The BEST short classics. You can read most of these novels in a day

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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.

[scottmcarthur]

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.”

[oz]

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" xxx

[Designerteachertechie]

My heart. Was aching. When I first read OF MICE AND MEN, I was neither proud, nor fulfilled.

[dreamdarwish]

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

[ValentinoDeBellis]

Old Man and the Sea, one of my favorite books to read

[MllaIsMother]

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!

[FinnGarrin-Diaz]

Man I’ve been wanting to get into reading and this is just what I needed. Thanks bro

[Bones_McGee_]

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.

[solidgaming]

Journey to center of the earth is what got me to read more. Very good book

[lonelygovernment]

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 :')

[jitteryhands]

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.

[zethraelofteldrassil]

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.

[walkinghenry]

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.

[mikahina]

That was basically our reading collection for English class in Sweden. Some of them we read in elementary school though, mice and me and lord of the flies

[salamieryep]

Fahrenheit 451 is also a good one to add to the list

[joeynovack]

Notes from the underground -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read it again the next day

[noobanized_sapien]

Oh my gosh, aminal farm. Read this in college and that's when got passionate about classics.

[WeFightForever]

Of mice and men was one of the few books in school i actually read all of. Really liked that one.

[valeriemcqueen]

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. 😅 ❤

[HirilElfwraith]

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.