261: 31 Short Books for Busy People
In This Episode:
A list of short books, because life is short, and you need to make your reading goals.
(a sequel to the episode “22 Short Books”)
THE EP. 261 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher: Suspicion by Seicho Matsumoto, My Street by Therese Bowman
ALSO MENTIONED:
Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
People from My Neighborhood by Kawakami Hiromi
The Guest Cat by Hiraide Takashi
On Community by Casey Plett
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Grief is For People by Sloane Crosley
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin
On Bullfighting by À.L. Kennedy
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christopher: Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, The Hole by Pyawn Heh Yung, translated by Sora Kim-Russell, The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen, The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig translated by Joel Rotenberg
