25 Short Classic Books You Can Read in One Day

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Күн бұрын

Want to start reading the classics but not sure where to start? Intimidated by longer books or just don't have the time? Need to prepare for the AP literature exam on the fly? Here are 25 short classics you can read in one day! Mentioned in this video (not in order):
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Peter Pan by James Barrie
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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@dickturpin435 Жыл бұрын

'I have found happiness nowhere in the world, except in a little corner, with a little book.' Attributed to Thomas Á Kempis. Writer from the Middle Ages. Thank you to all leaders to happiness in little corners everywhere.

@meljstephan Жыл бұрын

I sobbed in the middle of my study hall reading Of Mice and Men in month grade. I mean serious ugly crying. Steinbeck is one of the greatest of the greats.

@dickturpin435 Жыл бұрын

I read of a Steinbeck fan who visited Steinbeck country. When she came back home she confided to a friend, 'It was terrible! All he ever did was look out of his window and write it all down!'

@meljstephan Жыл бұрын

The Portrait of Dorian Gray is quite a quick read and a personal favorite of mine

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

I love Dorian Gray! 🖤

@jamesmccullough1162 2 жыл бұрын

I read The Old Man and The Sea on a plane, and was surprised how much I enjoyed such a short story. Great list!

@whilehavingcoffee Жыл бұрын

Amazing book, so beautifully written ❤️❤️

@dinacox1971 Жыл бұрын

itinerant. This was a really great episode. I am 63 and have read lightly AND deeply all my life, so with only one exception I had read all of this terrific list, but what a great reminder!!!

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

😊😊😊

@Flomo112 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. I needed a few short books to pick up. Great recommendations

@joseribamarferreirajunior1284 2 жыл бұрын

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a classic short sci-fi.

@clarasiegfursvw296 Жыл бұрын

Just finished, great thought provoking book, great ending

@gugu532 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for recs..added to my tbr

@shuween706 Жыл бұрын

great list!

@rcprice011 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! wow!!

@Poohtle Ай бұрын

Farenheit 451 took me about a week to read but I loved it.

@logankeseg4985 Ай бұрын

So many great books to add to my goodreads. Thanks so much!

@jjothim 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great list!:)

@AdrianasWonderland 11 ай бұрын

great video, i love reading classics

@evanames5940 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, read many but added many to my to be read list.

@mj2495 4 ай бұрын

Steinbeck's The Pearl was another novella. And one of my favorites.I also liked Cannery Row by the same author. It seemed short to me, but may be a bit longer than I remember. Thank you, it's a great list!

@Fernie4243 19 күн бұрын

I was going to add this one.

@belhypotheque6417 10 ай бұрын

Oh thank you. As someone in their fifties who is trying to read a book a week and more classics, this was very helpful! I loved a few you had on this list like ‘The little prince’ which has stayed with me for years. Another you could add is ‘The outsider’ by Albert Camus translated to English from French. A few good existential questions in that. I also loved The Great Gatsby. It’s surprising some of the ones you mentioned I read as a teenager and they seemed long at the time ( such as Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad) but are on this short list! Another one I’ve just read by an Irish author that is short and sure to become a classic in the future is ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan. Such beautiful pared back writing.

@Nerak7219 Жыл бұрын

Excellent list! I would add The Metamorphosis by Kafka.

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

Nice suggestion! 🪲

@andyalam5074 Жыл бұрын

Notes from Underground took me 17 months to read

@chelseyummali 5 күн бұрын

Dostoevsky White Nights is a super quick and lovely read, as well as Kahlil Gibrans The Broken Wings.

@betinaceciliafeld9854 Жыл бұрын

Great list! Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is another short, amazing and powerful classic.

@rogersmith5870 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful book

@pnutbutrncrackers Жыл бұрын

Couple possible inclusions: Frankenstein, Animal Farm

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

Love these suggestions!

@lightscamerasashley. 2 жыл бұрын

great video 💖

@deblawrence8341 Жыл бұрын

Great list! Having read most of these, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your summary of each. I have "Peter Pan" waiting in the wings; it just seems like a good winter read. I heard on another Book Tubers channel that PP is really Wendy's story so I'm interested in re-reading it with this in mind. Thanks for making this video!

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. 😁

@davidallhusen 2 жыл бұрын

What, no Vonnegut?

@imcbear6274 Жыл бұрын

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is such a good play! I had to read it when I read Hamlet for a college class and I'm glad we were assigned it.

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

I think so too! It’s dark and weird, but I really enjoy it, more than most post-modern stuff 😁

@sandraelder1101 8 күн бұрын

Some other great shorties: Night by Elie Wiesel, Puddinhead Wilson, Up from Slavery, and Agnes Grey.

@jamgart6880 7 ай бұрын

I read The Little Prince this year for the first time. It only really came into my radar a few years earlier surprisingly. It was strange, the setup, it makes no sense living on his own little planet extra. But it was so heart warming and made me cry and I ‘felt’ it so deeply. One of my favourites of the year 😊

@englishnerd5580 7 ай бұрын

I felt the same way ☺️

@johnsaxongitno4life588 2 жыл бұрын

I really really love this video and also love you and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading love 💖 your Australia friend John xxx still wanting to read your books 📚 for opinions and love the cover of this book 📖

@tfpp1 Ай бұрын

I was surprised not to see Animal Farm, or Call of the Wild (or White Fang, for that matter), Candide by Voltaire on the list. Cannery Row by Steinbeck feels “short” just because its chapters are so short.

@englishnerd5580 Ай бұрын

Great recs for this list, I agree!

@i_readclassics Жыл бұрын

Nice channel ma'am!

@sandraelder1101 8 күн бұрын

Maus is a masterpiece!

@ClearOutSamskaras Жыл бұрын

Which edition of Notes From The Underground is the one in your video?

@mangalapalliv 5 ай бұрын

Fabulous List. Thank You ! One could add "The Kruetzer's Sonata' by Tolstoy and Chingiz Aitmatov's Jamila to this list

@andrewanderson3746 Жыл бұрын

@englishnerd5580 I don't know if you'll see this comment, but I wanted to ask, since you don't care for Tolkien's Green Knight, would you also recommend avoiding his Beowulf translation? If so, which translation would you recommend?

@Ostkupa Жыл бұрын

Passing!

@jubrakitjuhbieit6301 2 жыл бұрын

Could you analyze Romeo and Juliet? All of your analyses were so in-depth, and as I read Romeo and Juliet, I'm lost, wishing I had a video of yours to reference, like I did for TOTC.

@jamesduggan7200 Жыл бұрын

To understand R&J watch the Baz Luhrmann, who more than any other director captures the hopelessness of the lives to which the heroes can reasonably foresee. With that in mind, it makes sense for the two kids to find even one single short transitory moment of happiness, before accepting the inevitable misery of life in a strife-torn, plague-threatened city, as children of profoundly unhappy parents.

@rogersmith5870 2 ай бұрын

How about The Samurai's Garden

@nedmerrill5705 Жыл бұрын

Daisy Miller, by Henry James

@sandraelder1101 8 күн бұрын

Isn’t Daisy Miller a short story?

@nedmerrill5705 7 күн бұрын

@@sandraelder1101 Novella

@cristianmicu Жыл бұрын

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by JRR Tolkien

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

Good suggestion-I like that story. Not a big fan of Tolkien’s translation, though.

@apollonia6656 8 ай бұрын

Personally,however short a novel might be I like to make notes so it might take me !in her than one day to read day 100 pages ! No,I am not a slow reader but I like to ease myself into a story and it's characters are which means absorbing the vocalbury, the grammar,syntax ,punctuation etc. Am I picky ? Yes. Am I critical ? Absolutely.....ah,brings me to "The Great Gatsby "; please do tell why this is a great modern piece of !literature ? Honestly,I am puzzled as to why it is considered by many as nearly perfect ? Sure,subjectivity. However,if I hear a logical argument as to the book's merits then I shall re-read it for the fifth time 🙂 All the Best from the UK. PS: Typos are essentials in UT!

@cristianmicu Жыл бұрын

for a native english speaker you're a champion of pronouncing saint-exupery's name . i could give you a 9 out of 10, well done! usually english speakers butcher any other non english name no matter what language it is, but they excel at butchering french and italian names

@englishnerd5580 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don’t feel confident pronouncing French names, so I appreciate it. (I’m a little better at pronouncing Italian.)

@Flomo112 3 ай бұрын

The little Prince is interesting. There are two ways to read it

@ant7936 Жыл бұрын

Nice list. Add these! Anthem Ayn Rand 100pp The Snows of Kilimanjaro Hemingway

@miriamalonso3959 Жыл бұрын

Agree w Hemingway but sorry Ayn Rand was a terrible writer!

@ant7936 Жыл бұрын

@@miriamalonso3959 You've read all her work?

@AmalijaKomar 9 ай бұрын

If we talk about drama nobody mantion Ibsen and Strndberg, very important writers.

@rolcarislew7761 Жыл бұрын

"Itinerant workers," i.e, traveling workers.

@sohaibahmad7742 Жыл бұрын

how can someone read lord of the flies in one day 😭it literally took me like 3 weeks in freshman year

@blessthegood1404 2 жыл бұрын

Ranch hands.

@smalltown4855 Жыл бұрын

I once read The Count of Monte Cristo whilst cleaning my teeth.

@tfpp1 Ай бұрын

Damn you must have some fu*ked up teeth lol

@sandraelder1101 8 күн бұрын

Your teeth must’ve been very clean or very sore afterward.

@chelseyummali 5 күн бұрын

Are you a shark?

@laraahmed4765 2 жыл бұрын

Hello

@cristianmicu Жыл бұрын

the western culture people can get a glimpse BUT ONLY A GLIMPSE of the russian way of life and style of thinking of the russian culture through Dostoyevsky novels. like peeking into a room through a keyhole. dostoievsky really did a great service to western society in this sense, western society looking so ''SOFT'' in russian eyes ... and also evil lately