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10 Best Quick Reads [showing slide 6 of 10]

It’s not just because of the limited time we all have: We love short books for their burst of energy and epiphany. Short books whisk us off to another world and then (usually) deposit us right back where we used to be, a little more exhilarated or enlightened. This list of quick reads includes nonfiction and fiction (even though many of us were assigned John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in middle school, it’s worth visiting again and worth checking out our review of the book from 1936, when we called Steinbeck “a genius and an original”). For more good short fiction and nonfiction, check out byliner.com, Kindle Singles and Melville House’s The Art of the Novella series. Meanwhile, you should be able to get all these books read by the time we publish next week’s list, so get cracking!

by Lloyd Jones

"A little Gauguin, a bit of Lord Jim, the novel's lyricism evokes great beauty and great pain."
Bringing Great Expectations to desperate children ravaged by revolution, an eccentric teacher becomes a martyr to literature and transforms the prospects of a strong-willed girl. Read full book review >
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