short classics you can read in a day 🍂📚☕️ a guide for beginners

ten short & easy classics you can read in a day! these are recommendations for beginners to the world of classics, my favourite type of book!! i have watched a lot of these types of videos where i feel like books that are one level above *beginner* books are recommended! this list keeps it pretty basic, short & easy to read!! enjoy :)

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[kirawasadiver]

what's your favourite short classic? or classic in general? I'm currently reading a thicker one rn which will pop up in a future video... hint: it's a Bronte sister. I will be responding to comments later today when I wake up (it's 12:20am here)!!

[muskndusk]

For anyone interested in reading the Narnia books, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe isn't the first book in terms of the story chronology, but the second. Best to start with The Magician's Nephew.
To read them in the chronology followed by the action in the novels, this is the best order:
1. Magician's Nephew
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle.

[kirawasadiver]

the metamorphosis by kafka would be in this if i owned a copy

[trance_im_wald]

Also, a great childrens horror is Coraline by Neil Gaiman! Read it in one day and adore it haha. Also, if you're looking for a great childrens fantasy I can recommend The Neverending Story by Michael Ende! (It's a little long, but easy to read!)

[TheLonesomeBricoleur]

I read Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man* just once, over 20 years ago, & I honestly feel that I have not yet experienced another literary masterwork of such high quality.
I'm very intrigued to learn how well it holds up for young folks nowadays, too!

[cooldog]

Good selection! A real nice short book I liked was the old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway.

[Krustenkaese]

the writing style is what usually turns me off to classics. A lot of the ones I read never tended to be the easiest books to read, so after a while I stopped trying to get into them.
But there were a few I genuinely liked, namely 'Of Mice and Men' and also 'Heart of Darkness'. Of Mice and Men is just written so beautifully and directly. There's not much flowery descriptions going on and the story is being carried with a lot of dialogue and act descriptions. It's very direct, moves fast and it's quite short. Easy read.
Heart of Darkness was a whole different beast. There's so much imagery in here and the book turns more and more into a fever dream as it progresses (Apocalypse Now is based on this book, so I kinda knew what I was getting into), but the way Joseph Conrad depicts the vastness of the unknown and still manages to dwarf this vastness with the savage brutality of the slave-trading white man in 18th century West Africa was so amazing. Though I try not to praise this book too much for its trailblazing early critique of european colonialism (this book is from 1899), because people who are much more educated on race relations and racial studies have criticized this book, i can't deny that I was hooked by it and the book didn't let me go until I finished it.
I also liked Frankenstein. Tried reading 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and just couldnt get past how this book tries to critique racism, only to effectively create the white savior trope. It's a book for white people that gives them an excuse to feel good about themselves, without actively addressing the issues this book says it touches on, but actually doesn't at all. It's a deeply racist book. I dont know why its being taught in schools.
And despite me being easily discouraged by hard-to-read books, I actually loved reading Shakespeare in school. Macbeth is genuinely so insane and emo and amazing. Hamlet is great. Julius Caesar is awesome to watch as a play.

[tashaaaaaaaaaaA]

I always recommend Bambi (by Felix Salten) for classics beginners. It’s a children’s novel but it is pretty dark in places, and has a really nice atmosphere different to the Disney version lol. I love H G Wells too, I did War of the Worlds in college and it was so fun.

[mistery-ed]

Animal Farm was the first book that came to mind when I thought "short classic".
Here's a couple more...
The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Only 96 pages and excellent.
Howl by Allen Ginsburg. Beat poetry classic! "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness starving hysterical naked dragging
A short story in a song you can listen to.. The Gift by The Velvet Underground. One channel has John Cale telling the story and the other channel has the band.
Check it out!

[Misslivros]

Awesome video! I added to my list Animal farm, the lion, and book of longing 🤩

[kimbarbeaureads]

I really enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle, however, the copy I read had a Foreword that spoiled it for me. I am still angry about that. I learned bot to read forewords from now on. Fahrenheit 451 and Frankenstein are my favorite classics.

[milesknightestrada]

Animal Farm is my third favourite book, right behind James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's untouchable The Lost World. It is in a sense a shorter, better written, and more effective construct of 1984. Just re-read it for the first time in over half a decade. Wonderful!
The Island Of Dr. Moreau, in company with A Modern Utopia and Men Like Gods, is Wells' best work apart from The War Of The Worlds, and my favourite by him. It, with the other two, rank as number eight on my list.

[davidellis]

Hi Kira 👋 - I just read The Stranger by Camus for the first time since my school days. It's still cool. I have that Tony Fletcher 📖 about The Smiths on the shelf. That's a long .. long .. book, but a good read. Have a Great Weekend 👍

[MonieMuse]

I’m a big fan of poetry, and the book of longing sounds amazing 😻

[Bookmarks]

What a coincidence! I'm currently reading a Shirley Jackson book: The Haunting of Hill House. I highly recommend it. 👌 We Have Always Lived in the Castle was also the first book I read by her and it's a favorite.

[bmhernandez]

I just reread The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin. It is fantastic and dense but very readable at 175 pages. It is a philosophical sci-fi story about a man whose dreams alter reality.Great vid as always!

[matthewdevereux]

Thanks so much for this very informative and interesting video with some excellent recommendations for further reading. I played the first part of this video with some Ukrainian students of English today and we had a good conversation about books to read for them in English. I very much appreciate the effort you put into this video and chose it from a number of different videos about classics because you focused particularly on easier to read works which is better for my students.

[dariiofernando]

i will pick up animal farm, and maybe the next book to follow is Island of Doctor Moreau, im not sure .
next time you could make a guide to sci-fi classics for beginners ^^

[Pubrick]

3:53 animal harm... in a fictional book...

[dickturpin]

Spotted in a book on a hospital bookshelf: 'Whosoever reads, mimes or plays an instrument will be shone on from above.' Anon.