Have you stopped reading completely and don't know how to pick up a book again? Here are four short (and very entertaining!) novels that will definitely help you.
Normal people, Sally Rooney.
Sinbad.
How can a book in which nothing happens for almost two hundred pages become a world bestseller? Irish writer Sally Rooney knows the answer. The plot of the little novel Normal People, which has long since become Ronnie's calling card, is painfully simple: young and very different characters, Connell and Marian, fall in love at school, then break up, and then get back together a few years later. From this honest and even banal story, Roni manages to create perhaps the main millennium book. The writer gets on the nerves of an entire generation with all his worries, traumas and interests. Almost nothing actually happens in the book, but the dialogue from the novel will definitely stay with you for a long time.
"One child, two boys", Asia Damishkevich.
Alpina. prose.
"I should have taught math better, but what now... " Andrei thinks, looking sadly out the window. Very soon the guy will find himself in a military base together with other bus passengers, and then a new, completely different life will begin. But there is one "but" - Andrei is only thirteen years old, and the military camp he is going to will end in an enchanted forest. Roman Damishkevich is a fairy tale familiar to all of us from childhood: there is a magical assistant, miraculous transformations, and of course, that Baba Yaga. But this legend is not kind at all. Her hero also had to pass a series of tests in order to receive an award according to folklore and grow up. Will he succeed?
"Our heart beats for everyone", Konstantin Zarubin.
"Medusa" publishing house.
Who is the "Moscow artist" running away from? Why should a former campaigner marry an Icelander? What ruined the vacation at sea for a Russian teacher and her daughter? There are several plot lines in the novel by Konstantin Zarubin - and they are all connected.