Is your attention span completely fried? Here are 5 short books you can actually finish—and they’re all like 250 pages 📖 and 4ish hours on audio 🎧
I’ve read over 300 books in the past 4 years and here are my favorite short fiction books ⬇️
A Japanese classic about a widow who moves in with her dead husband’s father, submits to his advances… but becomes obsessed with a servant who barely even notices her. Messy 👀
Thirst for Love
The last father and daughter on Earth living in the mountains. It’s quiet, nature-filled, and reads kind of like a dystopian fable
The Bear
Inspired by the song The Deep by clipping. It follows water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard slave ships, in particular the one they appoint as their “historian” who carries the burden of knowing this trauma so the res...
The Deep
polyamorous queer vampires. Ok? It’s a creative retelling of dracula and his three wives. Gothic and a little spicy
A Dowry of Blood
Aliens and humans live together—but male humans carry alien babies. It’s a wild coming-of-age story. And the rest of the short stories in this book are a mix of sci fis and dystopians that will really make you think!
