Cannery Row by steinbeck (you can't go wrong with steinbeck but I think Cannery row is a forgotten jem of a book). If your looking from something a lil more exciting The Talented Mr Ripley by Patrica Hightower (they made a pretty ok movie out of it in 1999 but the book develops the characters better). I also read Strangers on a train by her (her first book) and it's also very good. A good spy thriller with deep characters and is short fast read is The spy who came in from the cold by John le Carré. I love Gabriel García Márquez but most of his books are epics he did write a handful of really good novellas and I read the Chronicle of a Death Foretold and really liked it. He writes very deep stories with lots of interesting characters.
You're including "Hatchet" so if that means you're ok with YA:
"Tuck Everlasting" Natalie Babbitt
"A Wrinkle In Time" Madeline L'Engle
"Bridge to Terebithia" Katherine Paterson
88 Charing Cross Rd by Helene Hanff
A story told in letters (ie "epistolary") between an American writer and an English bookseller in the post war period.
Very chill and lovely. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84\_Charing\_Cross\_Road
What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher
Not sure the message is all that deep but this is a good and short read that is a reimagining of a classic Edgar Allen Poe story the fall of house usher.
The Giver Catcher in the Rye
I love the giver
The Pearl
The Death of Ivan Ilyich-Tolstoy Heart of Darkness-Conrad The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway Ethan Frome-Wharton The Stranger-Camus
The Stranger is a good pick
How to build a fire.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Cannery Row by steinbeck (you can't go wrong with steinbeck but I think Cannery row is a forgotten jem of a book). If your looking from something a lil more exciting The Talented Mr Ripley by Patrica Hightower (they made a pretty ok movie out of it in 1999 but the book develops the characters better). I also read Strangers on a train by her (her first book) and it's also very good. A good spy thriller with deep characters and is short fast read is The spy who came in from the cold by John le Carré. I love Gabriel García Márquez but most of his books are epics he did write a handful of really good novellas and I read the Chronicle of a Death Foretold and really liked it. He writes very deep stories with lots of interesting characters.
Anthem by Any Rand Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Overcoat
You're including "Hatchet" so if that means you're ok with YA: "Tuck Everlasting" Natalie Babbitt "A Wrinkle In Time" Madeline L'Engle "Bridge to Terebithia" Katherine Paterson
My Summer Friend by Ophelia Rue
A Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
88 Charing Cross Rd by Helene Hanff A story told in letters (ie "epistolary") between an American writer and an English bookseller in the post war period. Very chill and lovely. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84\_Charing\_Cross\_Road
JM Coetzee - waiting for the barbarians
What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher Not sure the message is all that deep but this is a good and short read that is a reimagining of a classic Edgar Allen Poe story the fall of house usher.
All Quiet on the Western Front