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 Turn of the Screw
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Time's Arrow
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
The Loser
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
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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

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