Please suggest me your favorite books that are 200ish pages or less. I’m trying to catch up to my reading goal for the year. I’m interested in pretty much anything. Thank you📚 by moonwitch98 Related: Looking for a non-fiction book on the history of the Middle East suggest me a book to escape reality My brother is planning to study programming/coding at university, what books would you recommend him to read? Books dealing with infidelity Romance with specific characterization and story arc?
chemibap on April 18, 2024 7:22 pm Books from The Singing Hills Cycle series (by Nghi Vo) and Murderbot Diaries series (by Martha Wells) are pretty much all 200ish pages or less! I’d also recommend We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
perpetualmotionmachi on April 18, 2024 7:25 pm Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark. It’s set in 1920s Georgia (the state) about a woman with a magical sword that fights the KKK
Potato-4-Skirts on April 18, 2024 7:26 pm Assembly – Natasha Brown Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan Mrs Caliban – Rachel Ingalls Rizzio – Denise Mina
MorriganJade on April 18, 2024 7:30 pm Murderbot diaries series by Martha Wells Remote control by Nnedi Okorafor Monk and robot series by Becky Chambers
MorriganJade on April 18, 2024 7:30 pm Murderbot diaries series by Martha Wells Remote control by Nnedi Okorafor Monk and robot series by Becky Chambers
BooBoo_Cat on April 18, 2024 7:35 pm Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Animal Farm by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Carrie by Stephen King That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Various Roald Dahl books (yes, even as an adult I love them, and I will re-read if I need something short)
Dexter-Knutt on April 18, 2024 7:39 pm Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer Level 7 – Mordecai Roshwald Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Monty-675 on April 18, 2024 7:49 pm Classic books that are in basic, unannotated editions (without copious notes or illustrations that could take them over 200 pages): The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Call of the Wild by Jack London White Fang by Jack London The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Why_do_I_do_this- on April 18, 2024 7:50 pm The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson. Very short yet sooooo good and deep 🤌🏼
DrunkInBooks on April 18, 2024 7:59 pm The Sunflower Protocol Recursion (a bit over but doesn’t feel like it)
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Books from The Singing Hills Cycle series (by Nghi Vo) and Murderbot Diaries series (by Martha Wells) are pretty much all 200ish pages or less!
I’d also recommend We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark. It’s set in 1920s Georgia (the state) about a woman with a magical sword that fights the KKK
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Assembly – Natasha Brown
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
Mrs Caliban – Rachel Ingalls
Rizzio – Denise Mina
Murderbot diaries series by Martha Wells
Remote control by Nnedi Okorafor
Monk and robot series by Becky Chambers
Murderbot diaries series by Martha Wells
Remote control by Nnedi Okorafor
Monk and robot series by Becky Chambers
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Carrie by Stephen King
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Various Roald Dahl books (yes, even as an adult I love them, and I will re-read if I need something short)
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
Level 7 – Mordecai Roshwald
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
“This is How You Lose the Time War” is 198 pages
Classic books that are in basic, unannotated editions (without copious notes or illustrations that could take them over 200 pages):
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson. Very short yet sooooo good and deep 🤌🏼
For a Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny ~30 pages
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Sunflower Protocol
Recursion (a bit over but doesn’t feel like it)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald