11 short books for the Labor Day weekend as Erik Pedersen writes The Book Pages newsletter.

Fewer pages with deeper impact, these 8 short books deliver more emotion, tension, and meaning than entire seasons of your ...

The story takes place in 1922 on Long Island, where Nick, a Yale University graduate and war veteran, rents a summer house ...

Short books—like novellas, standalone short stories, and poetry collections—are finally getting their due. What took so long?

The esteemed author of Florida is back with her first collection since 2018.

Behind on your annual reading goal? Short books under 200 pages to read this month.

In their spareness, novellas and short novels — I’m counting any story longer than about 80 pages and any novel shorter than about 200 — reward a word-by-word reading.

Nightfall was one of Isaac Asimov’s first ever published sci-fi short stories, written when he was still in his early 20’s.

Lydia Millet's characters in Atavists interact and have little dramas of their own — the author's talent is on full display here. Not every story is strong, but they work well together.

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