Recs if you like Bartleby the Scrivener...

on average people read 40-60 pages an hour, so this is a continuously updated collection of books with 60 pages or less & a couple short story collections

Books for those who want to be well-read without the debt (created by someone with said debt)

Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026

A novel is a prose work typically above 40k words, though many fall between 60-100k. Anything between roughly 17k and 40k words is generally considered a novella, while works between about 7k and 17k words are classified as novelettes, with some flexibility ~

TL;DR - short stories with 7k-17k words. Get out of that slump.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

Every book mentioned in Hwang Bo-Reum's Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

this is the reading list for the Zero To Well-Read podcast hosted by Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky at Book Riot. "A fun and irreverent guide to the books everyone talks about from classics...to modern hits.

updated weekly.

This is a curated list of short stories that are must read for any literature enthusiast! Feel free to post your suggestions in comments.

A reading list that I thought I’d share consisting of all the books on the Brink Literacy Project’s tarot deck. I’m going for completionist and this is here for anyone who’d like to keep track and do the same, or who wants to read classic literature paired with tarot cards 🤗

(Apart from the first five, all books are in order, starting with the Major Arcana, and moving Ace to King through the Wands, Cups, Swords, and then Pentacles suit).

Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.

The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.

Meet the world’s most enduring storytellers with Brief Encounters, a collection of short novels and stories to read in a single sitting, or to savour over days. These are the authors and stories that have shaped literature across the world, made to be enjoyed by everyone.