Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2025
- “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
- “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
- “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
- “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
- “The Stranger” by Albert Camus
- “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
- “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
