The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages. About a month ago, we published a list of 50 of the best contemporary novels over 500 pages, for those of you who suddenly have a lot of extra time on your hands.
But for those of us who suddenly have a lot less extra time on our hands, or who just can’t really pay attention to anything anymore unless it’s a) short or b) what were we talking about? For us, I present this list of 50 of the best contemporary novels under 200 pages. For our purposes here, “contemporary” means published (in English) after 1970. NB that I’m not making a distinction between novellas and novels—I’m not sure there really is one—but I’m not including short story collections, or books that include a novella and stories. Finally, as ever, “best” is subjective, and this list is limited by time and space and the literary tastes of this editor. 101 books about cities. Perhaps more than at any other time in American history, where we live determines much about what we know.
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (精霊の守り人, Seirei no Moribito?)
Is the first in the twelve volume Moribito (守り人?) Series of Japanese fantasy novels by Nahoko Uehashi. It has since been adapted into numerous media, including radio, manga, and anime adaptations. Scholastic released the first novel in English in June 2008. Media Blasters has confirmed that they acquired the rights to the anime.[1] The series premiered on Adult Swim in the U.S. at 1:30 a.m. on August 24, 2008 EST, but was dropped from the schedule without warning or explanation on January 15, 2009 after two runs of the first ten episodes.
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Ever come across a book—on a nightstand in an Airbnb, in a box of your mom’s college junk, on a shelf at a friend’s Bachelor viewing party—that’s so energizingly rip-roaring, so envelopingly world-building, that you can’t really believe you’ve never heard of it before? A book that you find was admired in its time but is now sorta shoved to the side and forgotten, except by the most trusted reader-friends in your life? Well, these are those books. And your reader-friends, in this case? They’re 21 of our favorite writers from the past several years. Socrates in Love. Socrates in Love (恋するソクラテス, Koi Suru Sokuratesu?) Is a 2001 Japanese 206-page melodrama novel, written by Kyoichi Katayama and published by Shogakukan, which revolves around narrator Sakutaro Matsumoto's recollections of a school classmate whom he once loved.
It's also known as Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ, Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu), which author Katayama used after his editors advised that his original novel title Socrates in Love wouldn't work.[1] Allen M. Steele On Arkwright, Science Fiction's History And Space Travel. Esto son los 40 libros más vendidos de todos los tiempos.
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Throwback Thursday: Julian May’s The Pliocene Exile Is Greater Than A Game of Thrones — The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. Why Julian May isn’t a figure of renown in in sci-fi and fantasy circles is a mystery to me, as is why no one is making multi-million dollar TV shows based on her fantastic Pliocene Exile novels (The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, and The Adversary).
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