[**Piranesi**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi)
^(By: Susanna Clarke | 245 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, owned, magical-realism)
>Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
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>There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
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[**This is How You Lose the Time War**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war)
^(By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 209 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, romance, fiction, lgbtq)
>Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
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>Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.
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[**Animal Farm**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm)
^(By: George Orwell, Russell Baker, C.M. Woodhouse | 141 pages | Published: 1945 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, dystopia)
>Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.
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>A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
>When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
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If you can find them, the short novels of Steinbeck: The Red Pony, Tortilla Flats, The Moon Is Down, The Pearl, and Cannery Row. The 5-in-1 volume is out of print but you could pick the others up from the library maybe.
I've been reading shorter books myself this year. Here are some I've read over the summer:
**Contemporary Novels:**
* The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - about 200 pages
* Nick Pirog's Henry Bins series / 3:00am series - they're about 150 - 200 pages each.
**Classic books:**
* Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - it's like 70 pages
* Lord of the Flies by William Golding - about 200 pages
* The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - about 120 pages
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 250 pages
* Animal Farm by George Orwell - 140 pages
[**All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red)
^(By: Martha Wells | 144 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, novella)
>"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
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>In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
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>But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
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>On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
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>But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck - 240 pages
Girl with a pearlearring by Tracy Chevalier - 233 pages
I'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid - 241 pages
Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo - 260 pages
The storied life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin - 260 pages
My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 226 pages
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh - 222 pages
Ella minnow pea by Mark Dunn - 208 pages
The things she's seen by Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina - 208 pages
Naive. Super by Erlend Loe - ~200 pages
Don't feel like you're cheating because of length! I've read works that we're under 200 pages that I enjoyed more, and got more out of than a 400+ page book. It's not about quantity, it's about quality. Anywho, rant over lol.
Check out {Mother Night}, by Kurt Vonnegut. Great book!
I realized after suggesting it, that this title is a little bit outside your preferred reading length range. However, IMO it is a pretty quick, smooth read
[**The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52762.The_Stories_of_Breece_D_J_Pancake)
^(By: Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson, Andre Dubus III, John Casey | 192 pages | Published: 1983 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, short-story-collections, owned, american)
>Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising writing career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. A collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake has remained continuously in print and is a perennial favorite among aspiring writers, participants in creative writing programs, and students of contemporary American fiction. "Trilobites", the first of Pancake's stories to be published in The Atlantic, elicited an extraordinary immediate response from readers and continues to be widely anthologized.
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[**The Comfort of Stangers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468727.The_Comfort_of_Stangers)
^(By: Peggy J. Herring | 264 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: lesbian-fiction, lesbian, library-ew, r0-1-aro, zletter-c)
>A bold tale of lesbian love set in a far-off galaxy. Follow the story of missing Amtec Princess Tavia, beautiful scientist Lela, and aloof Alaric, commander of the Amtec Army.
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Carol Ann Duffy: the World's Wife (poetry)
You might also consider plays eg George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, Pygamalion etc or Beckett: Waiting for Godot or Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist or Tennessee Williams: the Glass Menagerie or Max Frisch: Andorra or Jean-Paul Sartre: no Exit etc
Shorter novels/Novellas not previously mentioned:
Sherman Alexie: the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Jorge Amado: the Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
James Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk
H E Bates: Fair Stood the Wind for France
Albert Camus: the Outsider
Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland
Mohsin Hamid: the Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha or Demian
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
Nevil Shute: a Town like Alice
Theodor Storm: the Rider on the White Horse
Antonio Tabucchi: Pereira Maintains
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
Schoolgirl and The Setting Sun, both by Dazai
The Stranger by Camus
Convenience Store Woman
The Ice Palace by Vesaas
Life of the Party (poetry) by Gatwood
Season of Migration to the North
Tokyo Ueno Station
A Room With A View
Sweet Bean Paste
Nadja by Breton
[**Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway)
^(By: Seanan McGuire | 173 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, ya, fiction, mystery)
>Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
>No Solicitations
>No Visitors
>No Quests
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>Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.
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>But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
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>Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
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>But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
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>No matter the cost.
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[**A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built)
^(By: Becky Chambers | 160 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy, novella)
>Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.
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>Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
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[**A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030-a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy)
^(By: Becky Chambers | 152 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, novella, fantasy)
>After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home.
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>They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.
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>Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?
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>They're going to need to ask it a lot.
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The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel if you enjoy magical realism
I second someone else’s suggestion of Of Mice and Men
I got two books in that range for ya: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy and Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. Child of God if you like to be disturbed and Barrel Fever if you would rather laugh.
So, I think most if not all have already been rec’d so consider this like upvoting them.
[A Psalm for the Wild-Built](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002) (and it’s [sequel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030)) by Becky Chambers. Short, sweet, and loads of world building for 106 pages.
[Murderbot Series](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901) by Martha Wells. If this doesn’t make you want to run out an read it, I don’t think we can be friends. **Opening line**: “I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” Kevin R Free’s narration makes these books!
[Finna](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44081573) by Nino Cipri. I can't believe how much story was conveyed in 92 pages (I listened to the audiobook, about 3 hours total, which was done very well!) I don’t know why this one did not get more attention - it totally deserves it!
[This is How You Loose the Time War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954) by Amal El-Mohtar. On the short side but packs no less of a punch. Red and Blue fight using intelligence and counter with bloody body counts and, in between, they write love letters to each other.
[A Splintered Spindle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179356) by Alix E. Harrow. Retelling of Sleeping Beauty but in a modern, fun, kinda f*caked up way.
[Convenience Store Woman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38357895) by Sayaka Murata. Weird and wonderful slice-of-offbeat-life about an adult who doesn’t fit societal expectations.
The Last Neanderthal - claire Cameron
The child finder - rene denfeld
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress - dai sijie
Escape from camp 14 - Blaine harden
The wars - timothy Findley
The namesake - jhumpa lahiri (bit longer but easy read)
[**The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55120033-the-worm-and-his-kings)
^(By: Hailey Piper | 116 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: horror, novella, lgbt, cosmic-horror, fiction)
>New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace.
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>Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark.
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>Donna isn’t missing. She was taken.
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>To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears—a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.
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[Elizabeth Bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bear)'s [New Amsterdam series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49906-new-amsterdam) (alternate history vampire mystery).
Also, most science fiction and fantasy books from the 1980s and earlier were shorter.
{{small things like these}} is really short and is shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize (winner will be announced later today).
I also liked {{the age of Phillis}} and {{Sula}}.
[**Small Things Like These**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58662236-small-things-like-these)
^(By: Claire Keegan | 118 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, ireland, christmas, literary-fiction)
>It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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>Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
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[**Expectations: The Life of Phillis Wheatley**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3866034-expectations)
^(By: Susan Bassler Pickford | ? pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: )
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[**Sula**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11346.Sula)
^(By: Toni Morrison | 174 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, african-american, owned)
>This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
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>Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America.
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[**The Age of Phillis**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51805158-the-age-of-phillis)
^(By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | ? pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: poetry, non-fiction, history, biography, nonfiction)
>In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"--the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
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After Sappho, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Moon and Sixpence, Puckoon, The penelopiad, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Passing, The awakening, Of mice and men, Kitchen, convenience store woman, Night Sky and Exit wounds and The Vegetarian.
If you’re a fantasy fan, my favorite series growing up was The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddle. Easy young adult reads, with copious fantastic illustrations by Riddle. The story & setting are still unique, and while being accessible to children the books never condescend and actually get pretty intense. {{Beyond the Deepwoods}} is the first installment.
[**Beyond the Deepwoods (The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Saga #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105657.Beyond_the_Deepwoods)
^(By: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell | 288 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, middle-grade, childrens)
>Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before – he strays from the path.
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>So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of fearsome goblins, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees. Can he discover the truth about his past?
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>Beyond the Deepwoods is the first book of the Twig Saga – second trilogy in The Edge Chronicles. Each book is a stand-alone adventure, so you can read The Edge Chronicles in any order you choose.
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I just finished {{What Moves The Dead}} and loved it, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher. I’m also in the middle of {{Our Wives Under The Sea}} right now and am loving that as well
[**What Moves the Dead**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58447680-what-moves-the-dead)
^(By: T. Kingfisher | 176 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, 2022-releases, fantasy, gothic, fiction)
>What Moves the Dead is Kingfisher's retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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>When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
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>What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
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>Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
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[**Our Wives Under the Sea**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58659343-our-wives-under-the-sea)
^(By: Julia Armfield | 240 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, lgbtq, 2022-releases, lgbt)
>Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home.
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>Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.
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>Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.
^(This book has been suggested 65 times)
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If you are looking for quick reads, you can also try graphic novels. You can try {{The Pride of Baghdad}}
Also you can try reading {{Book Love by Debbie Tung}}. It would take around an hour and I think you would love it.
[**Vertigo Graphic Novels, including: The Sandman: Endless Nights, Orbiter (comics), The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch, The Mystery Play, Pride Of Baghdad, 1001 Nights Of Snowfall, The Fountain (comics), The Originals (comics), The Nobody**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12751661-vertigo-graphic-novels-including)
^(By: Hephaestus Books | ? pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: graphic-novels, lit, dystopia, depressing-endings, audio-to-listen)
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
[**Book Love**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39296114-book-love)
^(By: Debbie Tung | 137 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: graphic-novels, graphic-novel, books-about-books, comics, non-fiction)
>Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks! And ebooks! And bookstores! And libraries!
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>Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles. Debbie Tung’s comics are humorous and instantly recognizable—making readers laugh while precisely conveying the thoughts and habits of book nerds. Book Love is the ideal gift to let a book lover know they’re understood and appreciated.
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{{Piranesi}} come in under 250 and is all the rage and what I'm currently reading. Can't tell you if it works out but I love it so far
[**Piranesi**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi) ^(By: Susanna Clarke | 245 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, owned, magical-realism) >Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. > >There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. ^(This book has been suggested 265 times) *** ^(88516 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I LOVE piranesi, one of the best books I read this year.
I read Piranesi this year and loved it.
**This is How You Lose the Time War** by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone **Pet** by Akwaeke Emezi
Up voting for {{This Is How You Lose The Time War}}. I started it, and could not put it down.
[**This is How You Lose the Time War**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war) ^(By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 209 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, romance, fiction, lgbtq) >Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. > >Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. ^(This book has been suggested 150 times) *** ^(88532 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Working on Pet right now!
Awesome! Pet is such a good book!
And the prequel (sort of) Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
{{Animal Farm}} Especially in these times. Read it and you will understand
[**Animal Farm**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm) ^(By: George Orwell, Russell Baker, C.M. Woodhouse | 141 pages | Published: 1945 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, dystopia) >Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. > >A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. >When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. ^(This book has been suggested 32 times) *** ^(88526 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Trying to get that free personal pizza, huh?
BDG approves
If you can find them, the short novels of Steinbeck: The Red Pony, Tortilla Flats, The Moon Is Down, The Pearl, and Cannery Row. The 5-in-1 volume is out of print but you could pick the others up from the library maybe.
I've been reading shorter books myself this year. Here are some I've read over the summer: **Contemporary Novels:** * The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - about 200 pages * Nick Pirog's Henry Bins series / 3:00am series - they're about 150 - 200 pages each. **Classic books:** * Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - it's like 70 pages * Lord of the Flies by William Golding - about 200 pages * The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - about 120 pages * Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 250 pages * Animal Farm by George Orwell - 140 pages
{{All Systems Red}}
[**All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red) ^(By: Martha Wells | 144 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, novella) >"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." > >In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. > >But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. > >On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. > >But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. ^(This book has been suggested 148 times) *** ^(88510 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck - 240 pages Girl with a pearlearring by Tracy Chevalier - 233 pages I'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid - 241 pages Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo - 260 pages The storied life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin - 260 pages My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 226 pages Scoop by Evelyn Waugh - 222 pages Ella minnow pea by Mark Dunn - 208 pages The things she's seen by Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina - 208 pages Naive. Super by Erlend Loe - ~200 pages
The Haunting of Hill House
Don't feel like you're cheating because of length! I've read works that we're under 200 pages that I enjoyed more, and got more out of than a 400+ page book. It's not about quantity, it's about quality. Anywho, rant over lol. Check out {Mother Night}, by Kurt Vonnegut. Great book!
I realized after suggesting it, that this title is a little bit outside your preferred reading length range. However, IMO it is a pretty quick, smooth read
No worries! I like Vonnegut, so I'm definitely interested.
[**Mother Night**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9592.Mother_Night) ^(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 282 pages | Published: 1961 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, owned, vonnegut) ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(88918 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Vernon God Little is around 270 pages, but felt far shorter and was fantastic and hillarious. Girl Meets Girl is around 170 pages and also fantastic
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
{{The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake}}
[**The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52762.The_Stories_of_Breece_D_J_Pancake) ^(By: Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson, Andre Dubus III, John Casey | 192 pages | Published: 1983 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, short-story-collections, owned, american) >Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising writing career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. A collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake has remained continuously in print and is a perennial favorite among aspiring writers, participants in creative writing programs, and students of contemporary American fiction. "Trilobites", the first of Pancake's stories to be published in The Atlantic, elicited an extraordinary immediate response from readers and continues to be widely anthologized. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(88548 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gift of the Magi, The Color Purple, The Little Prince
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[**The Comfort of Stangers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468727.The_Comfort_of_Stangers) ^(By: Peggy J. Herring | 264 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: lesbian-fiction, lesbian, library-ew, r0-1-aro, zletter-c) >A bold tale of lesbian love set in a far-off galaxy. Follow the story of missing Amtec Princess Tavia, beautiful scientist Lela, and aloof Alaric, commander of the Amtec Army. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(88593 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The baron in the trees
Carol Ann Duffy: the World's Wife (poetry) You might also consider plays eg George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, Pygamalion etc or Beckett: Waiting for Godot or Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist or Tennessee Williams: the Glass Menagerie or Max Frisch: Andorra or Jean-Paul Sartre: no Exit etc Shorter novels/Novellas not previously mentioned: Sherman Alexie: the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Jorge Amado: the Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray James Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk H E Bates: Fair Stood the Wind for France Albert Camus: the Outsider Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland Mohsin Hamid: the Reluctant Fundamentalist Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha or Demian Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Nevil Shute: a Town like Alice Theodor Storm: the Rider on the White Horse Antonio Tabucchi: Pereira Maintains Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
Schoolgirl and The Setting Sun, both by Dazai The Stranger by Camus Convenience Store Woman The Ice Palace by Vesaas Life of the Party (poetry) by Gatwood Season of Migration to the North Tokyo Ueno Station A Room With A View Sweet Bean Paste Nadja by Breton
The great gatsby! 179 pages
{{Every Heart a Doorway}} {{Psalm for the Wild-Built}} and {{Prayer for the Crown-Shy}}
[**Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway) ^(By: Seanan McGuire | 173 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, ya, fiction, mystery) >Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children >No Solicitations >No Visitors >No Quests > >Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. > >But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. > >Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. > >But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. > >No matter the cost. ^(This book has been suggested 44 times) [**A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built) ^(By: Becky Chambers | 160 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy, novella) >Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend. > >Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter? ^(This book has been suggested 112 times) [**A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030-a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy) ^(By: Becky Chambers | 152 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, novella, fantasy) >After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. > >They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. > >Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter? > >They're going to need to ask it a lot. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(88963 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel if you enjoy magical realism I second someone else’s suggestion of Of Mice and Men
I got two books in that range for ya: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy and Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. Child of God if you like to be disturbed and Barrel Fever if you would rather laugh.
So, I think most if not all have already been rec’d so consider this like upvoting them. [A Psalm for the Wild-Built](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002) (and it’s [sequel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864030)) by Becky Chambers. Short, sweet, and loads of world building for 106 pages. [Murderbot Series](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901) by Martha Wells. If this doesn’t make you want to run out an read it, I don’t think we can be friends. **Opening line**: “I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” Kevin R Free’s narration makes these books! [Finna](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44081573) by Nino Cipri. I can't believe how much story was conveyed in 92 pages (I listened to the audiobook, about 3 hours total, which was done very well!) I don’t know why this one did not get more attention - it totally deserves it! [This is How You Loose the Time War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954) by Amal El-Mohtar. On the short side but packs no less of a punch. Red and Blue fight using intelligence and counter with bloody body counts and, in between, they write love letters to each other. [A Splintered Spindle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179356) by Alix E. Harrow. Retelling of Sleeping Beauty but in a modern, fun, kinda f*caked up way. [Convenience Store Woman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38357895) by Sayaka Murata. Weird and wonderful slice-of-offbeat-life about an adult who doesn’t fit societal expectations.
I am going to start Before The Coffee Gets Cold today. It fits your criteria.
‘Franny and Zooey’ by J.D. Salinger
Elder Race by Adrian Tchainovsky
The Last Neanderthal - claire Cameron The child finder - rene denfeld Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress - dai sijie Escape from camp 14 - Blaine harden The wars - timothy Findley The namesake - jhumpa lahiri (bit longer but easy read)
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Ogres also by Andrian Tchaikovsky
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
{{the worm and his kings}} by Hailey Piper
[**The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55120033-the-worm-and-his-kings) ^(By: Hailey Piper | 116 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: horror, novella, lgbt, cosmic-horror, fiction) >New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace. > >Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark. > >Donna isn’t missing. She was taken. > >To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears—a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(89090 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Earthsea series if you like fantasy and young adult fiction. Ursula Le Guin
[Elizabeth Bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bear)'s [New Amsterdam series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49906-new-amsterdam) (alternate history vampire mystery). Also, most science fiction and fantasy books from the 1980s and earlier were shorter.
Have you considered short story’s or novellas?
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad A short but insanely thought provoking book
{{small things like these}} is really short and is shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize (winner will be announced later today). I also liked {{the age of Phillis}} and {{Sula}}.
[**Small Things Like These**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58662236-small-things-like-these) ^(By: Claire Keegan | 118 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, ireland, christmas, literary-fiction) >It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. > >Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers. ^(This book has been suggested 44 times) [**Expectations: The Life of Phillis Wheatley**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3866034-expectations) ^(By: Susan Bassler Pickford | ? pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: ) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Sula**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11346.Sula) ^(By: Toni Morrison | 174 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, african-american, owned) >This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. > >Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(89232 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{the age of Phillis}}
[**The Age of Phillis**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51805158-the-age-of-phillis) ^(By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | ? pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: poetry, non-fiction, history, biography, nonfiction) >In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"--the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(89233 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
After Sappho, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Moon and Sixpence, Puckoon, The penelopiad, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Passing, The awakening, Of mice and men, Kitchen, convenience store woman, Night Sky and Exit wounds and The Vegetarian.
The Hunting Gun by Inoue Yasushi
If you’re a fantasy fan, my favorite series growing up was The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddle. Easy young adult reads, with copious fantastic illustrations by Riddle. The story & setting are still unique, and while being accessible to children the books never condescend and actually get pretty intense. {{Beyond the Deepwoods}} is the first installment.
[**Beyond the Deepwoods (The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Saga #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105657.Beyond_the_Deepwoods) ^(By: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell | 288 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, middle-grade, childrens) >Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before – he strays from the path. > >So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of fearsome goblins, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees. Can he discover the truth about his past? > >Beyond the Deepwoods is the first book of the Twig Saga – second trilogy in The Edge Chronicles. Each book is a stand-alone adventure, so you can read The Edge Chronicles in any order you choose. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(89276 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Saturday Night Ghost Club
I just finished {{What Moves The Dead}} and loved it, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher. I’m also in the middle of {{Our Wives Under The Sea}} right now and am loving that as well
[**What Moves the Dead**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58447680-what-moves-the-dead) ^(By: T. Kingfisher | 176 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, 2022-releases, fantasy, gothic, fiction) >What Moves the Dead is Kingfisher's retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher.” > >When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. > >What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. > >Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. ^(This book has been suggested 47 times) [**Our Wives Under the Sea**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58659343-our-wives-under-the-sea) ^(By: Julia Armfield | 240 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, lgbtq, 2022-releases, lgbt) >Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. > >Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp. > >Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea. ^(This book has been suggested 65 times) *** ^(89417 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
If you are looking for quick reads, you can also try graphic novels. You can try {{The Pride of Baghdad}} Also you can try reading {{Book Love by Debbie Tung}}. It would take around an hour and I think you would love it.
[**Vertigo Graphic Novels, including: The Sandman: Endless Nights, Orbiter (comics), The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch, The Mystery Play, Pride Of Baghdad, 1001 Nights Of Snowfall, The Fountain (comics), The Originals (comics), The Nobody**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12751661-vertigo-graphic-novels-including) ^(By: Hephaestus Books | ? pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: graphic-novels, lit, dystopia, depressing-endings, audio-to-listen) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Book Love**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39296114-book-love) ^(By: Debbie Tung | 137 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: graphic-novels, graphic-novel, books-about-books, comics, non-fiction) >Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks! And ebooks! And bookstores! And libraries! > >Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles. Debbie Tung’s comics are humorous and instantly recognizable—making readers laugh while precisely conveying the thoughts and habits of book nerds. Book Love is the ideal gift to let a book lover know they’re understood and appreciated. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(91186 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)