Giovanni's Room is around 150 pages, it's set in the 50s and it's about a man named David and his struggle to understand his feelings towards the woman he's planning to marry, and his conflicting feelings for a bartender named Giovanni whom he meets in France. It mostly revolves around his struggles with his sexuality and his disgust with himself for how he feels; it's not a happy book by any means but it's really haunting and even though it's short it really packs a punch.
When I was younger, I LOVED Hatchet. I was obsessed with this story of survival and strength and I'm so happy to see it on this list. I haven't actually read The Giver yet. Or A Wrinkle in Time. Meep. I definitely want to though because both sound so interesting! I feel like I'd enjoy them tremendously. And A Monster Calls is also on my list to read.
i really,really loved this video. So many books that sound amazing! Thank you for all the recommendations, now ill be checking out a few of the books you mentioned. Honestly the whole time I'm just waiting for you to mention A Monster Calls because that book is absolutely breathtaking, i own the book without the illustrations and it still left a huge impact on me. I also loved The Picture of Dorian Gray; it also left an impact.
"The Hatchet" was definitely one of the most influential books of my childhood. I didn't know what it was about and I was coincidentally traveling (flying) when I read it. It really made me think about survival. This book was the first survival story I read.....and I loved it!!!!!
I've not seen the art in the illustrated version of A Monster Calls, but I too cried for like the last half of the book when reading just the book version, so it definitely still has impact!
I love short books and what you call contained narratives! I will definitely read everything you mentioned that I haven't read yet (except maybe the Illusions one, but I will pick up Jonathan Livingston Seagull someday)! I love these recs! I still remember the first time I heard you mention Hatchet in another recs video. I read Sharp Objects and I think out of her 3 words that I've read, it was my favorite one. A Wrinkle in Time was my favorite book that I read this year, even though it was a re-read. I loved it so much. I am so not down with everything have a sequel. I think that books should either be clear series from the start or should be standalones. I'm not down with these afterthought sequels that are coming out. Or "companion novels". SPEAK
You should read Maybe A Fox, I forgot who wrote it but it is a short book. By chapter 5 I knew what was about to happen, by page 60 I was crying off and on though out the rest of the book.
I have to recommend The Curfew by Jesse Ball: it's definitely an atmospheric single-sit read. Orwellian-que dystopian story about a father trying to find his way back to his young daughter after a brief errand which has him out past curfew. I don't even think the book is 200 pages but whoa-powerful!
Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember and The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett are some short books I read this year so far and liked a lot! The first is a story about two girls searching for unicorns in the jungle and falling in love and the second one is a book about books :D
I don't usually read a lot of short books but I think my favorite would have to be city of thieves by David Benioff. It's about two boys who have to find eggs during the drive of Leningrad for a officers daughter's wedding to avoid some type of punishment.
I think all 5 books in my all-time favourite series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams) are under 250 pages. I know that some of them are even under 200 pages! Then there's of course Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Oh, and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Anyhow, I have read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It's the best book I've read this year (so far). I really connected with it. I also re-read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach just a few weeks ago. First time I read it was in high school and I liked it then and I still like it now. Definitely recommend reading it :)
It's short and simple because its a children's book but Mick Hart Was Here by Barbara Park (yes the one who wrote the Junie B. Jones books) is one of my favorite books of all time! really worth checking out if you have never read it. Also, I don't know if this counts page number wise, but it is so fast because many chapters/pages are only a sentence or two--Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is amazing! Possibly my favorite book of last year.
you would love Giovanni's Room. Really packs a punch on choosing who you love based on society, and the dangers of it. Well thats what I got out of it lol.
I just read Every Heart a Doorway based on your recommendation a few weeks ago! I'm excited for the first of the companion books because it's supposed to be about Jill and Jack and Jack was my favorite character. I love mad scientist characters, especially when they get to be the hero.
I think I'm in the minority here since i really enjoyed the rest of The Giver series, although i agree that The Giver is the best one. I started reading A Wrinkle in Time when I was much younger, but got bored so never finished it. I think maybe it's time to give it another shot haha. Definitely love this video idea and will be checking out a bunch of the books you mentioned :)
Hey Cece, I thought this would be the best place to ask. I'm trying to remember the name of a short story that i read a very long time ago. all that I can remember of the plot is that there is a boy who befriends a man who gives him a kit that brings butterflies that have been pinned back to life and he goes to a museum and brings the butterflies there back to life. I hope someone can help me out. (it's driving me crazy)
I used to love Hatchet (Gary Paulsen in general) when I was in elementary school! I've read it multiple times and I use to pretend that I was trying I survive like Brian.
I get that the giver (at least for me) is truly a great book. I love it so much it’s my number one favorite. But I would definitely recommend the series. It’s not the same as the giver but the stories do connect and are just really enjoyable. If you choose to read them, their is an order. Start with the giver, then gathering blue, then messenger boy, then finally Son. If you don’t read them in order it won’t make much sense but yeah. Here ya go
Enjoyed your favorites. Hope I’m not imposing but what follows is one of my top 10 short stories of all time: ( not long) If you decide to read and enjoyed I can youtube one more in my top 10 and won’t pester you. All love in isolation, Al Grace Paley “ Wants” (from her 1974 short story collection “ Enormous Changes At The Last Minute” Nominated for the National Book Award For Fiction ). ~ I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine. I said, O.K. I don't argue when there's real disagreement. I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them. The librarian said $32 even and you've owed it for eighteen years. I didn't deny anything. Because I don't understand how time passes. I have had those books. I have often thought of them. The library is only two blocks away. My ex-husband followed me to the Books Returned desk. He interrupted the librarian, who had more to tell. In many ways, he said, as I look back, I attribute the dissolution of our marriage to the fact that you never invited the Bertrams to dinner. That's possible, I said. But really, if you remember: first, my father was sick that Friday, then the children were born, then I had those Tuesday-night meetings, then the war began. Then we didn't seem to know them any more. But you're right. I should have had them to dinner. I gave the librarian a check for $32. Immediately she trusted me, put my past behind her, wiped the record clean, which is just what most other municipal and/or state bureaucracies will not do. I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. A nice thing I do remember is breakfast, my ex-husband said. I was surprised. All we ever had was coffee. Then I remembered there was a hole in the back of the kitchen closet which opened into the apartment next door. There, they always ate sugar-cured smoked bacon. It gave us a very grand feeling about breakfast, but we never got stuffed and sluggish. That was when we were poor, I said. When were we ever rich? he asked. Oh, as time went on, as our responsibilities increased, we didn't go in need. You took adequate financial care, I reminded him. The children went to camp four weeks a year and in decent ponchos with sleeping bags and boots, just like everyone else. They looked very nice. Our place was warm in winter, and we had nice red pillows and things. I wanted a sailboat, he said. But you didn't want anything. Don't be bitter, I said. It's never too late. No, he said with a great deal of bitterness. I may get a sailboat. As a matter of fact I have money down on an eighteen-foot two-rigger. I'm doing well this year and can look forward to better. But as for you, it's too late. You'll always want nothing. He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber's snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, half-way to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment. What I mean is, I sat down on the library steps and he went away. I looked through The House of Mirth, but lost interest. I felt extremely accused. Now, it's true, I'm short of requests and absolute requirements. But I do want something. I want, for instance, to be a different person. I want to be the woman who brings these two books back in two weeks. I want to be the effective citizen who changes the school system and addresses the Board of Estimate on the troubles of this dear urban center. I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up. I wanted to have been married forever to one person, my ex-husband or my present one. Either has enough character for a whole life, which as it turns out is really not such a long time. You couldn't exhaust either man's qualities or get under the rock of his reasons in one short life. Just this morning I looked out the window to watch the street for a while and saw that the little sycamores the city had dreamily planted a couple of years before the kids were born had come that day to the prime of their lives. Well! I decided to bring those two books back to the library. Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I can take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks -Grace Paley ( from her 1974 short story collection “ Enormous Changes At The Last Minute” Nominated for the National Book Award For Fiction ).
the only book in the Giver quartet that I really forced myself to finish was Son. I really liked the other three though. They weren't as good as The Giver but I still enjoyed them. :)
Britt I read The Giver for school when I was 13 and then bought the series. I loved them I still havent read Son and its been 5 years but I want to pick it up. I really liked all of them especially Messenger.
Generally, a sitting for me changes in length, but I tend to mean that I read the book all in one go without breaking to do other stuff. I mean, a snack in the middle wouldn't disqualify me. But it means I didn't like... take a nap or watch a show or anything like that while I was in the middle of reading. I started the book, and didn't stop until I finished it.
you should read Night Owls by Jenn Bennet, it's like 280 pages and it's so good, and features a gay character so there's that, and I really really enjoyed it and i think you would too!
Wanna hear the shortest novel ever ? A man walked in to a room looks around , saw nothing, then walked out again . The End . The Author Curly Short is a totally unknown fucking genius . His masterpiece, Walking in to Rooms in Peru , has never been published. He never wrote a word after his terrible failure .
Do try my book " En route Goa" it is a 60 page book. Thriller Genre with 4.8/5 rating in Amazon India with over 30 positive review. Look forward to your comments. This is also available in US and UK
Giovanni's Room is around 150 pages, it's set in the 50s and it's about a man named David and his struggle to understand his feelings towards the woman he's planning to marry, and his conflicting feelings for a bartender named Giovanni whom he meets in France. It mostly revolves around his struggles with his sexuality and his disgust with himself for how he feels; it's not a happy book by any means but it's really haunting and even though it's short it really packs a punch.
My blind recommendation to every body even if i know nothing about them is "of mice and men" . I think its the perfect book to reccomend.
I added so many of these to my Goodreads TBR while watching this video!!! Thanks for showing some love to the short books! 😁
When I was younger, I LOVED Hatchet. I was obsessed with this story of survival and strength and I'm so happy to see it on this list.
I haven't actually read The Giver yet. Or A Wrinkle in Time. Meep. I definitely want to though because both sound so interesting! I feel like I'd enjoy them tremendously. And A Monster Calls is also on my list to read.
i really,really loved this video. So many books that sound amazing! Thank you for all the recommendations, now ill be checking out a few of the books you mentioned. Honestly the whole time I'm just waiting for you to mention A Monster Calls because that book is absolutely breathtaking, i own the book without the illustrations and it still left a huge impact on me. I also loved The Picture of Dorian Gray; it also left an impact.
"The Hatchet" was definitely one of the most influential books of my childhood. I didn't know what it was about and I was coincidentally traveling (flying) when I read it. It really made me think about survival. This book was the first survival story I read.....and I loved it!!!!!
That library though 😍
You should read All My Friends Are Superheroes, I loved it, and I think it was either 108/111 pages, I read te whole thing on the bus haha 😊
I'm going to read it soon!
Ha, I was after forgetting about that, it is a great book. Good recommendation
You definitely got me excited about some of these books! Thanks! xx
Starting off strong Cece! The Giver is literally the best!! I really need to read A Monster Calls it sounds amazing and everyone loves it!
I've not seen the art in the illustrated version of A Monster Calls, but I too cried for like the last half of the book when reading just the book version, so it definitely still has impact!
I love short books and what you call contained narratives!
I will definitely read everything you mentioned that I haven't read yet (except maybe the Illusions one, but I will pick up Jonathan Livingston Seagull someday)! I love these recs! I still remember the first time I heard you mention Hatchet in another recs video.
I read Sharp Objects and I think out of her 3 words that I've read, it was my favorite one.
A Wrinkle in Time was my favorite book that I read this year, even though it was a re-read. I loved it so much.
I am so not down with everything have a sequel. I think that books should either be clear series from the start or should be standalones. I'm not down with these afterthought sequels that are coming out. Or "companion novels".
SPEAK
I love how you list the book on he description, it made the listing so quick thank you
ahhh tysm! :) i'll definitely be checking out these wonderful books! :)
a monster calls is my favourite book of all time honestly, it means a lot to me.
Thank you for the suggestions! And my favorite short book has to be The Giver by Lois Lowery as well :)
I actually haven't read ANY of these! I do own Sharp Objects though, I'll definitely give it a try!
You should read Maybe A Fox, I forgot who wrote it but it is a short book. By chapter 5 I knew what was about to happen, by page 60 I was crying off and on though out the rest of the book.
I have to recommend The Curfew by Jesse Ball: it's definitely an atmospheric single-sit read. Orwellian-que dystopian story about a father trying to find his way back to his young daughter after a brief errand which has him out past curfew. I don't even think the book is 200 pages but whoa-powerful!
Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember and The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett are some short books I read this year so far and liked a lot! The first is a story about two girls searching for unicorns in the jungle and falling in love and the second one is a book about books :D
so glad you mentioned Two Boys Kissing but where's The Catcher in the Rye????
I don't usually read a lot of short books but I think my favorite would have to be city of thieves by David Benioff. It's about two boys who have to find eggs during the drive of Leningrad for a officers daughter's wedding to avoid some type of punishment.
there's a movie for a monster calls I think
I think all 5 books in my all-time favourite series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams) are under 250 pages. I know that some of them are even under 200 pages! Then there's of course Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Oh, and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Anyhow, I have read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It's the best book I've read this year (so far). I really connected with it. I also re-read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach just a few weeks ago. First time I read it was in high school and I liked it then and I still like it now. Definitely recommend reading it :)
Great recommendations! Just added a bunch of these to my good reads to read list :)
I love ur channel and ur booktube style :) keep up the good work!
It's short and simple because its a children's book but Mick Hart Was Here by Barbara Park (yes the one who wrote the Junie B. Jones books) is one of my favorite books of all time! really worth checking out if you have never read it. Also, I don't know if this counts page number wise, but it is so fast because many chapters/pages are only a sentence or two--Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is amazing! Possibly my favorite book of last year.
I was surprised that you included A Wrinkle in Time. It's a really stunning classic!
you would love Giovanni's Room. Really packs a punch on choosing who you love based on society, and the dangers of it. Well thats what I got out of it lol.
I just read Every Heart a Doorway based on your recommendation a few weeks ago! I'm excited for the first of the companion books because it's supposed to be about Jill and Jack and Jack was my favorite character. I love mad scientist characters, especially when they get to be the hero.
I think I'm in the minority here since i really enjoyed the rest of The Giver series, although i agree that The Giver is the best one.
I started reading A Wrinkle in Time when I was much younger, but got bored so never finished it. I think maybe it's time to give it another shot haha.
Definitely love this video idea and will be checking out a bunch of the books you mentioned :)
Hatchet was rad! I am 37 and when i was 10 this book blew my mind
If you haven't read it I'd recommend green Angel by Alice Hoffman, it's a gorgeous book
I sobbed at the last part of A Monster Calls. From pg. 187 on I was shattered. It was an amazing book.
Au revoir, crazy European chick by Joe Schreiber, The Game by Monica Hughes and Living dead girl by Elizabeth Scott. All very short and good.
I loved Illusions. I finally gave my copy away from college, 1983, and purchased it in a hardback.
i love your hair!
Hey Cece, I thought this would be the best place to ask. I'm trying to remember the name of a short story that i read a very long time ago. all that I can remember of the plot is that there is a boy who befriends a man who gives him a kit that brings butterflies that have been pinned back to life and he goes to a museum and brings the butterflies there back to life. I hope someone can help me out. (it's driving me crazy)
Stargirl was an an amazing book! Th sequal...umm if you want to like The first book don't read the sequal
I love The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's sentences are perfection.
I used to love Hatchet (Gary Paulsen in general) when I was in elementary school! I've read it multiple times and I use to pretend that I was trying I survive like Brian.
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Did your copy of the book “The monster calls” have pictures in it . I’m interested in reading it.
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I need to get these! Thank you for the recomendations!!!
I get that the giver (at least for me) is truly a great book. I love it so much it’s my number one favorite. But I would definitely recommend the series. It’s not the same as the giver but the stories do connect and are just really enjoyable. If you choose to read them, their is an order. Start with the giver, then gathering blue, then messenger boy, then finally Son. If you don’t read them in order it won’t make much sense but yeah. Here ya go
The Wizard in the Tree by Lloyd Alexander!
Enjoyed your favorites.
Hope I’m not imposing but what follows is
one of my top 10 short stories of all time: ( not long)
If you decide to read and enjoyed I can youtube one more in my top 10 and won’t pester you.
All love in isolation,
Al
Grace Paley
“ Wants”
(from her 1974 short story collection “ Enormous Changes At The Last Minute”
Nominated for the National Book Award For Fiction ).
~
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.
Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified.
He said, What? What life? No life of mine.
I said, O.K. I don't argue when there's real disagreement. I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them.
The librarian said $32 even and you've owed it for eighteen years. I didn't deny anything. Because I don't understand how time passes. I have had those books. I have often thought of them. The library is only two blocks away.
My ex-husband followed me to the Books Returned desk. He interrupted the librarian, who had more to tell. In many ways, he said, as I look back, I attribute the dissolution of our marriage to the fact that you never invited the Bertrams to dinner.
That's possible, I said. But really, if you remember: first, my father was sick that Friday, then the children were born, then I had those Tuesday-night meetings, then the war began. Then we didn't seem to know them any more. But you're right. I should have had them to dinner.
I gave the librarian a check for $32. Immediately she trusted me, put my past behind her, wiped the record clean, which is just what most other municipal and/or state bureaucracies will not do.
I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago.
A nice thing I do remember is breakfast, my ex-husband said. I was surprised. All we ever had was coffee. Then I remembered there was a hole in the back of the kitchen closet which opened into the apartment next door. There, they always ate sugar-cured smoked bacon. It gave us a very grand feeling about breakfast, but we never got stuffed and sluggish.
That was when we were poor, I said.
When were we ever rich? he asked.
Oh, as time went on, as our responsibilities increased, we didn't go in need. You took adequate financial care, I reminded him. The children went to camp four weeks a year and in decent ponchos with sleeping bags and boots, just like everyone else. They looked very nice. Our place was warm in winter, and we had nice red pillows and things.
I wanted a sailboat, he said. But you didn't want anything.
Don't be bitter, I said. It's never too late.
No, he said with a great deal of bitterness. I may get a sailboat. As a matter of fact I have money down on an eighteen-foot two-rigger. I'm doing well this year and can look forward to better. But as for you, it's too late. You'll always want nothing.
He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber's snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, half-way to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment. What I mean is, I sat down on the library steps and he went away.
I looked through The House of Mirth, but lost interest. I felt extremely accused. Now, it's true, I'm short of requests and absolute requirements. But I do want something.
I want, for instance, to be a different person. I want to be the woman who brings these two books back in two weeks. I want to be the effective citizen who changes the school system and addresses the Board of Estimate on the troubles of this dear urban center.
I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up.
I wanted to have been married forever to one person, my ex-husband or my present one. Either has enough character for a whole life, which as it turns out is really not such a long time. You couldn't exhaust either man's qualities or get under the rock of his reasons in one short life.
Just this morning I looked out the window to watch the street for a while and saw that the little sycamores the city had dreamily planted a couple of years before the kids were born had come that day to the prime of their lives.
Well! I decided to bring those two books back to the library. Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I can take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks
-Grace Paley
( from her 1974 short story collection “ Enormous Changes At The Last Minute”
Nominated for the National Book Award For Fiction ).
the only book in the Giver quartet that I really forced myself to finish was Son. I really liked the other three though. They weren't as good as The Giver but I still enjoyed them. :)
Britt I read The Giver for school when I was 13 and then bought the series. I loved them I still havent read Son and its been 5 years but I want to pick it up. I really liked all of them especially Messenger.
I loved Messenger!
Gillian Flynn's audio books are AMAZING!!!
Read Notes from the underground
I just bought it I'm afraid I won't like it .it is just weird especially after reading crime and punishment
@@ilqar887 read only the second part of the book
@@AbhishekKumar-uu4uj first part does not matter at all? Or is it harder to read?
So many of my favs
Great Video! You should check out the short story book "Discovery Mode: When Survival Becomes Your Only Way Home" by Joseph Tait Miller!
how long is a sitting???
Generally, a sitting for me changes in length, but I tend to mean that I read the book all in one go without breaking to do other stuff. I mean, a snack in the middle wouldn't disqualify me. But it means I didn't like... take a nap or watch a show or anything like that while I was in the middle of reading. I started the book, and didn't stop until I finished it.
half these books I read in school lol
you should read Night Owls by Jenn Bennet, it's like 280 pages and it's so good, and features a gay character so there's that, and I really really enjoyed it and i think you would too!
I might have to check that one out!
Thank you!
A Monster Calls made me ugly cry so much, but it was such a beautiful book.
Good post!!
Wanna hear the shortest novel ever ? A man walked in to a room looks around , saw nothing, then walked out again . The End . The Author Curly Short is a totally unknown fucking genius . His masterpiece, Walking in to Rooms in Peru , has never been published. He never wrote a word after his terrible failure .
Agree with 90% of this list...except 'A wrinkle in time' oof that was one of the worst books I've ever read. The writing is just terrible.
Do try my book " En route Goa" it is a 60 page book. Thriller Genre with 4.8/5 rating in Amazon India with over 30 positive review. Look forward to your comments. This is also available in US and UK
I like your videos, but watching your hairs is ❤️
dont really get the hype about a monster calls- it is not v good and it is childish. maybe for children but not for young adults.
Did you ever read The "Coran" ??
you talk to much in the intro
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