Has anyone noticed that books seem to be getting shorter and shorter these days?
 
We don’t have any empirical evidence to back this up, but it sure feels that way—and we sort through a lot of books here at Goodreads.

Maybe it’s the price of paper, or more efficient page design, or smaller fonts. Possibly it’s our online-addled brains—a cultural concession to the 21st-century attention span.
 
In any case, we’ve taken the opportunity to implement yet another sorting strategy to our never-ending digital bookshelves. In the collection below, we’ve organized a selection of relatively recent books according to page count, across all genres, in both fiction and nonfiction. Sometimes you want a shorter book, for entirely practical or mood-related reasons.
 
As a bonus, we’ve included a category at the end for particularly long books, with page counts of 500 and up. Sometimes you want a longer book, for scheduling or doorstop reasons.

Plus, sorting like this leads to interesting juxtapositions. Where else are you going to find liberated sexbots next to deep-sea survival dramas? Celestial fantasy next to student loan heist thrillers? Oregon earthquakes next to Victorian psychos?
 
Click on the book cover images for more information about each title. Once you’ve found the proper page count, use the Want to Read button to add the book to your digital bookshelf.