This year’s
Goodreads Reading Challenge is going strong, with more than 7 million (!) participants globally and 300 million (!) books pledged. Autumn is always a good time to check in on your progress, before the stretch run of the holidays. If you find you’re a few books off your ideal pace, well, we have a
cunning plan.…
We’ve assembled here several dozen Very Short Books for your perusal, the reading of which can do wonders for your overall progress. All the selections here clock in at fewer than 200 pages, and we’ve made sure to include options from every genre.
To switch things up a bit this year, we’ve dug deep into the archives and selected some famous and popular backlist titles. Now’s your chance to consume that nutritional literature you’ve been meaning to get to since high school—like
Hemingway,
Steinbeck, and
Morrison.
There really are some incredible books on this list, especially in the realm of speculative fiction. We don’t play favorites, of course.
Except sometimes we do. Click on the cover images for more details, and you can sort out your sequencing via your
Want to Read shelf.