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- Six Short Books that Pack a Punch
Slim Books with Heft Recently I've been seeing "Ten Before the End" posts about the ten books readers As we enter into the busy holiday season, slim books can also suit fractured attention spans and schedules You might also like these other slim books. I'd love to hear about your favorite short reads! So Late in the Day. 02 Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth Haddon: 176 pages Seth Haddon's slim This slim science fiction novel packs a punch.
- Review of Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth Haddon
Seth Haddon's slim science fiction debut offers action and a risky space quest, revenge, and love, but This slim science fiction novel packs a punch.
- Review of Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales by Elizabeth Alexander
This slim work of nonfiction packs a punch; Alexander (also the author of the exquisite memoir The Light In this slim work of nonfiction (the audiobook is less than three hours long; the print version is 144
- Review of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious situation without promising concrete explanations. My friend Amy suggested that I read this one, and Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange
- Review of Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
In Wood's slim book, a practical young man is scratching out a life in a small seaside English town when This slim story (the book is 176 pages) is eerie and unforgettable.
- Review of Clear by Carys Davies
Davies's slim, luminous, heartbreaking novel sets a story of isolation and human connection against the Davies sets her slim, stark, beautiful, and heartrending story Clear against the backdrop of the Scottish This is a slim book that is beautifully balanced between the tension of John's secret, Ivar's misplaced
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition
romance with heavy emotional underpinnings, Say You'll Remember Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim Happy-Ever-After Playlist . 03 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite In Olivia Waite's slim
- Review of Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
In Olivia Waite's slim science-fiction mystery, Dorothy wakes up...in a body that's not her own.
- Review of 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
This slim book consists of the charming twenty-year correspondence between a hotheaded, opinionated New
- Review of Transcription by Ben Lerner
Lerner's slim novel offers three distinct sections.
- Review of The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite authors, but this slim, early book of hers didn't offer the The Luminous Web, published in 2000, is a slim (74-page) book, quite different from either of those titles
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/12/25 Edition
dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie, mysterious, slim Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.
- Review of Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix
This slim (122-page) novel builds from a real-life tragedy to a deep, disturbing, fascinating exploration
- Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship This is a slim book, but in The Woman in Me, Spears opens up and feels vulnerable, shares her perspectives
- Six Bossy Favorite Science Fiction Reads from the Past Year
In Olivia Waite's slim science-fiction mystery, Dorothy wakes up...in a body that's not her own. full review of Automatic Noodle. 03 Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth Haddon Seth Haddon's slim This slim science fiction novel packs a punch.
- Review of Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
The slim novel Blue Hour explores ambivalence about motherhood, unflinching details of the experience This slim novel (160 pages) explores the immediate, visceral experiences of trying to conceive a baby
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/26/26 Edition
and unlikely allies in small-town 1994 Ireland, The Coast Road; and I'm reading Vincent Delecroix's slim
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/21/26 Edition
Dragon Republic. 02 Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales by Elizabeth Alexander In this slim
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/23/26 Edition
This slim book consists of the charming twenty-year correspondence between a hotheaded, opinionated New
- Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining This is a slim book that's full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/2/25 Edition
in the Room , which addresses being overweight in America. 02 Clear by Carys Davies Davies sets her slim
- Review of How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
I received a prepublication copy of this slim, powerful, gorgeous book courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing
- Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
I loved that The Seven Year Slip was about the publishing world and also the restaurant world, and how Clementine doesn't believe in the time slip, but when she's faced with its reality, she seems to somehow For example, she slips back in time, back to the present, then a few weeks later to the past again, and
- Review of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
This slim book tells the story of a small crew of astronauts in the twenty-second century who are searching
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Foster, Claire Keegan's slim Irish novel about a young girl sent 01 Foster by Claire Keegan In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/23 Edition
Books I'm Reading Now To start off the year, I'm listening to Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan's slim Small Things Like These is a slim novel about a small Irish town in the weeks leading up to Christmas
- Review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become
- Review of The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine #1) by Shannon Bowring
This slim, debut novel about a small-town community in northern Maine introduces various faulted, interconnected
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition
Katie can't swim, but surely there will be precautions taken, life vests forthcoming, and she can probably Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become
- Review of The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown
she unearthed the fabled writings detailing the prophecies of a 16th-century nun, Elizabeth Barton, a slim
- Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Keegan's slim book may seem cozy and quiet at first, but she beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside Keegan's Small Things Like These is a slim novel about a small Irish town in the weeks leading up to
- Review of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
the middle of the story, during the slog through various avenues of hell, and the worldbuilding felt slim
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
The slim book traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand
- Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
In the brilliant, Irish-born Claire Keegan's newest slim story collection, she explores gender dynamics
- Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently
- Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In the brilliant, Irish-born Claire Keegan's newest slim story collection, she explores gender dynamics Click here for my full review of So Late in the Day. 04 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Spears's slim This is a slim book, but in The Woman in Me, Spears opens up and feels vulnerable, shares her perspectives
- Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
Pam Zhang's slim dystopian novel Land of Milk and Honey, an unnamed chef in a polluted, dying city flees
- Six Bossy Favorite Literary Fiction Reads from the Past Year
for my full review of What We Can Know. 02 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim stories I've Bossily reviewed, please check out the titles here. 03 Clear by Carys Davies Davies's slim
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition
Pam Zhang's slim dystopian novel Land of Milk and Honey, a chef in a polluted, dying city flees to a
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition
Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers; and I'm reading the slim, powerful nonfiction She slips potential evidence into her pocket, gathers and questions those she thinks are suspects, and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
I'm listening to this as an audiobook. 03 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears In her slim memoir The Woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition
This slim novel is packing a punch. 03 A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell #5) by Deanna Raybourn
- Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
In Alyssa Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago
- Review of Vigil by George Saunders
responsibility, and forgiveness, yet Saunders doesn't dig into them, which left me feeling unsatisfied with this slim also the author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo as well as Tenth of December , A Swim
- Review of Yearbook by Seth Rogen
But in this slim book (I listened to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
01 Nocturne by Alyssa Wees In Alyssa Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I fell hard for this slam dunk of a premise: A novel about a female pirate based on the life of Grace For my full review, please check out this link. 04 Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix This slim (122-page
- Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
In Margo Orlando Littell's slim novel The Distance from Four Points, Robin Besher's husband has died,
- Review of One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
One Italian Summer was a slim book and a sweet love letter to Italy.













































