Today is Read a Book Day. It’s a great day to start a new novel. If longer tomes are intimidating, here’s a list of great reads with fewer
than 200 pages:
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Childhood's End – Arthur C. Clarke
Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
Books take us to places we can reach in no other way. Open a
book and get away today.
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