When your to-do list is long, it’s nice to be able to finish something right away! For those busy times, and for all those taking the 2017 Provincetown Library Reading Challenge, here is a list of Nan’s favorites — books you can finish in a day, most of them under 200 pages.
- We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Adichie
- The Tent – Margaret Atwood
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
- The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
- A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tears We Cannot Stop – Michael Eric Dyson
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor E. Frankl
- The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The Prince – Machiavelli
- The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
- Playing in the Dark – Toni Morrison
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Night – Elie Wiesel