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44 Short New Books to Crush Your Reading Challenge

"The weather's getting cooler—here in the northern hemisphere, anyway—and that means time is running out for participants in this year's Goodreads Reading Challenge. If you're a little behind in your pledge, don't fret. We've been thinking ahead.

Gathered below are 44 carefully curated books with three critical elements in common. These are new books, these are good books…and these are short books. Thankfully, the math isn't that complicated: Absent any oscillations in the time-space continuum, you can read more short books in a given amount of time, thereby boosting your performance in the reading challenge.

Each title listed here was published in the 2021 calendar year and has fewer than 200 pages, in the first batch, or 300 pages in the second. The collection lines up all the usual genre suspects, so you're sure to find something that fits your current mood and schedule."
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Infinite Country (Patricia Engel)
Infinite Country (Patricia Engel)
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Becky Chambers)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Becky Chambers)
3
Whereabouts (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Whereabouts (Jhumpa Lahiri)
4
Remote Control (Nnedi Okorafor)
Remote Control (Nnedi Okorafor)
5
The Soul of a Woman (Isabel Allende)
The Soul of a Woman (Isabel Allende)
6
Open Water (Caleb Azumah Nelson)
Open Water (Caleb Azumah Nelson)
7
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Eric Larocca)
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Eric Larocca)
8
Second Place (Rachel Cusk)
Second Place (Rachel Cusk)
9
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Joan Didion)
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Joan Didion)
10
A Spindle Splintered (Alix E. Harrow)
A Spindle Splintered (Alix E. Harrow)
11
Fireheart Tiger (Aliette De Bodard)
Fireheart Tiger (Aliette De Bodard)
12
Nothing but Blackened Teeth (Cassandra Khaw)
Nothing but Blackened Teeth (Cassandra Khaw)
13
Heaven (Mieko Kawakami)
Heaven (Mieko Kawakami)
14
Assembly (Natasha Brown)
Assembly (Natasha Brown)
15
Mona (Pola Oloixarac)
Mona (Pola Oloixarac)
16
The Past Is Red (Catherynne M. Valente)
The Past Is Red (Catherynne M. Valente)
17
The Wife Upstairs (Rachel Hawkins)
The Wife Upstairs (Rachel Hawkins)
18
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (Michelle Zauner)
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (Michelle Zauner)
19
Honey Girl (Morgan Rogers)
Honey Girl (Morgan Rogers)
20
Of Women and Salt (Gabriela Garcia)
Of Women and Salt (Gabriela Garcia)
21
Outlawed (Anna North)
Outlawed (Anna North)
22
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Nghi Vo)
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Nghi Vo)
23
Somebody's Daughter (Ashley C. Ford)
Somebody's Daughter (Ashley C. Ford)
24
Dial a for Aunties (Jesse Q. Sutanto)
Dial a for Aunties (Jesse Q. Sutanto)
25
We Are the Brennans (Tracey Lange)
We Are the Brennans (Tracey Lange)
26
Later (Stephen King)
Later (Stephen King)
27
The Therapist (B.A. Paris)
The Therapist (B.A. Paris)
28
The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey)
The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey)
29
Broken (Jenny Lawson)
Broken (Jenny Lawson)
30
The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green)
The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green)
31
The Good Lie (A. R. Torre)
The Good Lie (A. R. Torre)
32
Yellow Wife (Sadeqa Johnson)
Yellow Wife (Sadeqa Johnson)
33
Nightbitch (Rachel Yoder)
Nightbitch (Rachel Yoder)
34
Northern Spy (Flynn Berry)
Northern Spy (Flynn Berry)
35
The Removed (Brandon Hobson)
The Removed (Brandon Hobson)
36
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Cherie Jones)
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Cherie Jones)
37
The Bomber Mafia (Malcolm Gladwell)
The Bomber Mafia (Malcolm Gladwell)
38
We Run the Tides (Vendela Vida)
We Run the Tides (Vendela Vida)
39
Certain Dark Things (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Certain Dark Things (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
40
Remember (Lisa Genova)
Remember (Lisa Genova)
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