Short Book Recommendations

Under 100 pages:

• The lottery by Shirley Jackson - 32pg
• Mr Salary by Sally Rooney - 44 pg
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke - 52 pg
• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt - 69pg
• Woolgathering by Patti Smith - 80 pg
• Simple passion by Annie Ernaux - 80 pg
• Dream Work by Mary Oliver - 90 pg
• The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg - 98pg
• Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen - 99 pg

Under 125 pages:

• Bluets by Maggie Nelson - 112 pgs
• A very easy death - Simone de Beauvoir - 112pgs
• Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaggy - 112pgs
• Small things like these by Claire Keegan - 118 pls
• In the cafe of youth by Patrick Modiano - 118 pls

Under 150 pages:

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - 128og
• Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors - 128 p
• Shy - by Max porter - 136p
• The lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante - 140p
• Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett - 148p
• Lie with me by Philippe besson - 149p

Under 175 pages:

• ✔ The stranger by Albert Camus - 159p
• The beauty of the husband by Anne Carson - 160p
• Self-help by Lorrie Moore - 163 p

Under 200 pages:

• An apprenticeship of the book of pleasures by Claire Lispector - 176
• Happiness, as such by Natalia Ginzburg - 176p
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 180p
• I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman - 188p
• The Days of abandonment by Elena Ferrante - 188 p
• Heartburn by Nora Ephron - 189p

Under 225 pages:

• Today a woman went mad in the supermarket by hilma waltzer - 208p
• Granny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger - 208p
• Im thinking of ending things by Iain Reid - 212p
• Too much and not the mood by Durga Chew-Bose - 221p
• Notes to Self by Emilie Pine - 224p

Under 250 pages:

• The Waves by Virginia Woolf - 228 p
• Hurricane Girl by March Dermansky - 240p
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 243 p
• On earth we’re briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - 250p

Under 275 pages:

• The woman destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir - 254 p
• Persuasion by Jane Austen - 256p
• Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin - 256p
• Berlin by Bea Seton - 256 p
• Thirst for Salt by Madeleine Lucas - 271p

Under 300 pages:

• Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagen - 288p
• Never Let me Go by Kazoo Ishiguro - 288p
• The wren, the wren by Anne Enright - 288p
• Strangers to ourselves: unsettled minds and the stories that make us by * Rachel Aviw - 288p
• You have to make your own fund around here by Frances Macken - 288p