books under 300 pages — for when u need smthn easy, cramming ur reading goal, or smthn to get out of a slump
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last updated June, 2026
We Belong
Cookie Hiponia
The Weight of Our Sky
Hanna Alkaf
Stay a Little Longer
Dawn Lanuza
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily R. Austin
Poison for Breakfast
Lemony Snicket
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
The River Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar
The Monster of Elendhaven
Jennifer Giesbrecht
The Deal of a Lifetime
Fredrik Backman
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
Neon Yang
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
Kiki's Delivery Service
Eiko Kadono
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Fake Dates and Mooncakes
Sher Lee
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Wounded Little Gods
Eliza Victoria
The Knight and the Butcherbird
Alix E. Harrow
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
Comfort Me With Apples
Catherynne M. Valente
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Stars in Jars: Strange and Fantastic Stories
Dean Francis Alfar
You're Welcome, Universe
Whitney Gardner
Dwellers
Hold Still
Nina LaCour
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
This is How You Lose the Time War
Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories
Yvette Tan
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