Short Books

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
List of short books to read. See the complete list on the provided link.

Short on time (or attention!)? Check out one of these shorter novels, most around 200 pages or less. 

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Clear by Carys Davies

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Find info about these titles and others at https://libguides.viterbo.edu/Booklists/short_books