Read it in one sitting

Cormac McCarthy

A father, a son, a shopping cart, and the ash of the world — carrying the fire south. Pulitzer, 2007.

E.B. White

Some Pig. A spider saves a pig's life with four words — the best children's book about death ever written.

Lois Lowry

A community without pain, color, or choice — and the boy given all the memories they traded away.

S.E. Hinton

Stay gold, Ponyboy — the teenage classic written by an actual teenager.

Ernest Hemingway

127 pages; a Pulitzer and a Nobel citation.

George Orwell

Two hours to read, a lifetime to quote.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

An hour to read, a decade to understand.

Hermann Hesse

A whole spiritual life in 150 pages.

Paul Kalanithi

One evening; bring tissues.

Paulo Coelho

The world's favorite fable, readable in an afternoon.