The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books you can finish
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Fifty short works for adults: philosophy, grief, fantasy, dystopia, love, horror, and several reminders that humans were already complicated without a chatbot.
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Philosophical / fantasy
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Foster
Claire Keegan
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Story of Your Life
Ted Chiang
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Dead
James Joyce
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
Flowers for Algernon (short story)
Daniel Keyes
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
R. L. Stevenson
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
The Fall
Albert Camus
No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
The Employees
Olga Ravn
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter
Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
The True Story of Ah Q
Lu Xun
The Lady with the Dog
Anton Chekhov
Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
Bloodchild
Octavia E. Butler
The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
In a Grove
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
The Veldt
Ray Bradbury
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
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Court records in Bartz v. Anthropic described purchased print books having their bindings removed, pages scanned, and paper copies discarded. A later settlement addressed claims involving a separately acquired pirated library.