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30 Best Short Books You'll Ever Read
rd.Com, Via Amazon.Com (8) Short and sweetBooks create a wonderful refuge from the hubbub of everyday life, but unless you're on vacation, it can be hard to set aside long stretches of time for reading. How many half-started books have you abandoned because you'd forgotten most of the plot after months away from the story? We can't provide you with more time, but we can give you a list of excellent short books that you can finish in a few brief sittings.
Quick reads are not a genre unto themselves, which means there isn't an agreed-upon length marking the line between long and short books. That said, most so-called short books have no more than 250 pages. We've capped our picks at that page count, but the vast majority fall well under 200 pages. Such slim stories give you the best chance of attaining that feeling of accomplishment that comes from finishing a great book.
In an effort to provide something for everyone, our roundup includes a range of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, from classics to new releases. These books have won prizes, received stellar reviews from critics, and are highly rated by readers like you. If these slim picks get you back into a reading habit, be sure to also check out our best books of all time, classic books, poetry books, mystery books, and books by female authors.
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1. The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos RuffinPage count: 192
From the author of We Cast a Shadow, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, comes a short story collection that brings New Orleans to life. Published in August 2021, The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You examines characters living on the margins of the Big Easy. Whether rendering an army vet, a couple struggling for money, or a group of teenagers, Maurice Carlos Ruffin attends to his characters with wit, joy, and magnificent heart. Some of the stories can be consumed in a single sitting. All of the stories deserve a second read. After that, check out more great books by Black authors.
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The Cambridge History Of The English Short Story
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.
'… the book covers enormous ground - colonial stories, rural stories, queer stories, comic stories - and makes room for obscure writers beside the heavyweights … with this approach, an expert writes each chapter. Highlights include Heather Ingman on the Irish short story and Roger Luckhurst on weird fiction, that amorphous zone between horror, fantasy and surrealism.' Chris Power, New Statesman
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× Product detailsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Dominic Head1. Early modern diversity: the origins of English short fiction Barbara Korte2. Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Donald J. Newman3. Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales Jessica Cox4. The Victorian potboiler: novelists writing short stories Sophie Gilmartin5. Fable, myth and folktale: the writing of oral and traditional story forms Andrew Harrison6. The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic Robert Hampson7. The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine Winnie Chan8. The modernist short story: fractured perspectives Claire Drewery9. War stories: the short story in World Wars I and II Ann-Marie Einhaus10. The short story in Ireland to 1945: a national literature Heather Ingman11. The short story in Ireland since 1945: a modernizing tradition Heather Ingman12. The short story in Scotland: from oral tale to dialectal style Timothy C. Baker13. The short story in Wales: cultivated regionalism Jane Aaron14. The understated art, English style Dean Baldwin15. The rural tradition in the English short story Dominic Head16. Metropolitan modernity: stories of London Neal Alexander17. Gender and genre: short fiction, feminism and female experience Sabine Coelsch-Foisner18. Queer short stories: an inverted history Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks19. Stories of Jewish identity: survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans Axel Stähler20. New voices: multicultural short stories Abigail Ward21. Settler stories: postcolonial short fiction Victoria Kuttainen22. After Empire: postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition John Thieme23. Ghost stories and supernatural tales Ruth Robbins24. The detective story: order from chaos Andrew Maunder25. Frontiers: science fiction and the British marketplace Paul March-Russell26. Weird stories: the potency of horror and fantasy Roger Luckhurst27. Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodernist stories David James28. Satirical stories: estrangement and social critique Sandie Byrne29. Comedic short fiction Richard Bradford30. Short story cycles: between the novel and the story collection Gerald Lynch31. The novella: between the novel and the story Gerri Kimber32. The short story visualized: adaptations and screenplays Linda Costanzo Cahir33. The short story anthology: shaping the canon Lynda Prescott34. The institution of creative writing Ailsa Cox35. Short story futures Julian MurphetBibliographyIndex.
Look InsideDominic Head, University of NottinghamDominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School from 2007–10. He has written extensively on forms of literature and is author of The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (Cambridge, 2002), and editor of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2006).
ContributorsDominic Head, Barbara Korte, Donald J. Newman, Jessica Cox, Sophie Gilmartin, Andrew Harrison, Robert Hampson, Winnie Chan, Claire Drewery, Ann-Marie Einhaus, Heather Ingman, Timothy C. Baker, Jane Aaron, Dean Baldwin, Neal Alexander, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Brett Josef Grubisic, Carellin Brooks, Axel Stähler, Abigail Ward, Victoria Kuttainen, John Thieme, Ruth Robbins, Andrew Maunder, Paul March-Russell, Roger Luckhurst, David James, Sandie Byrne, Richard Bradford, Gerald Lynch, Gerri Kimber, Linda Costanzo Cahir, Lynda Prescott, Ailsa Cox, Julian Murphet
English Literature GCSE: Classic Stories
A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats.
Through BBC Sounds, you and your class can enjoy unabridged audio versions of classic novels.
These classic novels have been chosen because they appear on GCSE syllabuses. As a learning resource, they are unabridged and unsanitized and should be considered within the specific historical context in which they were written.
Suitable for teaching GCSE English Literature.
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