Not sure what you count as short (or if some of them are “classics”) but some of the ones I enjoyed include: 1984 (George Orwell) Night (Elie Wiesel) - this one is a trilogy if you really enjoy it Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) Hatchet (Gary Paulsen) To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee) 100 years of solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) Great expectations (Charles Dickens) The Odyssey (Homer)