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Short books from around the world
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Millie Books
Most of these are under 200 pages but have some of the best writing, characterisation, and plots i've ever read.
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Palestine
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Ireland
Foster by Claire Keegan
South Korea
Greek Lessons by Han Kan
Japan
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
France
The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
England
Lolly Willowes by Silvia Townsend Warner
Germany / Czech
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Austria
Chess by Stefan Zweig
Canada
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
America
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Turkey
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
Japan
Life for Sal by Yukio Mishima
America
so long see you tomorrow by william maxwell
America
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
Mexico
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda
America
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Afghanistan
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird by Afghan Women
England
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Japan
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Argentina
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
Indonesia
Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri
Russia
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poland
White Nights by Urszula Honek
France
Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
Scotland
Hex by Jenni Fagan
Spain
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu