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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Any readers out there? Can you please help me?

I am looking for some *fiction* books to read next and preferably ones that aren’t more than 250 pages.

Romance novels preferred because I’m a pathetic romantic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Literature lover here lol I prefer the classics / modern classics so here’s a list:

-Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

-Virginia Woolf Orlando

-John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids (sci-fi)

-D. H Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

-Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

-Oscar Wilder The Picture of Dorian Grey

-William S. Burroughs Junky (quintessential best generation reading imo)

-Antonio Tabucchi Requiem: An Hallucination (very short)

-Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse (very short!)

If you need anymore suggestions let me know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Literature lover here lol I prefer the classics / modern classics so here’s a list:

-Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

-Virginia Woolf Orlando

-John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids (sci-fi)

-D. H Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

-Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

-Oscar Wilder The Picture of Dorian Grey

-William S. Burroughs Junky (quintessential best generation reading imo)

-Antonio Tabucchi Requiem: An Hallucination (very short)

-Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse (very short!)

If you need anymore suggestions let me know "

Day of the Triffids is an epic book. Been reading it regularly since I was 15.

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By *JstarsoloWoman
over a year ago

Wombwell, Barnsley

Any Mills and Boon

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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So, going with the romance theme in the OP (because Mrs Dalloway is my idea of the opposite), it's a bit longer than your ideal but The Kiss Quotient is the atypical love story you never knew you needed and will lift your soul.

And The Night Circus is a fantastical romance - such vivid imagery, beauty in the words.

Both are over 300, the latter close to 400 but they are wonderful for the soul.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Literature lover here lol I prefer the classics / modern classics so here’s a list:

-Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

-Virginia Woolf Orlando

-John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids (sci-fi)

-D. H Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

-Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

-Oscar Wilder The Picture of Dorian Grey

-William S. Burroughs Junky (quintessential best generation reading imo)

-Antonio Tabucchi Requiem: An Hallucination (very short)

-Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse (very short!)

If you need anymore suggestions let me know

Day of the Triffids is an epic book. Been reading it regularly since I was 15. "

One of my most favourite books of all time. Love Wyndham and I’m surprised that I do because it’s not my typical genre! There’s just something about his writing that is just so wonderful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Literature lover here lol I prefer the classics / modern classics so here’s a list:

-Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

-Virginia Woolf Orlando

-John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids (sci-fi)

-D. H Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

-Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

-Oscar Wilder The Picture of Dorian Grey

-William S. Burroughs Junky (quintessential best generation reading imo)

-Antonio Tabucchi Requiem: An Hallucination (very short)

-Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse (very short!)

If you need anymore suggestions let me know

Day of the Triffids is an epic book. Been reading it regularly since I was 15.

One of my most favourite books of all time. Love Wyndham and I’m surprised that I do because it’s not my typical genre! There’s just something about his writing that is just so wonderful "

Same here. I am not a sci-fi fan but it's such a wonderful story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by Talia Hibbert. Really easy to read.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love anything by Val woods, Sort of Danielle Steele type but really good.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

The best romance genre books I’ve read over the last few years are

Me before you - jojo Moyes

People we meet on vacation - Emily Henry

The love of her life - Harriet Evans

The light we lost - Jill Santopolo

Sweet sorrow - David Nicholls

They are books of varying lengths though

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)


"Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

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That’s a great list! Lots of favourites of mine there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

"

Just bought My Cousin Rachel by Du Maurier in a charity shop will be my first ever Du Maurier read…can’t wait!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I’ve read lots of the classics and love them.

Recently I read Open water and just fell in love with it instantly honestly.

I’ve heard mrs Dalloway is good. Couldn’t get into the audiobook but might be better with the physical copy. Idk I’ll check these out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’ve read lots of the classics and love them.

Recently I read Open water and just fell in love with it instantly honestly.

I’ve heard mrs Dalloway is good. Couldn’t get into the audiobook but might be better with the physical copy. Idk I’ll check these out "

Mrs Dalloway is great but imo Virginia Woolf is quite hard to get into anyway. I love love love her (and it’s possibly because we adopt some of the same values) but her writing style is quite unique and at some times can be quite difficult. Jacob’s Room is quite a ‘simple’ Woolf read if you’re looking to getting into her. If you like feminist essays, A Room of One’s Own is of course one of the most classics (that and A Vindication of Women’s Rights by Mary Wollstonecraft)

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By *aliceWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham


"I’ve read lots of the classics and love them.

Recently I read Open water and just fell in love with it instantly honestly.

I’ve heard mrs Dalloway is good. Couldn’t get into the audiobook but might be better with the physical copy. Idk I’ll check these out "

There's a cool revision of pride and prejudice called ayesha at last by uzma jalaluddin.

I think you'd also appreciate American spy by Lauren Wilkinson which has a romantic core but is also a neat black centred reworking of the cold War spy trope.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

I’m currently reading and loving Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead. Recommend

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang. May be a bit longer than your limit, but really easy to read and a very interesting romance set in the world of Victorian body snatchers.

A Woman Like Her by Mark Levy. Charming little romance, brief but lovely.

Any of the regency romances from Georgette Heyer or MC Beaton. All pretty much the same story, only the names of the characters change, but all entertaining fluff and usually very slim novels!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I’ve read lots of the classics and love them.

Recently I read Open water and just fell in love with it instantly honestly.

I’ve heard mrs Dalloway is good. Couldn’t get into the audiobook but might be better with the physical copy. Idk I’ll check these out

There's a cool revision of pride and prejudice called ayesha at last by uzma jalaluddin.

I think you'd also appreciate American spy by Lauren Wilkinson which has a romantic core but is also a neat black centred reworking of the cold War spy trope."

Other than romance novels I’m always down for a book that focuses on Black experiences.

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