Recs if you like In Watermelon Sugar...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!

Books with a distinct literary DNA that reflects the chaotic, revolutionary era they were born into and often show a systemic distrust of authority. Whether the enemy is the military (Catch-22), psychiatric institutions (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), or government surveillance (Vineland)

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do you remember The Wiggles song “Fruit Salad”? or maybe “I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas”? what about any song from Veggietales like “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”?

this list is freshly harvested and full of books with (specifically) fruits and veggies in the title or on the cover 🌶️🥭🍒🍋🫑🥕🍓🍑🥝🫐🍇🥒

some are more appropriate than others 😈

as always, please feel free to suggest any books I missed!

Unconventional and experimental novels that play with syntax, style, narrative and structure Tristram Shandy - the grandfather of experimental Pale Fire - intertwines a poem and commentary Dictionary of the Khazars - in the form of a dictionary Man Eating typewriter - written in Polari Exercises in style - 99 retellings of the same story Hopscotch - designed to be read in multiple ways If on a winter’s night a traveller - a story within a story within a…

dystopian fiction

Reading list

A course syllabus for David Foster Wallace's class "English 170R-Selected Obscure/Eclectic Fictions" Spring '03

Meet the world’s most enduring storytellers with Brief Encounters, a collection of short novels and stories to read in a single sitting, or to savour over days. These are the authors and stories that have shaped literature across the world, made to be enjoyed by everyone.

books with less than 200 pages