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I used to be an avid reader, but over the years I find I don't read as much as I used to (or better yet, should) read. Relegating most of my reading time to books I have to read for college and maybe a few passerby's here and there. I've been trying to get back into reading recently. Partial thanks to "Behind the Screened Door's" occasional talk on books. As well as my general want to get my brain going in this field again. I've tried recently, but found that I need to kind of stray away from longer books for the time being, so I can get back in the grove so to speak. Does anyone have any recommendations on shorter books that I should read? By short I mean anywhere below 200 pages. Pretty much any genre is good with me. As long as the story is interesting, I really don't care too much of what the content of the story contains. Thanks in advance.

"Drive" by James Sallis is short and great.

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Any of Douglas Adam's novels, particularly The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Not sure if they are under 200 pages but the Jurassic Park novels (Jurassic Park and The Lost World) are great reads. Definitely that summer novel vide where you can hard stop at chapters or consume it all in one day. The first Dark Tower book by Stephen King, called The Gunslinger, is a nice read and getting curious where the story goes might lead you to the rest of the series and if it doesn't it's still pretty awesome by itself.

Any Harlan Ellison short-story (especially A Boy and His Dog, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Tick-Tock Man, and The Paladin of the Lost Hour) and Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke does such a marvellous job of atmosphere-building and foreshadowing. I'm sure that there are a couple Stephen King short-stories I could recommend, but I get the feeling that everybody is a little worn-out on King's work by now.

"Old Man and the Sea" by Earnest Hemingway. [128 pages]

"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad [116 pages]

"Candide" by Voltaire [152 pages]

"Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [112 pages]

"The Stranger" by Albert Camus [155 pages]

"The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler [139 pages]

These are some of my favorite books ever, and they're short.