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
