)
- The Grownup by Gillian Flynn – (64 pages)
- Anthem by Ayn Rand – (66 pages)
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – (70 pages)
- Naming the Bane by Kal S. Davian – (74 pages)
- The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain – (75 pages)
- Bardo99 by Cecile Pineda – (79 pages)
- Saint’s Testimony by Frank O’Connor – (80 pages)
- Chess by Stefan Zweig – (83 pages)
- Darkness Visible by William Styron – (84 pages)
- Re-thinking History by Keith Jenkins – (84 pages)
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy – (86 pages)
- Candide by Voltaire – (94 pages)
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck – (96 pages)
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London – (98 pages)
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Cesares – (103 pages)
- Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett – (108 pages)
- Night by Elie Wiesel – (109 pages)
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London – (111 pages)
- Animal farm by George Orwell – (112 pages)
- Cove by Cynan Jones – (112 pages)
- Wenjack by Joseph Boyden – (112 pages)
- A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal – (121 pages)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus – (123 pages)
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – (124 pages)
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran – (127 pages)
- Southern mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – (128 pages)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt – (131 pages)
- HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen – (132 pages)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – (132 pages)
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin – (135 pages)
- Notes From Underground by F.M. Dostoyevsky – (136 pages)
- The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide – (140 pages)
- The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker – (142 pages)
- 33 Days by Léon Werth – (144 pages)
- God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams – (144 pages)
- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan – (144 pages)
- Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel Short stories – (144 pages)
- The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck – (144 pages)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – (144 pages)
- When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka – (144 pages)
- The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold – (144 pages)
- All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman – (145 pages)
- Life Of Pi by Yann Martel – (146 pages)
- The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft – (146 pages)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson – (146 pages)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess – (150 pages)
- One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch by Solzhenitsyn – (150 pages)
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse – (152 pages)
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix – (153 pages)
- Out of Grief, Singing by Charlene Diehl – (155 pages)
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff – (158 pages)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder – (160 pages)
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson – (162 pages)
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes – (163 pages)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino – (165 pages)
- Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum – (166 pages)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl – (170 pages)
- No One Writes To The Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – (170 pages)
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson – (172 pages)
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire – (173 pages)
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges – (174 pages)
- Planet of The Apes by Pierre Boulle – (174 pages)
- Sula by Toni Morrison – (174 pages)
- Revenge by Yoko Ogawa – (176 pages)
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon – (178 pages)
- The Giver by Lois Lowry – (179 pages)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – (180 pages)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – (180 pages)
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton – (180 pages)
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami – (181 pages)
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck – (181 pages)
- Fat City by Leonard Gardner – (183 pages)
- Child of God by Cormac McCarthy – (186 pages)
- Slab by Selah Saterstrom – (186 pages)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – (187 pages)
- Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews – (188 pages)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad – (188 pages)
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf – (192 pages)
- The Art of Killing Well by Marco Malvaldi – (192 pages)
- The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset – (192 pages)
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Becoming by Sebastian Junger – (192 pages)
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom – (192 pages)
- The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin – (193 pages)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom – (196 pages)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – (197 pages)
- Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh – (198 pages)
- Carrie by Stephen King – (199 pages)
- The Coma by Alex Garland – (200 pages)
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick – (202 pages)
- Wreck of the Gossamer: Puzzle box Chronicles by Shawn P. McCarthy – (202 pages)
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer – (207 pages)
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk – (208 pages)
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – (215 pages)
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang – (216 pages)
- Nerve by Jeanne Ryan – (220 pages)
- Richard Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout – (224 pages)
- The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint by Tommy Chong – (224 pages)
- The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich – (224 pages)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – (224 pages)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon – (226 pages)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – (227 pages)
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz – (240 pages)
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy – (241 pages)
- The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad – (243 pages)
- Sand Omnibus by Hugh Howey – (252 pages)
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman – (260 pages)
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind, translated by John E. Woods – (263 pages)
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk – (272 pages)
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu – (273 pages)
- Any Man by Amber Tamblyn – (288 pages)
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robert Sloan – (288 pages)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes – (311 pages)
- Colorless by Haruki Murakami – (314 pages)
- Phoenix Island by John Dixon – (320 pages)
- Room by Emma Donoghue – (352 pages)
- Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh – (369 pages)
- The Martian by Andy Weir – (369 pages)
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