Sometimes we want a story that we can jump into and not exit until it’s all nicely wrapped up. Enter, the art of the short story or novella.
So, here are nine incredible short stories or small books that prove size doesn’t alway matter:
1.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2.
Foster by Claire Keegan
3.
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
4.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
6.
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
8.
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
9.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Any of your own recommendations to add? Let us know in the comments below!