Short books can help. Jules Rivera, marketing coordinator at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, said that, “People read for all sorts of reasons, but above all they read to feel accomplished in ...

While Stephen King has written plenty of grand, sprawling epics, his short fiction was also packed with some extraordinary and brief books.

Writer set out to tell ‘the whole story of China in a super readable way for normal people’, and her 250-page book The Shortest History of China does so by focusing on individual stories.