Sometimes when you're looking for a good book [1] 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.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams [2]
- 224 pages
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [3]
- 192 pages
The Plague
- The Plague by Albert Camus [4]
- 320 pages
Lord of the Flies
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding [5]
- 304 pages
Winner Take Nothing
- Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway [6]
- 170 pages
Wuthering Heights
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë [7]
- 256 pages
Circles in the Forest
- Circles in the Forest by Dalene Matthee [8]
- 302 pages
Many Lives, Many Masters
- Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss [9]
- 219 pages
A Doll's House
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen [10]
- 88 pages
2BR02B
- 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [11]
- 46 pages
The Chosen
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok [12]
- 284 pages
Flashman
- Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser [13]
- 256 pages
The Royal Game
- The Royal Game & Other Stories by Stefan Zweig [14]
- 211 pages
Pygmalion
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw [15]
- 96 pages
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach [16]
- 112 pages
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [17]
- 128 pages
The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [18]
- 64 pages
Slaughterhouse Five
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut [19]
- 288 pages
Of Mice and Men
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck [20]
- 108 pages
The Train Was on Time
- The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll [21]
- 144 pages
Animal Farm
- Animal Farm by George Orwell [22]
- 252 pages
Journey's End
- Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff [23]
- 95 pages
Men Without Women
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway [24]
- 160 pages
Silas Marner
- Silas Marner by George Eliot [25]
- 160 pages
Without Feathers
- Without Feathers by Woody Allen [26]
- 224 pages
The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [27]
- 176 pages
The Wasp Factory
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks [28]
- 192 pages
The Stranger
- The Stranger by Albert Camus [29]
- 123 pages
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig [30]
- 112 pages
The Metamorphosis
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka [31]
- 76 pages
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [32]
- 224 pages
The Old Man and the Sea
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway [33]
- 128 pages
Siddhartha
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse [34]
- 176 pages
White Nights and Other Stories
- White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [35]
- 256 pages
The Red Pony
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck [36]
- 128 pages
Breakfast of Champions
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut [37]
- 303 pages
The War of the Worlds
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [38]
- 138 pages
The Outsider
- The Outsider by Albert Camus [39]
- 127 pages
Night
- Night by Elie Wiesel [40]
- 120 pages
Winesburg, Ohio
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson [41]
- 288 pages
Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville [42]
- 32 pages
Man's Search For Meaning
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl [43]
- 168 pages
The Remains of the Day
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro [44]
- 245 pages
Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote [45]
- 176 pages
1984
- 1984 by George Orwell [46]
- 304 pages
The Sense of an Ending
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes [47]
- 163 pages
A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [48]
- 166 pages
Amsterdam
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan [49]
- 208 pages
Notes From Underground
- Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [50]
- 96 pages
Stories of Chekhov
- Stories of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov [51]
- 192 pages
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson [52]
- 177 pages
The World As I See It
- The World As I See It by Albert Einstein [53]
- 190 pages
The Hobbit
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien [54]
- 320 pages
The Day of the Triffids
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham [55]
- 256 pages
An Ideal Husband
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde [56]
- 96 pages
The Year of the Hare
- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna [57]
- 208 pages
Hunger
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun [58]
- 272 pages
Death and the Penguin
- Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov [59]
- 240 pages
On the Road
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac [60]
- 304 pages
Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
- Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [61]
- 352 pages
A Short Stay in Hell
- A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck [62]
- 108 pages
The Sun Also Rises
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway [63]
- 251 pages
The Pigeon
- The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind [64]
- 96 pages
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare [65]
- 256 pages
Father Sergius
- Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy [66]
- 72 pages
Amerika
- Amerika by Franz Kafka [67]
- 240 pages
The Trial
- The Trial by Franz Kafka [68]
- 160 pages
The Pearl
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck [69]
- 96 pages
Cat's Cradle
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [70]
- 304 pages
Foundation
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov [71]
- 272 pages
The Red Badge of Courage
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane [72]
- 240 pages
To Kill a Mockingbird
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [73]
- 336 pages
A Study in Scarlet
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle [74]
- 108 pages
The Great Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [75]
- 180 pages
The Little Prince
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [76]
- 112 pages
The Catcher in the Rye
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger [77]
- 288 pages
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[1] https://www.popsugar.com/love/Tips-Reading-More-Books-34230742
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[3] http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Sawyer-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486400778/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679720219/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0679720219&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[5] http://www.amazon.com/Flies-Centenary-Edition-William-Golding/dp/0399537422/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[6] http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-Nothing-Ernest-Hemingway/dp/0891906649/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[7] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486292568/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0486292568&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[8] http://www.amazon.com/Circles-Forest-Dalene-Matthee/dp/014318542X/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[9] http://www.amazon.com/Many-Lives-Masters-Prominent-Psychiatrist/dp/0671657860/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[10] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160459456X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=160459456X&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[11] http://www.amazon.com/2BR02B-Kurt-Vonnegut-Jr/dp/1606645013/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[12] http://www.amazon.com/The-Chosen-Ballantine-Readers-Circle/dp/0449911543/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[13] http://www.amazon.com/Flashman-Novel-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0452259614/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[14] http://www.amazon.com/The-Royal-Game-Other-Stories/dp/0841914060/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[15] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486282228/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0486282228&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[16] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743278909/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0743278909&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[17] http://www.amazon.com/Memories-Melancholy-Whores-Gabriel-Marquez/dp/B000W0K0X0/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[18] http://www.amazon.com/Importance-Being-Earnest-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0486264785/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[19] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385333846/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0385333846&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[20] http://www.amazon.com/Mice-And-Men-John-Steinbeck/dp/1907590331/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[21] http://www.amazon.com/Train-Time-Essential-Heinrich-Boll/dp/1935554328/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[22] http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell/dp/1412811902/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[23] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141183268/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0141183268&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[24] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684825864/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0684825864&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[25] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486292460/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0486292460&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[26] http://www.amazon.com/Without-Feathers-Woody-Allen/dp/0345336976/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[27] http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486278077/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[28] http://www.amazon.com/The-WASP-FACTORY-A-NOVEL/dp/0684853159/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[29] http://www.amazon.com/The-Stranger-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720200/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[30] http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Four-Hours-Woman-Stefan-Zweig/dp/1901285480/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[31] http://www.amazon.com/The-Metamorphosis-Franz-Kafka/dp/1936594005/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[32] http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Mark-Twain/dp/0486280616/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[33] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684801221/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0684801221&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[34] http://www.amazon.com/Siddhartha-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe-Edition/dp/0142437182/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[35] http://www.amazon.com/White-Nights-Stories-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486469484/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[36] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140187391/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140187391&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[37] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385334206/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0385334206&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[38] http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Worlds-H-Wells/dp/1936594056/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[39] http://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Everymans-Library-Classics-Albert/dp/1857151399/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[40] http://www.amazon.com/Night-Elie-Wiesel/dp/0374500010/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[41] http://www.amazon.com/Winesburg-Signet-Classics-Sherwood-Anderson/dp/0451529952/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[42] http://www.amazon.com/Bartleby-Scrivener-Herman-Melville/dp/1466268778/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[43] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807014273/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0807014273&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[44] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679731725/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0679731725&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[45] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0241951453/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0241951453&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[46] http://www.amazon.com/1984-60th-Anniversary-Edition-George-Orwell/dp/0452262933/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[47] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307947726/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307947726&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[48] http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-original-manuscript-illustrations/dp/1781390681/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[49] http://www.amazon.com/Amsterdam-A-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385494246/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[50] http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Underground-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/048627053X/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[51] http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Chekhov-Anton/dp/1461078431/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[52] http://www.amazon.com/The-Strange-Case-Jekyll-Hyde/dp/0141439734/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[53] http://www.amazon.com/The-World-As-See-It/dp/1453204989/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[54] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/054792822X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=054792822X&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[55] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812967127/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0812967127&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[56] http://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Husband-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/048641423X/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[57] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WB19E4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004WB19E4&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[58] http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-A-Novel-Knut-Hamsun/dp/0374531102/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[59] http://www.amazon.com/Death-Penguin-Melville-International-Crime/dp/1935554557/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[60] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014312028X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=014312028X&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[61] http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/0060932686/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[62] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098374842X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=098374842X&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[63] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743297334/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0743297334&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[64] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140105832/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140105832&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[65] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743482816/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0743482816&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[66] http://www.amazon.com/Father-Sergius-A-Story-Tolstoy/dp/1604501634/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[67] http://www.amazon.com/Amerika-Disappeared-Restored-Text-Translation/dp/0811215695/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[68] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612931030/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1612931030&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[69] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142000698/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0142000698&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[70] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038533348X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=038533348X&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[71] http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Novels-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553382578/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[72] http://www.amazon.com/The-Badge-Courage-Puffin-Classics/dp/0141327529/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[73] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060935464/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060935464&linkCode=as2&tag=popsho-20
[74] http://www.amazon.com/Study-Scarlet-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/1420925539/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[75] http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Gatsby-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0743273567/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[76] http://www.amazon.com/Little-Prince-Anniversary-Downloadable-Audio/dp/054797048X/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
[77] http://www.amazon.com/The-Catcher-Rye-J-Salinger/dp/0316769177/ref=as_li_wdgt_ex?linkCode=wsw&tag=edit0b-20
