The Guardian’s 20 brilliant books you can read in a day

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/jul/11/pressed-for-time-20-brilliant-books-you-can-read-in-a-day
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Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
2,221 members
129 reviews
3.9
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The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
2,499 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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3
Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
1,637 members
94 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark
1,215 members
63 reviews
½ 3.7
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Assembly
by Natasha Brown
687 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
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Kick the Latch
by Kathryn Scanlan
160 members
9 reviews
4.1
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,577 members
232 reviews
4
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By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolaño
1,812 members
66 reviews
3.8
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9
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,732 members
178 reviews
4.2
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10
Memorial
by Alice Oswald
387 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
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Dora: An Analysis of A Case of Hysteria
by Sigmund Freud
1,000 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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12
The Cost of Living
by Deborah Levy
640 members
22 reviews
3.9
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13
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
1,996 members
78 reviews
4
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14
Wittgenstein's Nephew
by Thomas Bernhard
1,204 members
31 reviews
4.1
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15
The Spare Room
by Helen Garner
1,122 members
99 reviews
3.9
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16
The Vegetarian
by Kang Han
6,086 members
403 reviews
½ 3.6
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17
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli
3,119 members
102 reviews
3.8
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18
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1,949 members
93 reviews
3.8
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19
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,370 members
238 reviews
4.2
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
1,841 members
85 reviews
3.8
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