I am 10 books short of my 2025 reading goal due to work, school, life, etc. I am looking for some shorter reads, preferably fiction but open to non fiction, that you all have enjoyed to try to reach my goal!
My recent reads include-
•Tuesdays with Morrie
•The Correspondent
•I Who Have Never Known Men
•Every Summer After
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions 😊
by bbauerlien
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Maybe try some medieval mysteries or cozy mysteries. Margaret Frazier’s two sets of medieval mysteries are generally quick and fun reads. She’s great at the setting recreations. For nonfiction, Penguin has a series of short nonfiction books that are typically small tastes of the work by great writers–you can read some of them in one sitting or one day. Orwell’s *Why I Write,* Seneca’s *On the Shortness of Life*, Thomas Paine’s *Common Sense*, and Marcus Aurelius’s *Meditations* are the ones I’ve read, but they have others.
I am on the search for some shorter reads too. One that I DEVOURED last week was [The Deep by Rivers Solomon](https://amzn.to/44XgbFB). I had it on my TBR for ever and I am so mad at myself that I didn’t read it sooner. It is a beautiful piece of speculative fiction about what if the women who were thrown over board during the slave trade because they were pregnant had given birth and those children adapted to the ocean and lived. SOOOO Good!
I hope you find something awesome for you!
[Small Things Like These](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58662236) by Claire Keegan
[Winter in Sokcho](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52873922) by Elisa Shua Dusapin
[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41732827) by Muriel Spark
[Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56953435) by Cho Nam Joo
[The Awakening](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58345) by Kate Chopin
[The House on Mango Street](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139253) by Sandra Cisneros
[Invisible Cities](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27385980) by Italo Calvino
[In the Cafe of Lost Youth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25739238) by Patrick Modiano
The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey
Thoughtful / dreamy / spare of the *Never Known Men* ilk:
* One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad – ~200 pages
* Train Dreams by Denis Johnson – ~ 120 pahes
* Foster by Claire Keegan – ~100 pages
* The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld – ~250 pages
* Cellist of Sarajevo by Galloway – ~230 pages
* Tinkers by Paul Harding – ~200 pages
Wide self reflections, a la *Correspondant*:
* Why Fish Dont Exist by Lulu Miller – ~250 pages
Life Lessons, akin to *Morrie*:
* Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates – ~175 pages
* We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – ~65 pages
Non Fiction worth reading
* Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green -~200 pages
10 books, about 1400 pages, 20 days to go… you got this 🙂
Catcher in the Rye
Brokeback Mountain
The Metamorphosis
The Yellow Wallpaper
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Siddhartha
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Giver
Hatchet