Readers come in varying degrees of attention span, enthusiasm, interests and reading time. We’ll admit that some books out there are just simply too lengthy to be completed in days, even weeks, depending on our daily schedules. The question of “how fast can I finish reading this book” has been perhaps a crucial question especially to those who’re just starting out reading or if you just want to get back into it after a long hiatus.
Hence why we created this post. We’ve listed down 39 of the most popular and highly recommended books that you can read in one sitting. That still depends on a lot of factors, but it’s definitely and highly doable. This list has been curated from a Reddit’s post here and we encourage you to share your thoughts on this if you know other books which we’ve missed out.
Happy reading!
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Not all of the titles listed down below are free. Browse through them, find one that fancies you and start reading.
- Of Mice and Men (112 pages) by John Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea (132 pages) by Ernest Hemingway
- Tuesdays With Morrie (224 pages) by Mitch Albom
- Slaughter House 5 (215 pages) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Ubik (288 pages) by Philip K Dick
- I Am Legend (160 pages) by Richard Matheson
- A Moveable Feast (181 pages) by Ernest Hemingway
- The Alchemist (197 pages) by Paulo Coelho
- The Stranger (123 pages) by Albert Camus
- Animal Farm (122 pages) by George Orwell
- The Pearl (96 pages) by John Steinbeck
- All My Friends are Superheroes (120 pages) by Andrew Kaufman
- Silk (91 pages) by Alessandro Baricco
- The Sense of an Ending (150 pages) by Julian Barnes
- Wide Sargasso Sea (171 pages) by Jean Rhys
- The Lieutenant of Inishmore (80 pages) by Martin McDonagh
- The Little Prince (83 pages) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Starship Troopers (263 pages) by Robert A. Heinlein
- Milkweed (208 pages) by Jerry Spinelli
- War of the Worlds (256 pages) by H.G. Wells
- Heart of Darkness (188 pages) by Joseph Conrad
- Childhood’s End (214 pages) by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (254 pages) by Oscar Wilde
- The Call of the Wild (231 pages) by Jack London
- Three Men in a Boat (184 pages) by Jerome K. Jerome
- Wolf In White Van (224 pages) by John Darniell
- Waiting for Godot (109 pages) by Samuel Beckett
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (192 pages) by George Saunders
- Anthem (105 pages) by Ayn Rand
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (112 pages) by Richard Bach
- Siddhartha (160 pages) by Hermann Hesse
- In Watermelon Sugar (144 pages) by Richard Brautigan
- The Art of Racing in the Rain (321 pages) by Garth Stein
- Ishmael (266 pages) by Daniel Quinn
- The Buddha in the Attic (129 pages) by Julia Otsuka
- The Strange Library (96 pages) by Haruki Murakami
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (288 pages) by Alfred Lansing
- The Invention of Morel (103 pages) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Norwegian Wood (296 pages) by Haruki Murakami
