Short Books

There are many remarkable books that don’t take too long to read. If in need of inspiration, here are some modern and older classic or popular books under 200 pages, available from the library print collections, that could be read in a day or two:

• A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf) 
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• Botchan (Sōseki Natsume) 
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) 
• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri) 
• Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) 
• The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Jack London) 
• The Epic of Gilgamesh (N. K. Sandars) 
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)  
• The Stranger (Albert Camus) 
• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) 
• Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) 

To find more books you may search OneSearch. Just limit your search to ‘books’ before you enter a few keywords. To find ebooks, limit book results to ‘Online Formats’ or search one of the library’s ebook databases such as Ebook Central. 

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