British Authors Books?

Question

I don't really like to read, but if the book is REALLY interesting I wouldn't mind reading it, but a too long one =x cause i read really slow. it has to be a book from a British author and the list is this:
if someone can please name some books by some of these authors that are interesting and not too long (200 pages?)

Monica Ali

Margaret Atwood

Jane Austen

Aphra Behn

Emily Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Lewis Carroll

Wilkie Collins

Joseph Conrad

Daniel Defoe

Anita Desai

Kiran Desai

Charles Dickens

Arthur Conan Doyle

T.S. Eliot

George Eliot

Ford Maddux Ford

E.M. Forster

Elizabeth Gaskell

William Golding

Graham Greene

Thomas Hardy

Kazuo Ishiguro

James Joyce

D.H. Lawrence

Doris Lesssing

C.S. Lewis

W. Somerset Maugham

Ian McEwan

John Milton

Thomas More

V.S. Naipaul

George Orwell

William Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw

Gertrude Stein

Robert Louis Stevenson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Evelyn Waugh

H.G. Wells

Oscar Wilde

P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Additional Details

i like reading books like Brick Lane by monica ali like that keep me to the book. (but its too long =()

Answer 1

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Heart of Darkness by Conrad is probably the shortest one I can think of from this list, though The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson would be close-- and I think you'd enjoy it more than Heart. Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Grey wouldn't be too bad either.

H.G. Wells' Invisible Man or War of the Worlds aren't too bad.

I like Wodehouse's Jeeve series-- I find them very funny but they're not to everyone's taste.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte isn't too long. It's not one of my favorites, but other people love it. You might like Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice but they're a bit longer than some of the others I've named. I liked both of them a lot, but people's tastes differ.

Orwell's Animal Farm is shorter than 1984.

You might like Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles.

I don't think you'd like James Joyce.

Good luck with finding something you'd like.

Answer 2

Don't forget Sue Townsend she lives in Leicester like me =] her granddaughter is one of my friends.

Answer 3

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Answer 4

for George Orwell- Animal Farm is okay, and i think it is only like 150 pgs.

Answer 5

I don't know any short books by these authors, but please don't read Shakespeare, you'll end up being really confused and it will ruin watching Shakespeare. Also because you're not supposed to read Shakespeare, you're supposed to watch it.