All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina
If it’s the second part of Tolstoy’s famous opening that resonates with you on this long, holiday weekend with family, you may want to find a quiet place and bury your nose in a good book. Last weekend HTMLGIANT asked readers for their favorite short novels (120 pages or less), and their favorite long novels (500 pages or more).
Here are my suggestions short:
· The Old Man and The Sea, by Hemingway
· Candide, by Voltaire
· Of Mice and Men, by Steinbeck
· The Stranger, by Camus
…And long:
· Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck
· Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
· 2666, by Bolano
What are yours?
