Shorter Reads
Books Under 350 Pages
- 1984 — George Orwell — ~330 pages
- A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking — ~250 pages
- A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess — ~220 pages
- The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God — George Bernard Shaw — ~80 pages
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain — ~275 pages
- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho — ~210 pages
- A Personal Matter — Kenzaburō Ōe — ~170 pages
- Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Y. Davis — ~130 pages
- The Art of War — Sun Tzu — ~100 pages
- The Awakening — Kate Chopin — ~200 pages
- The Blue Castle — L. M. Montgomery — ~220 pages
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote — ~180 pages
- The Call of the Wild — Jack London — ~170 pages
- Candide — Voltaire — ~130 pages
- The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger — ~235 pages
- Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons — ~250 pages
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy — ~110 pages
- Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton — ~110 pages
- Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury — ~250 pages
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley — ~280 pages
- Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin — ~170 pages
- Grant’s Betrayal: The Tragedy of the Modoc War — Philip Weeks — ~200 pages
- The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald — ~180 pages
- Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad — ~130 pages
- Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC: A History — Kim Prothro Williams— ~172 pages
- The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien — ~310 pages
- House Made of Dawn — N. Scott Momaday — ~210 pages
- If He Hollers Let Him Go — Chester Himes — ~200 pages
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life — Héctor García and Francesc Miralles — ~210 pages
- J’Accuse…! — Émile Zola — ~60 pages
- James — Percival Everett — ~320 pages
- Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne — ~250 pages
- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl — ~180 pages
- Miracle at St. Anna — James McBride — ~300 pages
- Nightwood — Djuna Barnes — ~180 pages
- Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky — ~150 pages
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder — ~130 pages
- O Pioneers! — Willa Cather — ~160 pages
- Paradise Lost — John Milton — ~300 pages
- Passing — Nella Larsen — ~120 pages
- Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov — ~200 pages
- Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy — ~270 pages
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark — ~150 pages
- Silas Marner — George Eliot — ~250 pages
- The Story of My Life — Helen Keller — ~240 pages
- The Stranger — Albert Camus — ~125 pages
- Taxi — Khaled Al Khamissi — ~190 pages
- Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston — ~220 pages
- Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe — ~210 pages
- The Time Machine — H. G. Wells — ~120 pages
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee — ~325 pages
- Train to Pakistan — Khushwant Singh — ~190 pages
- The Trial — Franz Kafka — ~250 pages
- Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead — Barbara Comyns — ~190 pages
- Why We Can’t Wait — Martin Luther King Jr. — ~180 pages
- Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys — ~175 pages
Everything Else
Books Over 350 Pages
- 1776 — David McCullough — ~400 pages
- Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works — Herman Pontzer — ~350+ pages
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain — ~370 pages
- Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow — ~830 pages
- Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy — ~850 pages
- A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn — ~750 pages
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens — ~500 pages
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X with Alex Haley — ~470 pages
- Becoming — Michelle Obama — ~450 pages
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin — Timothy Snyder — ~550 pages
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson — ~500 pages
- The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas — ~1,200 pages
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky — ~550 pages
- Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver — ~560 pages
- The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank — ~350+ pages
- Germinal — Émile Zola — ~600 pages
- Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell — ~1,000 pages
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride — ~400 pages
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family — Annette Gordon-Reed — ~800 pages
- In Cold Blood — Truman Capote — ~350+ pages
- In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust — ~4,000+ pages across seven volumes
- Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison — ~580 pages
- John Adams — David McCullough — ~750 pages
- Little Women — Louisa May Alcott — ~500 pages
- Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert — ~350+ pages depending on edition
- Moby-Dick — Herman Melville — ~650 pages
- Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination — Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf — ~400 pages
- Native Son — Richard Wright — ~500 pages
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez — ~420 pages
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent — Eduardo Galeano — ~360 pages
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 — David McCullough — ~700 pages
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen — ~400 pages
- The Purpose Driven Life — Rick Warren — ~370 pages
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari — ~450 pages
- The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir — ~800 pages
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard — ~600 pages
- The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu — ~1,100 pages
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin — ~900 pages
- These Truths: A History of the United States — Jill Lepore — ~900–1,000 pages
- Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945 — Ronald D. Eller — ~380 pages
- War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy — ~1,200 pages
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson — ~640 pages
- Washington: A Life — Ron Chernow — ~900 pages
- We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore — ~350+ pages
- Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë — ~400 pages