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."