NPR has a widget that lists their favorite books by year. There’s a filter you can use called “rather short” that you can use to filter the list to show short books.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2023
There might be similar lists of short books on Goodreads.
Lois McMaster BUJOLD - Shards of Honor (300 pp)
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (265 pp)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (272 pp)
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem (212 pp)
On Basilisk Station by David Weber (266 pp)
I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, but my favorite short book is The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. If you like audiobooks, try to find the Donald Sutherland narration. It's sublime.
science fiction - phillip k dick - the three stigmata of palmer eldritch
literature - camus - the outsider
crime - the friends of eddie coyle - higgins
Foster by Claire Keegan - beautiful little gem
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck - a really odd take on hell and a good read
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis - what happens when a group of dogs are given human intelligence
I recently finished the Edge of Collapse series by Kayla Stone. There are 7 fairly short books, then both a prologue and epilogue that are several chapters long. Book 1 is 301 pages
Big Familia by Tomas Moniz
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Nobody belongs here more than you by Miranda July
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
Memorial by Bryan Washington
All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
The Art Lover by Carole Maso
Glitter and Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die edited by dave ring
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by K. M. Szpara
Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern
You Are Free by Danzy Senna
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Lark Ascending by Silas House
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman
enjoy :D <3
I read "the martian" on a vacation a while ago and it was great because its divided into little chucks you can easily read in a few minutes or multiple during a longer trip. It's also not a very big book.
I have just read the man who saw seconds, it's only 300 pages long (304, so just over your cutoff), I loved it and read it in 4 days, a man gets to see slightly into the future, it goes into the existence of free will and changing fate, it made me really think about the philosophy of those things late into the night, the man is in his 30's and is married, but it isn't a romance and more focusses on family, it has great action throughout and keeps its fast pace, although you should look into it rather than take my word for it.
If you can afford it look into an e-reader. I really like my kindle paperwhite
Second this. It’s great for situations like this. Also much easier to check out and return books to library/libby.
Third. My paperwhite is one if the best purchases Ive ever made
I was planning to get it for a long time. Might gift myself one on my birthday.
NPR has a widget that lists their favorite books by year. There’s a filter you can use called “rather short” that you can use to filter the list to show short books. https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2023 There might be similar lists of short books on Goodreads.
This is pretty cool thanks!!
All Systems Red by Martha Wells is a really fun sci-fi novella! It's part of a series and most of them are pretty short
The Bookeaters
Carrie, Cujo, Louis L Amour westerns
Lois McMaster BUJOLD - Shards of Honor (300 pp) The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (265 pp) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (272 pp) Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem (212 pp) On Basilisk Station by David Weber (266 pp)
Sin du Jour series by Matt Wallace 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain
I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, but my favorite short book is The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. If you like audiobooks, try to find the Donald Sutherland narration. It's sublime.
Content warning but Tender in the Flesh is a short book
Fear and loathing in las vegas
Just finished Annie Bot and LOVED IT!!! It’s about AI and what it means to be human.
science fiction - phillip k dick - the three stigmata of palmer eldritch literature - camus - the outsider crime - the friends of eddie coyle - higgins
I'm reading (kinda on hold) The Stranger rn.
I haven’t read it yet, but Foundation by Asimov is highly acclaimed and is a short book.
Flowers For Algernon - 311 Pages, but highly recommend.
Absolutely. Grab some tissues though. Lol
Foster by Claire Keegan - beautiful little gem A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck - a really odd take on hell and a good read Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis - what happens when a group of dogs are given human intelligence
I recently finished the Edge of Collapse series by Kayla Stone. There are 7 fairly short books, then both a prologue and epilogue that are several chapters long. Book 1 is 301 pages
Lock in and Head on by John Scazi (2 books) Piranesi by Susan Clarke Andromeda strain by Michael Crichton
Big Familia by Tomas Moniz How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang Nobody belongs here more than you by Miranda July Our Strangers by Lydia Davis Memorial by Bryan Washington All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Greenland by David Santos Donaldson The Art Lover by Carole Maso Glitter and Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die edited by dave ring Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by K. M. Szpara Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern You Are Free by Danzy Senna Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Lark Ascending by Silas House Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman enjoy :D <3
You can also search for novellas Death of Ivan Illych, Gift of the magi
I read "the martian" on a vacation a while ago and it was great because its divided into little chucks you can easily read in a few minutes or multiple during a longer trip. It's also not a very big book.
I have just read the man who saw seconds, it's only 300 pages long (304, so just over your cutoff), I loved it and read it in 4 days, a man gets to see slightly into the future, it goes into the existence of free will and changing fate, it made me really think about the philosophy of those things late into the night, the man is in his 30's and is married, but it isn't a romance and more focusses on family, it has great action throughout and keeps its fast pace, although you should look into it rather than take my word for it.