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Here are some short novels for a quick weekend read – to help you fill those squares in Winter Reading Bingo!
Short Classics:
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck – 186 pages, award-winner, banned or challenged
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 172 pages, banned or challenged
The great divorce by C.S. Lewis – 125 pages
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston – 219 pages, banned or challenged, written by a woman, BIPOC author
Even Shorter: Classic Novellas
A Christmas carol : in prose being a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens – 85 pages
The little prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry – 96 pages
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – 97 pages
Animal farm by George Orwell – 113 pages, banned or challenged
Recent short fiction:
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy – 189 pages, 2022
Of women and salt by Gabriela Garcia – 207 pages, 2021, written by a woman, BIPOC author, award-winner
The cat who saved books by Sosuke Natsukawa – 198 pages, 2021, set in another country
The silence by Don DeLillo – 117 pages, 2021
How to Play Winter Reading Bingo