Book recommendation time! All of these books are between 200 and 400 pages long and I'd consider them mid-length books.
The number of pages given in this post corresponds to the editions I’ve linked to.
I have linked to free editions where possible and links with an asterisk are affiliate links for UK Bookshop.org. You obviously don’t need to use those links!
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Originally written in German, translated by Idris Parry
First published posthumously in 1925
Project Gutenberg | UK Bookshop.org*
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Originally written in Japanese, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
Fantasy with touches of magical realism
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Fiction – beautifully written contemporary literary fiction with a compelling plot
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Fiction – a novel about social rules, codes of behaviour, and sexual awakening
Project Gutenberg | UK Bookshop.org*
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Historical fiction with pirates
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Originally written in Italian, translated by William Weaver
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish
A collection of prose including a work of utopian fiction that has been described as a forerunner of modern science fiction
Project Gutenberg | UK Bookshop.org*
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Originally written in Japanese, translated by Stephen Snyder
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Tiffany Aching #1, Discworld #30
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Originally written in Italian, translated by Ann Goldstein
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Historical fiction with an experimental style
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
Originally written in Middle Early Japanese, translated by Meredith McKinney
A collection of musings and observations about court life in Heian Japan
Internet Archive (Ivan Morris translation) | UK Bookshop.org*
The City & the City by China Miéville
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
Project Gutenberg | UK Bookshop.org*
If you decide to pick up any of these books, please let me know what you think!
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