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📖 Short books to avoid the reader's block 📚 bookshop.org
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items Short readings/novels to start and finish your reading in one session, also for beginners! Since I was very young, any book I found I read it, unfortunately this thing was a little lost going on with age but I'm trying to catch up. This list is also ...
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heartwarming ❤️🩹
Questioning sexuality
Scientific experiments
fiction
nonfiction
crime fiction
heartwarming ❤️🩹
"Heartwarming" is an adjective describing something, such as an event, story, or action, that causes feelings of pleasure, happiness, and emotional warmth
in this fantasy world a team monk ends up meeting a robot who he thought were completely extinct and together they tried figure the meaning of life
A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book
Sequel of a psalm for the wild-built. They're both incredibly heartwarming and amazing
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book
A classic that will never expire, i read it in all forms. This have my heart
The Little Prince Deluxe Edition
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Questioning sexuality
refers to the process of discovering and exploring one's sexual orientation and/or gender identity
Giovanni's room tells the feelings of a homosexual person who does not accept his sexuality.
Giovanni's Room
Scientific experiments
is a carefully controlled and organized process for testing a hypothesis to generate new knowledge, often involving the manipulation of variables to observe their effects
tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
What happens if the pituitary and testicles of a man or rather of a delinquent are transplanted into a docile and faithful dog? This is the question posed by the protagonist of the book; a scientist, a professor, who decides to put this experiment in...
Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog
fiction
refers to any creative work, especially a narrative work, that portrays imaginary individuals, events, or places that are not based on real facts or history
a girl's novel, i've been reading it lately i’ll let you know
The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings
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mental trip about this big and important mustache that this man decides to cut one day for fun. This book is a degeneration until the final blow, there is a lot of talk about identity in fact the protagonist will be the only thing that will not have ...
Class Trip & The Mustache
it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness
White Nights (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
nonfiction
Kind of works (books, movies, television) that present content based on reality
the manifesto of women's emancipation for sure
A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
crime fiction
is a broad literary genre focused on criminal acts, the investigation of crimes (often a murder), and the eventual outcome, which typically involves the criminal's apprehension
the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach
The Stranger
horror fiction
is a genre of writing that uses fright, dread, and repulsion to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader
A man invites an escort to his motel and start telling her very unsettling stories about his life that progressively get worse until he asks her to do some not really pleasant things (splatterpunk horror novella)
Woom
Macabre but not too much, it doesn't scare but it gives a sense of anguish (a ghost story)
Elizabeth Gaskell's the Old Nurse's Story
A young solicitor is summoned to attend the funeral of this woman who lives in this very dilapidated house and he start to seeing this woman in black figure in this supposedly empty house and as you can expect things don't very well from there
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
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In this gothic fantasy a group of black resistance fighters start to fight the kkk who are now creature huge terrifying monsters instead of just monsters in the form of white people
Ring Shout
two sisters live in their little mansion on the outskirts of town after the death of most of their family and the townspeople think that one of the sisters did it and they're just outcasts and things start to go more wrong
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
absurdist fiction
explores the meaninglessness of the universe and humanity's struggle to find purpose within it
the grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.
The Metamorphosis
psychological fiction
is a literary genre focused on a character's internal experiences, such as their thoughts, emotions, and motivations, to drive the plot and explain their behavior
a woman believes that her bartender is Sigmund Freud and she wants ti prove this and it’s just gets more and more messy
Hysteria
the baker's wife becomes fixated with a strange new couple in town meanwhile the whole town is being mass poisoned by bread
Cursed Bread: A Novel
suspense novel
creates a feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty in the reader about what will happen next, making them eager to continue reading
Not the usual King but in a softer version. The character of the book from day to day loses specific weight but only seems to lighten without actually losing weight and you can feel it not only physically but also psychologically, to be recovered if ...
Elevation
Psychological novel
is a work of fiction that focuses on the inner lives of its characters, prioritizing their complex thoughts, feelings, memories, and motivations over external events or plot
A married man involved in an extramarital relationship is accused of murder and the whole novel is built through a long flashback in which they go to alter interrogations and memories until the real mystery is revealed. simenon manages to intertwine ...
The Blue Room
romance novel
is a genre of fiction focused on the development of a romantic relationship between two people, requiring both a central love story and an emotionally satisfying, optimistic ending where the lovers overcome obstacles and find emotional justice
An extremely pretentious and horrible young man being extremely pretentious and horrible for about 150 pages
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
A married couple is facing the most important deepest crisis of all when the husband leaves with another woman. The whole story is narrated through multiple points of view: that of the wife, husband and children, giving a great analysis of the family...
Ties
romantic comedy
that deals with love in a light, humorous way
THE SHORT STORY ITSELF IS SUPPOSED TO PORTRAY THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AFTER SECURITY AND FREEDOM IN THEIR LIVES NEEDING TO MAKE MONEY. BUT WANTING THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE WHAT MAKES THEM HAPPY. FOR OUR NARRATOR IT'S WRITING AND MS HOLIDAY. ...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
It's a romantic comedy with classic Shakespearean intertactions; love, betrayals, marriages, masked balls. It's a light and pleasant book, I recommend this one from Shakespeare because when you do a single reading session you don't feel like somethin...
Much Ado About Nothing
magical realism
is a literary, artistic, and film genre that blends ordinary, realistic settings with fantastical or mythical elements, treating them as normal rather than alarming
a novel about a Tokyo cafe that allows customers to travel back in time if they follow certain rules
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
moist book
can be a literal book that is damp or wet
two words: disgusting and uncomfortable
Paradise Rot: A Novel