We love 400+ pages books, but it's also true that short books also need love too, and believe me you will love short books from this list. Whether we you're trying to catch up to your yearly goal (we all do it) or you are just looking for a great, short book to get you through one of those rare, unoccupied nights, afternoons that always seem to pop up mid-summer, the titles on this list have your back. This are the 7 BOOKS YOU CAN FINISH QUICKLY.
STOP THINKING AND START READING THIS BOOKS YOU CAN FINISH QUICKLY.
1)'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Truman Capote.
Page Count: 179
With the average reader taking only two hours and 16 minutes to finish Truman Capote's novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's you can definitely squeeze this book into an afternoon ( or even spread it across your morning and afternoon commutes) The novella traces the antics, anxieties, and dark glamour, and beauty of the one and only twentieth century American Socialite, Holly Golightly.
2) 'Jesus' Son: Stories' by Denis Johnson
Page Count: 133
In honor of the recent death of a truly one-of-a-kind writer whom the literary world will deeply miss, Denis Johnson’s Jesus son is a collection of semi-linked short stories that just beg to be read in one sitting. The average reader only needs one hour and 53 minutes to read her way through this collection of fiction, which is filled with in-your-face imagery and a cast of thieves, prostitutes, adulterers, and drug addicts who are all just slightly off the mark when it comes to seizing the moments of transformation and redemption in their lives.
3) 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin
Page Count: 96
This one hour and 48 minute read was first published in 1899 — and at the time all 96 pages floored readers with their treatment of a woman’s erotic life and female marital infidelity. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is as beautiful as it was groundbreaking, and 118 years later this one is still worthy of your TBR pile.
4)'Troubling Love' by Elena Ferrante
Page Count: 139
If you don’t have time to dive all the way into the Neopolitan Novels but you still need some Elena Ferrante in your day, consider one of the writer’s shorter novels — like Troubling Love which will only take up about one hour and 58 minutes of your life. Set in Ferrante’s iconic Naples, Italy, Troubling Love was the author’s debut novel, and follows a woman named Delia who is trying to piece together the mystery of her mother’s recent and untimely death.
5) 'A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing' by Eimear McBride
Page Count: 240
Don’t let the fact that this is the longest short novel on this list deter you—even at 240 pages the experimental prose, creative use (or lack thereof) of punctuation, and stream-of-consciousness style make Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing only a three hour and 24 minute read. The novel takes you directly inside the narrators’ minds, as they tell a sensitive and brutal story about the relationship between a young girl and her brother, navigating experiences of sexual violence, family crisis, and mental and physical illness.
6) Paulo Coelho the archer.
Page Count : 130
In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfil, that a life constricted by a fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead, one must take risks, build courage and embrace the unexpected journey fate has to offer.
7) 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen.
Page Count: 68
As a Man Thinketh" is a literary essay by James Allen, published in 1903. It was described by Allen as "... dealing with the power of thought, and particularly with the use and application of thought to happy and beautiful issues. Allen has tried to make the book simple, so that all can easily grasp and follow its teaching, and put into practice the methods which it advises. It shows how, in his own though to world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances. It was also described by Allen as "A book that will help you to help yourself",