Books You Can Read in a Day
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.
1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3 The Plague
4 Lord of the Flies
5 Winner Take Nothing
6 Wuthering Heights
7 Circles in the Forest
8 Many Lives, Many Masters
9 A Doll's House
10 2BR02B
11 The Chosen
12 Flashman
13 The Royal Game
14 Pygmalion
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 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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 The Little Prince
76 The Catcher in the Rye
