Which book is easiest and fastest to read?

Question

I have to read a book within two days so I was wondering if anyone knew which book, from the list I will provide, will be easiest and fastest to read. Thank you all very much and I greatly appreciate it!

God Bless!

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

Russell Baker, Growing Up

William F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale

Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of Africa

Paul Fussell, Doing Battle

Henry Louis Gates, Colored People

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

William Manchester, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

Beryl Markham, West with the Night

John McCain, Faith of My Fathers

N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Barak Obama, Dreams from My Father

Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory

Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa

Tavis Smiley, What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America

Gary Soto, A Summer Life

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings

Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life

In Pharaoh’s Army

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Richard E. Byrd, Alone

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Alfred Lansing, Endurance

William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

Coming into the Country

John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

James Watson, The Double Helix

W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk

James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

Jay Winik, April 1865

Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg

James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers

Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade

Ernie Pyle, Brave Men

Michael Herr, Dispatches

Frank Schaeffer, Keeping Faith

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

I know that's a big list but that's the list I have to choose from, and I need to read the one that will be easiest and fastest to read. Thanks Again!!!

Answer 1

nursery rhymes.....

Answer 2

I hope you're aware that NONE of those are going to be short reads. They're all at least 200 pages. Most of them sound like American classics and other, like the Barack Obama book, are probably biographies and won't be less than the 200 pages. Best bet you have is to see if there are any of these books on cd or tape at your local library.

Sounds to me that you slacked off way to long and is in a bind, bummer. Well good luck to you.

Answer 3

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty is 114 trade paperback pages and is an absolute breeze to read. Go with that, it's fast, easy, and good. You can't go wrong.

Answer 4

My favorites in this list (which is loaded with good books, though I will try to recall 'fast and easy') are:

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolfe (great book, easy and humorous reading)

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (not quite as easy but fairly short as I recall; also good though not as good; opinion only)

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (who always writes short work, though you'll have to be prepared for a man who likes nature when she's really wild and stormy; a different kind of guy)

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois (not as short, not as 'fun,' but very good)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (an always fascinating read, middling length but the book you want if you tend to like 'thrillers')

That's my 'short list' for you.

Good luck in your choices.

[You can always go to Amazon.com to isolate each book suggested with a click and scroll down to the publisher info for the number of pages...]

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Answer 5

None of them are going to be short. I think Michael Herr's 'Dispatches' might be one of the shortest works listed (and it's definitely worth reading).

But the ones I've found most entertaining of that list (and thus the easiest to sustain interest in) are:

Truman Capote; In Cold Blood

John McPhee; Coming into the Country (about the kind of people who live in Alaska and actually succeed at it. McPhee's a great writer, and not stuffy at all; his writing almost seems like he's there talking to you about all the interesting stuff and weird people he's seen.)

Mark Twain; Life on the Mississippi (it's about Twain's life as a steamboat captain before he became a writer, and it's not only interesting, but often hilarious, too)

Answer 6

They are all very similar topics and page lengths so I would choose the one that sounds the most interesting to you since you waited till the last minute.

Answer 7

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

But if you are a guy, you might not like it.