Short Smart Reads
Discover the best short smart reads with our curated list of concise, insightful books. Perfect for quick learning and busy readers seeking impactful knowledge.
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A Night of Serious Drinking
by Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinkingis among Ren Daumal's most important literary works. It is a work of symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as …
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Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such …
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Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the …
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
by Danilo Kiš
"Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor …
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Yes
by Thomas Bernhard
The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at …
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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Jakob von Gunten
by Robert Walser
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a …
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In …
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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a …
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