Short Novel/Novella Recommendations
Several years ago, after hearing that Charlie Kaufman was adapting Iain Reid's short novel I'm Thinking of Ending Things into a movie, I checked the book out from the campus library at the university where I taught. I started reading it during my 30-minute walk home... kept reading it when I got home... skipped my workout to keep reading... and, after taking a break for dinner and putting the kids to bed, finished reading it that evening. It was a glorious experience, a kind that I so rarely enjoy as a middle-aged person with grown-up responsibilities. I feel like the novella (which I'll roughly define as a work that would be difficult to finish in one sitting but could reasonably be read in a day) is an underrated form. Stephen King has a bunch of great ones, and they're among my favorite works of his (e.g. all four entries in The Bachman Books and Different Seasons, etc.). I'm looking for recommendations for other short-ish works like this. Books you can get through fairly quickly and that punch above their weight class. Thanks!