Even though we all love books, sometimes we need something a little shorter than average. Sometimes, we don’t have the time or attention span for a longer tome (I’m looking at you Stormlight Archive). I have four small kids, so I understand that. Sometimes, we need a pallet cleanser between our larger meals. Whatever your reason, these books are short but highly entertaining. Enjoy!
Fantasy:
# of pages: 121
A tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.
# of pages: 198
Cheesemaker Brie has the world’s worst luck in love, which is how she ends up falling for a lactose intolerant werewolf.
# of pages: 64
‘A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They’re the same thing really.’
# of pages: 166
A professor travels the dreamworld to save her student.
# of pages: 128
The tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.
# of pages: 195
Swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.
# of pages: 176
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests
# of pages: 166
A story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory.
# of pages: 119
A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty.
Science Fiction:
# of pages: 144
A murderous android discovers itself in a tense science fiction adventure.
# of pages: 156
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter.
# of pages: 177
A sizzling heist turned rom-com told from the point of view of a sarcastic and witty space scavenger.
# of pages: 192
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
# of pages: 199
Two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.
# of pages: 198
A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.
# of pages: 194
Set in a future where firemen start fires by burning books.
# of pages: 103
This blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work.
Nonfiction:
# of pages: 127
A guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.
# of pages: 158
The incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing.
# of pages: 152
A definitive compendium of food wisdom.
Amazon
# of pages: 158
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause.
# of pages: 65
A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy.
# of pages: 97
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series.
# of pages: 224
Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival.
# of pages: 152
A book that clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
# of pages: 106
Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose.
Horror:
# of pages: 96
A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle.
# of pages: 144
A space explorer is rescued by an alien species with an unsettling ship.
# of pages: 149
A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?
# of pages: 167
A creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.
# of pages: 248
The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and the havoc it caused.
# of pages: 171
Journey back to Castle Rock again in this chilling new novella.
# of pages: 209
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
Anthology:
# of pages: 127
Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics.
# of pages: 158
What happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of nowhere.
# of pages: 186
Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations! the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man
# of pages: 182
This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu’s experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life.
# of pages: 210
Wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables, populated by people- and monsters and trees and jocular octopi- who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire.
# of pages: 224
Eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan.
# of pages: 224
Earth is ruled by master-machines but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to endure humans maintain the upper hand.
# of pages: 182
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet.
Classics:
# of pages: 118
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed.
# of pages: 112
This novel imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.
# of pages: 243
An astounding novel of decadence, debauchery, and secrecy from one of Ireland’s greatest writers
# of pages: 120
A candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
# of pages: 141
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
# of pages: 184
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and cold-hearted businessman, is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former partner and three spirits.
# of pages: 162
The hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago.
# of pages: 62
A sharp critique of the societal norms of the 19th century.
# of pages: 192
A celebrated suspense novella filled with fear, power and madness.
# of pages: 144
Psychological suspense mixes with elements of science fiction to create an extraordinary thriller with wit.
Mystery
# of pages: 174
When the wealthy Emily Inglethorp is found poisoned in her grand English manor, suspicion falls on everyone at Styles Court.
# of pages: 143
After the death of her daughter, a sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit
# of pages: 212
There’s a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles.
# of pages: 224
A retired military man sparks Miss Marble’s curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murderer.
# of pages: 146
A gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
# of pages: 235
Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.
# of pages: 222
The village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.
# of pages: 127
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder.
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