Here is a list of fictions that you should look into. Most of them are short novellas and would take you about a week to finish.

The Veldt
Of mice and men
Cannery row
Animal farm
The yellow wallpaper
A room of ones's own
East of Eden (a must read)John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat
The hobbit (what made me get into reading)
The little Prince---- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( A book for kids that the adult must read p.s one of my favorite book)
Jonathan Seagull
The ones who walk away from Omelas
The call of the wild
Frankenstein
The Book Thief (a must read)
Fahrenheit 451
Metamorphosis
Kafka on the shore
The importance of being earnest
1984
1Q84
To kill a mocking bird
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The wandering falcon
The Idiot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of flies
The Prince and the Pauper
The call of the wild
Northanger Abbey
A case of Exploding Mangoes.