Shorter books (around 200 pages) to get out of a reading slump or to help pad your stats. Comment if you want recommendations, I’ve read a lot of these.
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last updated August, 2026
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
The Palm House
Gwendoline Riley
Lobster
Guillaume Lecasble
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Watershed
Percival Everett
Slow Boat
Hideo Furukawa
Literally Show Me a Healthy Person
Darcie Wilder
The New Me
Halle Butler
Pick a Color
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Rest and Be Thankful
Emma Glass
Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
Information Age
Cora Lewis
Sulphuric Acid
Amélie Nothomb
Pushkin Hills.
Sergei Dovlatov
Finna
Nino Cipri
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh
Audition
Katie Kitamura
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Emergent Properties
Aimee Ogden
The Tusks of Extinction
Ray Nayler
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz
Businessmen as Lovers
Rosemary Tonks
We Had to Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets
Discontent
Beatriz Serrano
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin
The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
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