76 Important Books Quick Enough to Read This Weekend

Sometimes when you're looking for a good book to read, it's all about a quick fix. Maybe you're in a book club and you need something that everyone will be able to finish by next meeting. Or maybe you're going away for the weekend and you want a novel you can have read by Monday. We're here to help! These classic, quality pieces of literature — with some fun books thrown in the mix — are quick enough to start and finish in two days, with most being around 300 pages or less. Plus, many of the classics you can actually check out on your Kindle for free! Either that or you can pick up a copy at your local library. Click through these book recommendations now to find your next weekend read.

01

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

02

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

03

The Plague

04

Lord of the Flies

05

Winner Take Nothing

06

Wuthering Heights

07

Circles in the Forest

08

Many Lives, Many Masters

09

A Doll's House

10
11

The Chosen

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15

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

16

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

17

The Importance of Being Earnest

18

Slaughterhouse Five

19

Of Mice and Men

20

The Train Was on Time

21

Animal Farm

22

Journey's End

23

Men Without Women

24

Silas Marner

25

Without Feathers

26

The Picture of Dorian Gray

27

The Wasp Factory

28

The Stranger

29

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

30

The Metamorphosis

31

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

32

The Old Man and the Sea

33

Siddhartha

34

White Nights and Other Stories

35

The Red Pony

36

Breakfast of Champions

37

The War of the Worlds

38

The Outsider

39

Night

40

Winesburg, Ohio

41

Bartleby, the Scrivener

42

Man's Search For Meaning

43

The Remains of the Day

44

Breakfast at Tiffany's

45

1984

46

The Sense of an Ending

47

A Christmas Carol

48

Amsterdam

49

Notes From Underground

50

Stories of Chekhov

51
52

The World As I See It

53

The Hobbit

54

The Day of the Triffids

55

An Ideal Husband

56

The Year of the Hare

57

Hunger

58

Death and the Penguin

59

On the Road

60

Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

61

A Short Stay in Hell

62

The Sun Also Rises

63

The Pigeon

64

A Midsummer Night's Dream

65

Father Sergius

66

Amerika

67

The Trial

68

The Pearl

69

Cat's Cradle

70

Foundation

71

The Red Badge of Courage

72

To Kill a Mockingbird

73

A Study in Scarlet

74

The Great Gatsby

75
76

The Catcher in the Rye

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