I’m looking for the best books you’ve read that are under 300 pages long. I am dyslexic so books tend to take me longer to read than most people and I tend to feel overwhelmed at large books, and find myself not reading. I love historical fiction,survival, struggle, frontier life, the west, adventure, WW2. Any suggestions?
by Mamashahk
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True Grit by Charles Portis.
It’s a western, it’s a quick and easy read, quite witty I’d say and a good story
A Flash Of Silver Green : Stories Of The Nature Of Cities
Anthology of short stories about cities and climate change set in the future. Each story is 4-5 pages long.
How about ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ by Jules Verne? I found that to be a really enjoyable adventure to follow and it’s under 250 pages.
You got me curious, so I rounded up some past posts similar to this one.
Novels under 150 pages…
https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/1p08nte/the_best_short_novels_youve_ever_read/
Best short books, fiction or non…
https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/192ws0q/whats_the_best_short_book_youll_ever_read/
Under 200 pages…
https://www.reddit.com/r/RSbookclub/comments/1ipaud4/what_are_your_favourite_short_books_200_pages/
Hit your reading goal…
https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/17qm5ai/short_book_recommendations_so_that_i_can_hit_my/
Short classics…
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicliterature/comments/1l1kk5y/short_book_recommendations/
Short stand-alone books…
https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/17v0ko3/please_recommend_some_short_standalone_books_so_i/
Even more…
https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/1g5fggg/best_short_books_to_get_out_of_a_reading_slump/
Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. He’s a master of concise but descriptive prose.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann.
*Black Sunday: When Weather Claimed the U.S. Fifth Air Force* by Michael John Claringbould.
*Hiroshima* by John Hersey.
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (TX and Mexico – western setting) (320 pgs)
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (an all time fav) – post WWII (245 pgs)
Days Without End – Sebastian Barry (unique premise and beautiful writing) – frontier and civil war setting (259 pgs)
Search Ademonexan Reality Check. 58 pages long
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
Severance by Ling Ma
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (nonfiction)
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans