5 Books Under 200 Pages to Kick a Reading Slump
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” —Emma Thompson
At some point in all of our lives, we find ourselves too distracted by outside factors to read. Here are some quick reads to help get you out of a slump and back into reading!
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata: With 163 pages, this is a quick read full of sweet and dark humor while depicting the life of Keiko, a woman who feels more comfortable socializing at work in the convenience store than she does in her daily life.
River of Teeth by Sarah Galley: In Kevin Hearn’s New York Times review, he described this 178-page book as “Man-eating hippo mayhem” and that is exactly what this is. A quick dystopian read of a world where the US government imported hippos into the Louisiana bayou and the chaos that ensued.
Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers: 160 pages depicting a world where people have what they want, following a monk and a robot as they ask the question “What do people need?”
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain: The shortest book on the list coming in at 116 pages, this campy noir about karma is sure to be a fast read with a pitch perfect ending.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: This one is a short horror story of 146 pages, with an unreliable narrator, this is a ghost story without ghosts with an eerie relationship between childishness and horror.
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ABOUT THE BOOKSELLER:
Anna was born and raised in Boston, MA. Her favorite genre to read is fantasy romance. She spent a summer studying dolphin communication in the Bahamas.