Books for when you want short and unforgettable
Curated by @shelfthreads · 9 books
Short novels you can finish in a weekend and will still be thinking about years later.
- 1
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali
A shy Turkish clerk in 1920s Berlin keeps going back to a gallery to look at a haunting self-portrait, until he meets the woman who painted it and starts a love affair that will shape his whole life.
- 2
Assembly
Natasha Brown
A Black British woman near the top of her City finance career gets ready for a garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, while quietly deciding whether any of it was worth building.
- 3
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
Content warningForty women live in an underground cage under silent guards who never tell them why, and the youngest, who remembers no other life, traces her story.
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