Squashed Books
Just came across www.thehundredbooks.com, which also is the home of Squashed Editions. These kind folks have taken the hundred books you’re supposed to have read in order to be A Literate And Erudite Person and, well, squashed them. Let’s think of it as a kindness towards people who looked at authors like Dickens and thought, “I just can’t quite eat the whole whale,” and passed on by. Now you can try a snack-sized portion as an inducement to read the original in its entirety!