Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Just finished reading it for Literature of the Strange, and I enjoyed it very much. It's sci-fi. It has ~130 2-6 page chapters.
It's about a man, John (who calls himself Jonah), who in the process of writing a book about the atomic bomb, finds out that the "father" of the atomic bomb invented something else before he died. He called it ice-nine, an ice-like solid that turns any liquid it touches into ice. After he dies, his children each take a shard of it and go their separate ways. Curious, John/Jonah seeks them out, and in the process, witnesses the most horrific thing he will ever see...
I won't say anything else in case you want to read it. ;)
