I love my 7 book fantasy series where the shortest book is 650 pages……but I also greatly enjoy short, fun, maybe even “cozy” books that don’t require learning a new world full of people.
Any genre, any style, whatever you got, I would love to read it 🙂 Thank you!
by flanman1991
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*Maid Machinegun* by Aaliyah
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Devolution by Max Brooks (remote worker techno hippies are cut off by a natural disaster, and they Bigfoot comes and isn’t friendly)
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore (a white passing Crow real estate exec’s life is turned upside down when the ancient trickster God Coyote takes an interest in him)
Here are some of my shorter stand alone favorites:
[Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331256.Roadside_Picnic) – 145 pages. Sci fi.
[Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53460867-the-memory-theater). 240 pages. fantasy
[Sula by Toni Morrison](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6551707-sula)- 196 pages. Literary.
[Foster by Clair Keegan.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61206869-foster) 62 pages. Literary.
[Soonchild by Russell Hoban.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13479530-soonchild) 144 pages. Magical realism
[RIddley Walker by Russel Hoban.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776573.Riddley_Walker)256 pages. Sci fi
Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw. Main character is undead. Hijinks insue.
Legends and lattes
A good book changes you, makes you think, stays with you forever.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
There is no other book like it. (It’s not fun, but it will leave a profound impact on you)
Very short.
I recently read Legends & Lattes and I found it really cozy! It’s got fantasy elements but not a whole world to learn. I also recommend Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore!
How High We Go in the Dark is a nice collection of short stories that merge together into a novel.
I really enjoyed The Wishing Game. Cozy, short read!
Piranesi
The Blacktongue Thief
Starter Villain and Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi are both hilarious and fun reads.
I also really liked Echogenesis and will rec it forever.
Treasure Island is always a good time.
Library at Mount Char. (It’s in the WTF category for me, but it’s short and a one off. It’s also really good)
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher
{{A Brothers Price by Wen Spencer}}