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
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- 320 pages
04
Lord of the Flies
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 304 pages
05
Winner Take Nothing
- Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway
- 170 pages
06
Wuthering Heights
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 256 pages
07
Circles in the Forest
- Circles in the Forest by Dalene Matthee
- 302 pages
08
Many Lives, Many Masters
09
A Doll's House
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- 88 pages
10
2BR02B
- 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- 46 pages
11
The Chosen
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- 284 pages
12
Flashman
- Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
- 256 pages
13
The Royal Game
14
Pygmalion
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- 96 pages
15
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
16
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
17
The Importance of Being Earnest
18
Slaughterhouse Five
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 288 pages
19
Of Mice and Men
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- 108 pages
20
The Train Was on Time
- The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll
- 144 pages
21
Animal Farm
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 252 pages
22
Journey's End
- Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff
- 95 pages
23
Men Without Women
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- 160 pages
24
Silas Marner
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- 160 pages
25
Without Feathers
- Without Feathers by Woody Allen
- 224 pages
26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
27
The Wasp Factory
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- 192 pages
28
The Stranger
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- 123 pages
29
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
30
The Metamorphosis
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- 76 pages
31
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
32
The Old Man and the Sea
33
Siddhartha
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- 176 pages
34
White Nights and Other Stories
35
The Red Pony
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- 128 pages
36
Breakfast of Champions
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- 303 pages
37
The War of the Worlds
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- 138 pages
38
The Outsider
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- 127 pages
39
Night
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- 120 pages
40
Winesburg, Ohio
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- 288 pages
41
Bartleby, the Scrivener
42
Man's Search For Meaning
43
The Remains of the Day
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 245 pages
44
Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- 176 pages
45
1984
- 1984 by George Orwell
- 304 pages
46
The Sense of an Ending
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- 163 pages
47
A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- 166 pages
48
Amsterdam
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- 208 pages
49
Notes From Underground
50
Stories of Chekhov
- Stories of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- 192 pages
51
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
52
The World As I See It
- The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
- 190 pages
53
The Hobbit
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 320 pages
54
The Day of the Triffids
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- 256 pages
55
An Ideal Husband
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- 96 pages
56
The Year of the Hare
- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
- 208 pages
57
Hunger
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- 272 pages
58
Death and the Penguin
- Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- 240 pages
59
On the Road
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- 304 pages
60
Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
61
A Short Stay in Hell
- A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
- 108 pages
62
The Sun Also Rises
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- 251 pages
63
The Pigeon
- The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
- 96 pages
64
A Midsummer Night's Dream
65
Father Sergius
- Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy
- 72 pages
66
Amerika
- Amerika by Franz Kafka
- 240 pages
67
The Trial
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- 160 pages
68
The Pearl
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- 96 pages
69
Cat's Cradle
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- 304 pages
70
Foundation
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- 272 pages
71
The Red Badge of Courage
72
To Kill a Mockingbird
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 336 pages
73
A Study in Scarlet
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 108 pages
74
The Great Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 180 pages
75
The Little Prince
76
The Catcher in the Rye
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- 288 pages