if you want to read more but have trouble finishing things, i really recommend short story collections (ESPECIALLY anthologies by multiple authors) and literary magazines. if one story sucks you can just skip to the next one, and anthologies and magazines will have work by multiple authors so you get a wide variety of styles, and if you find a story you really really like, you can look to see if that author's published anything else.
i'm not as well-versed in literary magazines as i should be (trying to fix that), but here are short story collections i suggest:
lesser known monsters of the 21st century by kim fu (speculative fiction, horror). personal favorite story: "pre-simulation consultation xf007867"
the paper menagerie and other stories by ken liu (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "the litigation master and the monkey king"
slasher girls and monster boys by various (horror). personal favorite story: "the birds of azalea street"
what we fed to the manticore by talia lakshmi kolluri (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "the hunted, the haunted, the hungry, the tame"
africa risen by various (afrofuturism, speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "a dream of electric mothers"
a small apocalypse by laura chow reeve (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "real bodies"
the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "dear sister"
a phoenix first must burn by various (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "wherein abigail fields recalls her first death and, subsequently, her best life"
woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "woman hollering creek"
bliss montage by ling ma (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "yeti lovemaking"
how to love a jamaican by alexia arthurs (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "the ghost of jia yi"
radicalized by cory doctorow (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "radicalized"
life ceremony by sayaka murata (literary fiction, horror). personal favorite story: "life ceremony"
shit cassandra saw by gwen e. kirby (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "here preached his last"
through the woods by e.m. carroll (horror). personal favorite story: "his face all red"
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