I bought a ton of monsters for myself around Christmas that I plan on reading this year, but I also wanna read some shorter novels in between to kind of break them up.

I don’t really have any preferences, I try and read a bit of everything, so they can be classics of the past or contemporary works.

Stoner
The Tartar Steppe
Notes From Underground

Père Goriot

For some reason I quitted Stoner after 30 pages or something like that.

I don't usually stop reading books but I did find it so uninteresting.

I did the same after half the book but it kept calling me and I couldn't be more satisfied after I picked it again.
The life itself of the protagonist is quiet but the prose, the emotions and his problems are conveyed in such a beautiful way.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
Ice by Anna Kavan
most books by Kurt Vonnegut
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
A Clockwork Orange
The Nickel Boys
This Is How You Lose Her
Indian Horse
The Big Sleep
The White Boy Shuffle
Earthlings
In The Distance
Brave New World
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ham on Rye
Never Let Me Go
Nothing To See Here
The Sellout
Under The Skin

bolded my favorites

Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Jon Fosse - Wakefulness
Gerard Reve - The Evenings
Lev Tolstoy - The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Joseph Roth - Hotel Savoy
Stefan Zweig - Chess Story
Herman Melville - Bartleby
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Anton Chekhov - Short stories
Tove Ditlevsen - Copenhagen trilogy
Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons

What the hell I'm now disappointed this isn't about a stoner

the bluest eye - toni morrison
slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut
convenience store woman - sayaka murata
no longer human - osamu dazai

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Murakami

the metamorphosis

dam u really knocked it out of the park

u liked The Death Of Ivan Ilyich but thought stoner was too boring?

Yeah, definitely.

Death of Ivan Ilyich one of the best novellas ever written.

Animal Farm

im just saying leo is a tad boring

I've only read The Death Of Ivan Ilych and Anna Karenina from him and didnt find it boring at all

War & Peace might be boring in some parts because of its great length, but it's still on my to read list.

Everyone has a different taste I guess.

Revisited this in late January to see if it still holds up

If on a winter’s night a traveller

Mrs. Dalloway

Notes from Underground

Just read The House of Hunger thats like only 100 pages

dirty snow by georges simenon
most kurt vonnegut books

Oresteia translated by Anne Carson
Memorial by Alice Oswald