The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide, you likely won’t be able to finish each of the 5 books in the trilogy in a day but it’s something you can read a hundred times and find a new witty joke somewhere, much like all the Discworld novels.
The Expanse is another that you could burn through a book a day but wow it’s a hell of a story and worth taking your time on each character’s perspective, Outlander is also a good one for the same reasons but those are 1k pagers
murderbot series is fantastic, I love every single entry in the series so far, and they're not very long or unnecessarily complicated; you can finish one in a day or two easy.
The first entry is called "All systems red"
The Martian and Project Hail Mary are some of the best sci-fi-of-tomorrow books I have ever read. Maybe not a single day, but neither are overly long.
I read Andy Weir's The Martian in a single sitting. Book really grabbed me by the face.
The Handmaid's Tale
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Nightfall
The Terminal Experiment
Someone else already suggested it, but I would second Terry Pratchett. Even though most of the books are standalone, I recommend start with the Colour of Magic and follow publication order.
YES!! I started with Guards! Guards! and I am hooked!! They're all so good.
As the librarian would say, "Ook."
If you read the first story (The colour of Magic + The light fantastic) you will know the story of the librarian, he start as a human there hahahah.
Cryptonomicon. It's not really a short book, but it's easily digestible as it has clear divisions where it is suitable to take a break.
The way the WW2 plot and the 90's-plot intertwine is so much fun to read, especially since the 90's characters are descendants of the ww2 characters.
And of course GEB Kavistik would grow up to be a pretentious cunt...
I disagree, I think Cryptonomicon is a very heavy book, might be too much for someone just starting, I've been slowly reading it for months, but I end up getting tired of it and reading something else to rest from it before going back and end up forgetting half of the characters and what they were doing.