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Short books you can finish in a day.
Reading is a great hobby to pick up to help when you’re trapped in a mindless social media scroll or…
March 3, 2023,
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Reading is a great hobby to pick up to help when you’re trapped in a mindless social media scroll or when you’re feeling a little stuck in your head. But University can be extremely busy and reading can be difficult to fit in, especially a long book.
This article will share an array of books you can read in just a day to suit a variety of interests, from well-loved classics to modern best-sellers!
These categories only scratch the surface of these books, with many having a multitude of themes throughout. Therefore they’re split into classics and non-classics as the classics can sometimes be harder to access, whilst the modern classics can better relate to modern themes. I’ve also added a category for graphic novels if you’re not a big fan of reading, but still love to get cosy with a book. All of them however have amazing reviews and are much loved around the world by people of all ages!
Classics
- Animal Farm.
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
- Lord of the Flies.
- The Great Gatsby.
- A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Of Mice and Men.
- The Haunting of Hill House.
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The Prince.
- 12 Years a Slave. Black Beauty.
- The Awakening.
- The Stranger.
- A Room of One’s Own.
- The Little Prince.
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
- Death of a Salesman.
- The War of the Worlds.
- Peter Pan.
- The Bell Jar.
Modern Classics
- Normal people.
- Before the coffee gets cold.
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
- Call me by your Name.
- We Were Liars.
- The Five People you meet in Heaven.
- We should all be feminists.
- Convenience Store Woman.
- The Vegetarian.
- If Cats Disappeared from the World.
- Life Ceremony.
- The Humans.
- The Midnight Library.
- Overheard at Waitrose.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- Notes on Grief.
- Tokyo Ueno Station.
Graphic Novels.
- Lore Olympus.
- Heartstopper.
- Sheets.
- Some Kind of Happiness.
- Speak.
- The Humans.
- Cryptic Club.
- Maus Now.
- Persepolis I & II.
- The Arrival.
- Fun Home.
- Blankets.
- Ghost World.
- Becoming Unbecoming.
- Flake.
- Black hole.
- Hark!
- A Vagrant.
- The One Hundred Nights of Hero.
- Dinosaur Philosophy.
- It’s Lonely in the Centre of the Earth.