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A Short(ish) Book for Every Day of the Year!

If you have absolutely nothing else to do and/or you read very fast, here's a way to spend a year! This is a list of three hundred and sixty-five short-ish books - novellas for the most part, but also some short novels, novels in verse, graphic novels, and kidlit to mix it up. How many of these miniature marvels have you read?
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The 39 Steps (John Buchan)
The 39 Steps
1
John Buchan
Acts of Desperation (Megan Nolan)
Acts of Desperation
2
Megan Nolan
Adele (Leila Slimani)
Adele
3
Leila Slimani
After (Morris Gleitzman)
After
4
Morris Gleitzman
After Dark (Haruki Murakami)
After Dark
5
Haruki Murakami
After Midnight (Irmgard Keun)
After Midnight
6
Irmgard Keun
Afterlives (Abdulrazak Gurnah)
Afterlives
7
Abdulrazak Gurnah
All Men Want to Know (Nina Bouraoui)
All Men Want to Know
8
Nina Bouraoui
All My Friends Are Superheroes (Andrew Kaufman)
All My Friends Are Superheroes
9
Andrew Kaufman
All Systems Red (Martha Wells)
All Systems Red
10
Martha Wells
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (William S. Burroughs)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
11
William S. Burroughs
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
12
George Orwell
Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid)
Annie John
13
Jamaica Kincaid
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer)
Annihilation
14
Jeff Vandermeer
Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
Another Brooklyn
15
Jacqueline Woodson
Assembly (Natasha Brown)
Assembly
16
Natasha Brown
At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft)
At the Mountains of Madness
17
H. P. Lovecraft
At Night All Blood Is Black (David Diop (Author), Anna Moschovakis (Translator))
At Night All Blood Is Black
18
David Diop (Author), Anna Moschovakis (Translator)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
19
Kate Chopin
The Baby Is Mine (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
The Baby Is Mine
20
Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Ballad of Black Tom (Victor Lavalle)
The Ballad of Black Tom
21
Victor Lavalle
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
22
Herman Melville
Beauty and Sadness (Yasunari Kawabata)
Beauty and Sadness
23
Yasunari Kawabata
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
24
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
25
Sylvia Plath
Beyond the Bounty (Tony Parsons)
Beyond the Bounty
26
Tony Parsons
Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti
27
Nnedi Okorafor
Birthday Girl (Haruki Murakami)
Birthday Girl
28
Haruki Murakami
The Black Flamingo (Dean Atta)
The Black Flamingo
29
Dean Atta
The Black Mountain (Kate Mosse)
The Black Mountain
30
Kate Mosse
The Black Tides of Heaven (Neon Yang)
The Black Tides of Heaven
31
Neon Yang
Blackout (Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone,)
Blackout
32
Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone,
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
33
Angela Carter
Bloody Valentine (James Patterson)
Bloody Valentine
34
James Patterson
Boys Don't Cry (Fíona Scarlett)
Boys Don't Cry
35
Fíona Scarlett
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
36
Truman Capote
Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)
Brown Girl Dreaming
37
Jacqueline Woodson
Bunny (Mona Awad)
Bunny
38
Mona Awad
Burnt Sugar (Avni Doshi)
Burnt Sugar
39
Avni Doshi
Call for the Dead (John Le Carré)
Call for the Dead
40
John Le Carré
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