Short books on the list

[Ursula]

Hunger by Knut Hamsun is also about 130 pages.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I just started A World of Love. My paperback copy has fewer than 150 pages.

[Maureen]

Six novels that I have come across on the list so far:

Youth by J.M. Coetzee
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

[Steve]

some of the best stories and shortest I have read are in no particular order

The Chess Story - Zweig
The Postman Always Rings Twice- Cain
They Shoot Horses Dont They - McCoy
The Thirty Nine Steps - Buchan

Guaranteed

[James]

Candiss wrote: "I was looking for a list of page counts on Google, and I happened across a post on the blog for a "1001 Books Challenge" (http://books1001.livejournal.com) in which the blogger lists page counts an..."


Thanks for this. I've munged this into a google spreadsheet I already had: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Sean]

One of my most recently finished was Caim. It was rather short. The next book on the group read, The Reader, is pretty short as well.

[Emrys]

Book that have less than 200 pages (at least according to the editions I have shelved), from shortest to longest:

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The New World by Heruy Wolde Selassie
Thomas Of Reading by Thomas Deloney
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
The Breast by Philip Roth
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
The Newton Letter (Revolutions Trilogy, #3) by John Banville
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) by John Buchan
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Strait is the Gate by André Gide
Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist
The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck
Monica by Saunders Lewis
Summer by Edith Wharton
How it is by Samuel Beckett
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Passing by Nella Larsen
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Kaas by Willem Elsschot
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami
Couples, Passersby by Botho Strauß
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
On the Heights of Despair by Emil M. Cioran
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon
Candide by Voltaire
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Rashomon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Cane by Jean Toomer
Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela
The Immoralist by André Gide
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Matigari by wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The River Between by wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ
The Parable Of The Blind by Gert Hofmann
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Chocky by John Wyndham
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Retreat Without Song by Shahan Shahnour
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Les choses by Georges Perec
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
Nadja by André Breton
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Harvesters by Cesare Pavese
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
The Witness by Juan José Saer
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
Henry von Ofterdingen by Novalis
Inland by Gerald Murnane
The Vice Consul by Marguerite Duras
August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Claudine's House by Colette
Vathek by William Beckford
Manillaköysi by Veijo Meri
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Thaïs by Anatole France
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland by Friedrich Hölderlin
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Party Going by Henry Green
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
The First Garden by Anne Hébert
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
La Désobéissance by Alberto Moravia
Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi
Caim by José Saramago
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
Arcanum 17: With Apertures by André Breton
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Un homme qui dort by Georges Perec
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
Vanishing Point by David Markson
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Sula by Toni Morrison
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1) by Nancy Mitford
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Amongst Women by John McGahern
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Quartet by Jean Rhys
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
The Case Worker by George Konrád
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Blind Man with a Pistol (Harlem Cycle, #8) by Chester Himes
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
On Love by Alain de Botton
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Sea by John Banville
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Hemsöborna by August Strindberg
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The End of the Road by John Barth
Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
A House in the Uplands by Erskine Caldwell
Story of O by Pauline Réage

[Emrys]

The same books as above, but roughly ranked by ((Average rating rank * Number of ratings rank)*(Shortness rank))

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Pastoralia by George Saunders
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
On Love by Alain de Botton
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
On the Heights of Despair by Emil M. Cioran
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Candide by Voltaire
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Caim by José Saramago
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Passing by Nella Larsen
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1) by Nancy Mitford
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Cane by Jean Toomer
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
Chocky by John Wyndham
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
Un homme qui dort by Georges Perec
Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb
A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
Rashomon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Amongst Women by John McGahern
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
Silas Marner by George Eliot
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) by John Buchan
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
Summer by Edith Wharton
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland by Friedrich Hölderlin
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
How it is by Samuel Beckett
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Les choses by Georges Perec
Queer by William S. Burroughs
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
The River Between by wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Witness by Juan José Saer
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
The Immoralist by André Gide
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The End of the Road by John Barth
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
Nadja by André Breton
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
The Sea by John Banville
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Strait is the Gate by André Gide
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Kaas by Willem Elsschot
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
Quartet by Jean Rhys
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous
Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
Henry von Ofterdingen by Novalis
Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
Thaïs by Anatole France
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
Matigari by wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
The Case Worker by George Konrád
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Retreat Without Song by Shahan Shahnour
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
Claudine's House by Colette
Blind Man with a Pistol (Harlem Cycle, #8) by Chester Himes
The Newton Letter (Revolutions Trilogy, #3) by John Banville
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
The Vice Consul by Marguerite Duras
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff
Story of O by Pauline Réage
De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden
Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
Harvesters by Cesare Pavese
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami
Party Going by Henry Green
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Vathek by William Beckford
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
Hemsöborna by August Strindberg
L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille
The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
The Breast by Philip Roth
Arcanum 17: With Apertures by André Breton
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
The Parable Of The Blind by Gert Hofmann
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
The First Garden by Anne Hébert
La Désobéissance by Alberto Moravia
In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon
Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron
The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck
Manillaköysi by Veijo Meri
The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Monica by Saunders Lewis
The New World by Heruy Wolde Selassie
A House in the Uplands by Erskine Caldwell
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
Thomas Of Reading by Thomas Deloney
Couples, Passersby by Botho Strauß

[Ann A]

Emrys wrote: "The same books as above, but roughly ranked by ((Average rating rank * Number of ratings rank)*(Shortness rank))

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
A Christm..."

Nice. Thanks!

[Alice]

Emrys wrote: "The same books as above, but roughly ranked by ((Average rating rank * Number of ratings rank)*(Shortness rank))

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
A Christm..."

Thanks for that. I've been looking for short books to read in between the long ones. Already have a long one picked out for "summer reading", in other words, it'll take all summer to read.
Alice

[Jennifer W]

Wow, there's a lot more short books than I would have thought. Thanks for the list. With my reading time (and attention span) being so limited, maybe I can make some progress with some of these shorter books!

[Zanahoria]

Melissa wrote: "Heart of Darkness may be short, but I certainly wouldn't pick it up for a quick, easy read. You'll quickly regret it."

I'm with Melissa

[EJ]

Does anyone else feel like targeting the books on the list with the lowest number of pages is not a positive thing? While I completely understand wanting a list of "easy" reads to gravitate to after an incredible long novel like Copperfield. I feel personally I would be less likely to succeed at reading all 1001 books on the list if all that was left was 1,000 page monsters in the end! However, I suppose later in life I would have more time and patience and reading comprehension. Which would enable me to get through such long stories. Just a thought....

[EJ]

That is a good way to think about it. Maybe pick the longest followed by the shortest and so forth? gives us hope and keeps the desire to finish our goal of 1001 books!

[Emily]

EJ I was thinking the same as you! As there are fewer books over 1000 pages, my plan is to try one long book every so often followed by some shorter books to breathe. Then I thought the end will be so much easier to finish off all the shorter ones :)

[Alice]

I read "epics" (more than 1,000 pages) at night. A little bit each night, before you know it, you're done. The other books I read during the day.

If I want a quick read, I look at the "shorts" list, otherwise, I just pick a book. Not all books I read are on the list. Diversification helps!

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I honestly don't think it's meaningful to look a doorstops as more important to move. I can read a 700 page book in a weekend if I love it, and a 200 page book can take a week to read if I hate it. From a finishing standpoint (and I'm not always so serious about finishing; like Alice I have other things to read), there are over 600 books under 300 pages on the list, so if you knocked those out you'd have about half the list done, and the remainder wouldn't necessarily be harder, just a little longer. (Maybe I'm just bitter because I've choked down some really awful tiny 1001 books recently.)

[Ellinor]

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "I honestly don't think it's meaningful to look a doorstops as more important to move. I can read a 700 page book in a weekend if I love it, and a 200 page book can take a week to read if I hate it...."

I completely agree with you, Amy. Right now I tend to read shorter books from the list. I have two small kids and not much time to read. I don't want to be stuck with one book for weeks and not to be able to read other books. Like you I read other books too and I might also be a bit bitter because I recently read some quite slow-going list books (both short and long ones).

Sometimes you just need to find the right book for the right moment. About 2-3 years ago I went through a phase during which no book seemed to fascinate me anymore, no matter the genre. I probably finished 5 books during a period of 6 months, something that never happened to me before and is absolutely unusual for me. But then I started reading The Secret History which is quite a long book. I read it within a few days and it brought my pleasure for reading back.

Length doesn't really matter as long as a book is well-written. I also remember reading one list book, The Parable Of The Blind, which is about 100 pages and it took me about a week to finish when I thought I could do it in one night. SO reading the short books isn't always the quickest way.

[JenniferAustin]

Melissa wrote: "Heart of Darkness may be short, but I certainly wouldn't pick it up for a quick, easy read. You'll quickly regret it."

For me, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a serious page-turner!

[Angie]

Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier - 224 pages.
Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 165 pages.

[Deborah]

I just came across a helpful book on this topic Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly

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