palate cleansers

quick reads under 150 pages that are a little unconventional and not too dense, but will still fire up your brain!! to ward off a reading slump and refresh your palate.

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created by pachinko

last updated August, 2026

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Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Carmilla

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

A Short Stay in Hell

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

The Hole

The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez

The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

The Yellow Wall-Paper

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Lobster

Lobster

Guillaume Lecasble

The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)

The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)

Nikolai Gogol

Harlequin Butterfly

Harlequin Butterfly

Toh EnJoe

The Employees

The Employees

Olga Ravn

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Raven

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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CatReads

What a lovely list! Also you made this list just in time, because I’m starting to feel that a reading slump is around the corner😅🥲

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pachinkoOP

thank you!! no same this list was fully compiled out of necessity 🤡

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