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15 Short Books Under 200 Pages to Help You Reach Your 2025 Reading Goal
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items We’ve all been there; it’s suddenly November and you realize that you have 10 more books to read to hit your goodreads goal for the year. Here are some books you can enjoy in just a day or two to help you blow your goal out of the water
This is a classic AND it has pictures. In the sleepy town of Tarker’s Mill, each month at least one person ends up mysteriously brutally murdered. The culprit and the hero might just be the most unlikely of all of the town’s citizens.
Cycle of the Werewolf book by Stephen King
One of my favorites! This is an unsettling novel about a single woman in Japan who refuses to conform to the societal norms she doesn’t want to and conforms way too enthusiastically to the ones she does.
Convenience Store Woman book by Sayaka Murata
I know the caption is in Swedish but I promise this is the English version. Maud likes to be left alone. After all, she’s 88 and has no friends and no family. She goes when and where she pleases and keeps the apartment she and her sister once shared....
Äldre dam med onda avsikter book by Helene Tursten
Eleanor West’s Home For Wayward Children is not your typical boarding school. Children who are sent here have accidentally gone down rabbit holes, climbed through trap doors, hid underneath a bed and accidentally ended up in an entirely different wor...
Every Heart a Doorway book by Seanan McGuire
If you’re someone who struggles with executive function, you NEED this book. How to Keep House While Drowning has some incredibly useful tips for when you know you can’t complete the whole task but also know you need to make progress
How to Keep House While Drowning: A... book by K.C. Davis
What a truly heartbreaking tale! A child is given to relatives for a short period of time while her mother is pregnant with yet another child. Here, she flourishes but are her new care takers keeping something from her?
Foster book by Claire Keegan
After a terrible accident, teenage hacker Barbara Gordon is sent to live at the Arkham Center for Independence against her will. There, she’s reluctant to socialize but a friend finds her in the middle of the night. She tells Barbara stories until sh...
The Oracle Code book by Marieke Nijkamp
A genuinely beautiful graphic novel that will punch you right in the heart. An anonymous delivery boy must deliver a package to The Resident. Once at the correct location, he’s met with a massive, raucous party he must wade through in order to delive...
The Last Delivery book by Evan Dahm
A young northern royal, In-Yo, is sent south for a political marriage that may help cease the slaughter of her people. Rabbit, a handmaiden, befriends In-Yo and they both get more than they bargained for.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune book by Nghi Vo
This is a particularly poignant book for our current political time. Luiselli asks undocumented children on the brink of deportation 40 important questions that highlight the differences between the idea of America and the reality of existing here.
Tell Me How It Ends book by Valeria Luiselli
This is the literary equivalent to “would you still love me if I were a worm?”
The Metamorphosis book by Franz Kafka
This is one of those stories that ends exactly how you think it will and yet, somehow surprises you when it does. Merrikat and her family have always lived a little farther away from town and tend not to associate with other people. The towns people ...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle book by Shirley Jackson
You probably read this in high school but it’s a good one to revisit! In Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600s, each citizen seems to be more pious than the next until a vengeful teenager accuses Goody Proctor of witchcraft. Accusations fly and thin...
The Crucible book by Arthur Miller
A science fiction classic, a man uses a time machine to go to the future and interacts with two different versions of what used to be human beings that are now rivals.
The Time Machine book by H.G. Wells
This books is a collection of Sarah Scibbles comics that lament adult things like having to stay in professional work clothes all day or sitting on the computer when it’s beautiful outside.
Adulthood Is a Myth book by Sarah Andersen