Books you can read in one day or less

Books You Can Read in One Day or Less

How are you doing on your reading challenges or goals now that the end of 2018 is quickly approaching? If you still have spots to tick off on your challenge or need to pad your statistics, here are some books that can be read in one day or less.

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

A Separation by Katie Kitamura

Black Olives by Martha Tod Dudman

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Glaciers by Alexis Smith

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

Tinkers by Paul Harding

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Frank by Jon Ronson

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

I Don’t Know by Leah Hager Cohen

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Lying by Lauren Slater

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Seven Years (Bibliomysteries Book 6) by Peter Robinson (and other entries in the Bibliomysteries series)

Idaho Winter by Tony Burgess

On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World by Elizabeth Kadetsky

Elevation by Stephen King

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life by Roger Rosenblatt

And here are some other lists of books you can read in a day or less:

17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting
18 (More) Amazing Novels You Can Read in a Day
Concise But Powerful: 12 Novellas and Short Novels to Read Now

5 Books You Can Read in One Sitting

9 Classic Novellas By Women You Can Read in a Day

8 Great Crime Novels You Can Read in a Day

10 Books That Are Small But Mighty

The books on this list range from 96 to 208 pages.

50 SHORT NONFICTION BOOKS YOU CAN READ IN A DAY (OR TWO)

The books listed here are divided into categories:

  • books under 100 pages
  • books under 200 pages
  • books under 300 pages

And each book description specifies its number of pages, so you’ll have no trouble finding titles to fit your available time.

HOW TO MEET YOUR READING GOALS BY YEAR’S END

Some general strategies as well as specific book suggestions for meeting your reading goals.

© 2018 by Mary Daniels Brown

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