Okay fellow book lovers. I need your help. I need to read 16
books before the end of the year. I'm SEVEN books behind schedule!! How did that
even happen? Okay, so I hit several reading slumps this year, that's how it
happened. It's been a weird year.
What are some of your favorite quick reads? Novellas?
Graphic novels? Tell me all about them! Help me reach my goal of 100 books this year!
I'm in the same boat! I just picked up Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. It is a very short read and perfect for the season!
ReplyDeleteI recommend the Mercedes Thompson graphic novel series by Patricia Briggs Rat Queens Volumes 1-3 by Kurtis Wiebe, Saga Volumes 1-6 by Brian K. Vaughn, Revival Volumes 1-7 and basically any and all of Debbie Macomber's Christmas novels.
ReplyDeleteIts so funny that when your post went up in my blog feed I was wondering why I need help with my good reads challenge. I didn't read for a got 4 months and just caught up from being 9 books behind my goal of 100 a week or so ago. How funny that I was in the same boat as you and we have the same name. Hope you reach your goal!
Some good short books: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi (novel), Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman (kids' book), for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (poetry/play), Citizen by Claudia Rankine (prose poetry), The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (classic kids' book), From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (classic kids' book), Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (classic lit), The Miracle Worker by William Gibson (play), The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (classic nonfiction), Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (classic lit), The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin (middle grade book), The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (historical fiction), and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (philosophy). Graphic novels: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Anything by Kasie West. Her books are super cute and really fast to read.
ReplyDeleteAnything by Agatha Christie would probably be a quick read! And Then There Were None in particular goes by pretty fast. :) Also: Gilded Ashes by Rosamund Hodge is a Cinderella retelling novella (111 pages), The Vegetarian by Han Kang (192 pages) was a super quick read, any of the Sandman graphic novels, Who Could That Be at this Hour? by Lemony Snicket, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (if you'd like a classic) by Leo Tolstoy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, and I'm sure many more that I can't think of! Good luck! :)
ReplyDeleteThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo. It's such a cute book and a super quick read! I read it last year, and it's one of my favorites! ��
ReplyDeletemy favorite quick read are fantastic beast and where to find them original screenplay, nisekoi manga, one punch man manga, yotsuba manga, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo :D
ReplyDeletegood luck :D hope you can complete your goodreads challenge :D
ReplyDeleteI just read McCormick's "The Plot to Kill Hitler." Very short, but packed with great information about WWII and especially the build up before the war breaks out. If you are into that sort of thing....
ReplyDeleteI read The Woman in Cabin 10 in less than a day - a fun thriller that moved very quickly. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE novellas and short stories! So let's get started.
ReplyDeleteRenee Ahdieh has 2 novellas (I think one was about 20 pages) for her Wrath and the Dawn series.
If you like the Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Paige, there are a bunch of novellas and at least 2 of them could be read before the first book. Her Stealing Snow series has 2 novellas.
I don't know if you saw, but there are 3 new Harry Potter "short stories" that came out in Sept. You can only get them as an ebook, but they were awesome!
If you're a Rosamund Hodge fan, she's got Gilded Ashes out and that takes place in the Cruel Beauty universe. Then if you go to her Goodreads page, she writes tons of short stories and they all have the links to the stories.
Jennifer Armentrout also has a few shorts out there for almost all of her series.
Good luck with your challenge!
Mel @ Reviews In A Pinch
Contemporary Romance is what my quick reads are. Don't forget about novellas, and short stories. :)
ReplyDeleteMy old standby is to hit the children's/MG graphic novel section at the library. They usually have super short classics and novels adaptations. Good luck! :)
ReplyDeleteThe Lifted Veil by George Eliot is a great novella with gothic elements. I read a lot of graphic novels this year and really liked Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, and all of Lucy Knisleys work (especially her memoir about her wedding, Something New). Good luck!
ReplyDeleteNovels in verse go quickly too. Witness, The Crossover, My Seneca Village, All The Broken Pieces, Locomotion, Love that Dog, Stop Pretending. Matt Phelan's Snow White is an awesome and super fast graphic novel, and Don Brown and Brian K. Vaughan are always good bets for graphic novels too.
ReplyDeletegraphic novels : Paper Girls, Giant Days, The LumberJanes, Rat Queens, Chew.
ReplyDeleteShort Reads: Dash and Lily 1 & 2, Nick and Nora's infinite Playlist, Anna and the French Kiss,
Some of the quickest novels for me this year were: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth, I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh and Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. I'm not a huge YA fan, but last year I read (and enjoyed) Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon in a day. Good luck! :)
ReplyDeleteSo many good graphic novelssss: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, Lumberjanes is HILARIOUS and written by a bunch of stuff. Also Coraline by Neil Gaiman is really fast but really creepy, as is Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann. Also another novella is Every Heart A Doorway. Good luck! You can do it!!
ReplyDeleteHave you read any of Gail Carriger's shorter works? She writes the most hilarious (and sometimes risque') steampunk. She has two novellas and several short stories out!
ReplyDeleteAgatha Christie has a lot of great short stories :D As for graphic novels I can highly recommend Monstress, Rat Queens and Saga. Also, have you read the three short books about Hogwarts that were released earlier this year?
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge Marvel fan so their comics are my go-to reads to catch up with my goal.It was also the reason why I added more books to my challenge instead of my original goal of 50 books haha! Also contemporary novels like Kasie West's books! They're light and quick to read!
ReplyDeleteI am in the same dilemma. I just finished Vol. 1 of Ms. Marvel, and thought it was great, so I think I will read the next four, which will definitely help meet my GR challenge this year! I wasn't into comic books and graphic novels as a kid, but I really like them now. And they are definitely quick reads!
ReplyDeleteAny Dear America books, any book by Shannon Hale, Hunter Brown, the Door Within trilogy, the London Confidential series, the Summerhill Secrets series, Unenchanted, any Percy Jackson book, the Mission League series, Sky Jumpers, Orphan's Song, Not By Sight, Goddess Tithe, and Draven's Light
ReplyDeleteHyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (graphic), Level Up by Cathy Yardley (novella romance about video game designers), and I agree with Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon.
ReplyDeleteHere are the fourteen I'm going to try to get to by the end of the year!
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Birdy & TheYellow Room - Jess Vallance (Both books are under 300 pages so are super short and quick to read)
ReplyDeleteUsername: Evie - Joe Sugg (A quick graphic novel)
The Grown Up - Gillian Flynn (Under 200 pages and gripping)
Hope this helps :)
I really enjoyed the Reckoners series (Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity) by Brandon Sanderson. They're quirky and fun, they're easy to read without being mindlessly simple, there's some romance, and the ending was perfect.
ReplyDeleteHave you read Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric stories? There are three novellas, so zam, that's a big chunk of your backlog.
ReplyDeleteOr look at the Cybils shortlists for YA & middle school graphic novels.
There's a new Aurora Teagarden book out by Charlaine Harris, probably not a good starting point but if you happened to read the others it's a quick read.
There's a delightful mystery series by Carola Dunn featuring a young aristocrat making her own way in Britain after World War I (her brother and fiance die in the war, and she doesn't want to stay with the distant cousin who inherited her family home). Daisy Dalrymples are undemanding mysteries with a fun protagonist and lots of period details. I gobbled up about three of them in a week; it's not really necessary to read them in order although time does pass.
Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI would suggest The Grownup by Gillian Flynn, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.