Reading List

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
• Baseball in April and Other Stories — Gary Soto — ~130 pages
• Black Empire — George S. Schuyler — ~260 pages
• The Blue Castle — L. M. Montgomery — ~220 pages
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood — Trevor Noah — ~300      pages
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote — ~180 pages
• The Call of the Wild — Jack London — ~170 pages
• Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons — ~250 pages
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America     — Richard Rothstein — ~340 pages
• Cool Machine (Harlem Trilogy #3) — Colson Whitehead — ~320 pages
• Crook Manifesto (Harlem Trilogy #2) — Colson Whitehead — ~320 pages
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy — ~110 pages
• Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC — J. D. Dickey — ~320      pages
• Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton — ~110 pages
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury — ~250 pages
• Finding Me — Viola Davis — ~300 pages
• A Fortunate Life — A. B. Facey — ~320 pages
• Frankenstein     — Mary Shelley — ~280 pages
• The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the      Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War — Jamie Holmes — ~320      pages
• The Galapagos Affair — John Treherne — ~250 pages
• Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin — ~170 pages
• Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration — California Council for the Humanities —      ~300 pages
• The Greatest Love Story Ever Told — Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman —      ~290 pages
• Greenlights     — Matthew McConaughey — ~300 pages
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald — ~180 pages
• Harlem Shuffle (Harlem Trilogy #1) — Colson Whitehead — ~320 pages
• Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad — ~130 pages
• Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC: A History — Kim Prothro Williams — ~172      pages
• The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben — ~290 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
• In My Father’s Name: A Family, a Town, a Murder — Mark Arax — ~240 pages
• J’Accuse…!     — Émile Zola — ~60 pages
• James     — Percival Everett — ~320 pages
• Jefferson on Race: A Reader — Thomas Jefferson — ~250 pages
• Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne — ~250 pages
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States — Sarah Vowell — ~290 pages
• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice — Cristina Rivera      Garza — ~320 pages
• Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl — ~180 pages
• Miracle at St. Anna — James McBride — ~300 pages
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue — Edgar Allan Poe — ~40 pages
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie — ~270 pages
• Nightwood     — Djuna Barnes — ~180 pages
• Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen — Linda M. Heywood — ~320 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
• The Ornament of the World — María Rosa Menocal — ~320 pages
• Paddle Your Own Canoe — Nick Offerman — ~340 pages
• Paradise Lost — John Milton — ~300 pages
• Passing     — Nella Larsen — ~120 pages
• Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian      Ancestors — Andrew Crowe — ~288 pages
• Pnin     — Vladimir Nabokov — ~200 pages
• Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy — ~270 pages
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark — ~150 pages
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness     — Morgan Housel — ~250 pages
• A Rage in Harlem — Chester Himes — ~160 pages
• Raising Ourselves: A Gwich’in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River — Velma      Wallis — ~220 pages
• Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays — Albert Camus — ~290 pages
• Silas Marner — George Eliot — ~250 pages
• Sleeping with the Dictionary — Harryette Mullen — ~100 pages
• Stand     — Cory Booker — ~240 pages
• The Story of My Life — Helen Keller — ~240 pages
• The Stranger — Albert Camus — ~125 pages
• The Street — Ann Petry — ~320 pages
• A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle — ~170 pages
• Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old — Mary Beard — ~160 pages
• Taxi     — Khaled Al Khamissi — ~190 pages
• Tell Me Everything — Minka Kelly — ~288 pages
• Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston — ~220 pages
• The Things We Never Say — Elizabeth Strout — ~224 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
• Trust Exercise — Susan Choi — ~270 pages
• Under the Glacier — Halldór Laxness — ~240 pages
• Vanishing Edge (National Parks Mystery #1) — Claire Kells — ~320 pages
• Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes — Bill Green      — ~320 pages
• We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and      Power — Caleb Gayle — ~272 pages
• West of the West — Mark Arax — ~340 pages
• Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service — edited by Michael      Lewis — ~280 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

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
• Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent — Dipo Faloyin — ~384      pages
• Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow — ~830 pages
• All Aunt Hagar’s Children — Edward P. Jones — ~400 pages
• An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian      Catastrophe, 1846–1873 — Benjamin Madley — ~700 pages
• An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln     — Lois Romano — ~400 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
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and      Resistance in Occupied France — Caroline Moorehead — ~384 pages
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X with Alex Haley — ~470 pages
• Becoming     — Michelle Obama — ~450 pages
• Beyond the Rice Fields — Naivo — ~368 pages
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin — Timothy Snyder — ~550 pages
• California     — Mark Arax — ~500 pages
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson — ~500 pages
• Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital — Chris      Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove — ~568 pages
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas — ~1,200 pages
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky — ~550 pages
• Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver — ~560 pages
• El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America — Carrie      Gibson — ~576 pages
• The Forest Lover — Susan Vreeland — ~400 pages
• The Foursome — Christina Baker Kline — ~560 pages
• Germinal     — Émile Zola — ~600 pages
• Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell — ~1,000 pages
• Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French Visionary Who      Designed Washington — Scott W. Berg — ~352 pages
• Grant’s Betrayal: Power, Corruption, and the Theft of the Black Hills — John      Reeves — ~400 pages
• The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris — David McCullough — ~576 pages
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride — ~400 pages
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family — Annette Gordon-Reed —      ~800 pages
• A History of Wales — John Davies — ~768 pages
• How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental      Frontier — Joe Studwell — ~448 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
• The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism — Ross King — ~400 pages
• The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire — Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman — ~600 pages
• Little Women — Louisa May Alcott — ~500 pages
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 — Lawrence Wright — ~480      pages
• Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela — ~650 pages
• Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert — ~350+ pages
• 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
• Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One      Charleston Church — Kevin Sack — ~480 pages
• The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins — ~560 pages
• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America — Kathleen DuVal — ~752 pages
• Native Son — Richard Wright — ~500 pages
• Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire     — Julian Sancton — ~384 pages
• One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez — ~420 pages
• On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker — A’Lelia      Bundles — ~400 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
• The Penguin History of New Zealand — Michael King — ~592 pages
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt — ~960 pages
• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future —      Sebastian Mallaby — ~500 pages
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen — ~400 pages
• The Purpose Driven Life — Rick Warren — ~370 pages
• Racism in America: A Reader — edited by Annette Gordon-Reed — ~400 pages
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari — ~450 pages
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland —      Patrick Radden Keefe — ~450 pages
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets — Svetlana Alexievich — ~500 pages
• The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir — ~800 pages
• Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot — Robert M. Utley —      ~400 pages
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard — ~600 pages
• State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America — edited by Matt Weiland and      Sean Wilsey — ~600 pages
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson — ~650 pages
• The Stimulated Mind: Future-Proof Your Brain from Dementia and Stay Sharp at Any Age — Tommy Wood — ~464 pages
• The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp — Leonie Swann — ~350+ 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
• Two in the Far North — Margaret E. Murie — ~400 pages
• Undaunted Courage — Stephen E. Ambrose — ~520 pages
• Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945 — Ronald D. Eller — ~380 pages
• The Walnut Mansion — Miljenko Jergović — ~450 pages
• War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy — ~1,200 pages
• Washington: A Life — Ron Chernow — ~900 pages
• We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore — ~400      pages
• What Kind of Paradise — Janelle Brown — ~368 pages
• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play — Nick Offerman — ~350+ pages
• Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media — Susan J.      Douglas — ~350+ pages
• Where the Girls Were — Kate Schatz — ~368 pages
• A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico     — Amy S. Greenberg — ~368 pages
• A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness — Michael Pollan — ~400+      pages
• Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë — ~400 pages
• The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos — Carlos      Barragán — ~350+ pages