Books that You Can (and Should) Read in One Sitting

Reading In One Sitting

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

By E. Crane • 4 years ago

Devoted readers know there’s a special pleasure in reading a book from start to finish without interruption. By turns spooky and comic, tragic and inspiring, these classic and contemporary books are short enough to be read in an afternoon, yet powerful enough to stay in one’s mind forever. (Bookshelf Curated by E. Crane!)

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E. CRANE is a writer for Read It Forward, who loves books as much as you do.