Marlon and Jake talk short books they love, syllabus staples to skip (Hemingway die-hards, consider yourselves warned), and their first-ever real-time joint read, Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. What does Marlon consider the closest thing to a perfect novel? Tune in to find out!

Sula by Toni Morrison
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Passing by Nella Larsen
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
1984 by George Orwell
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway

Short Novels and Novellas