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!!!

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Answer 1

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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 2

nursery rhymes.....

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Answer 3

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
But if you are a guy, you might not like it.

Answer 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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)