Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is:
Read In One Sitting Theme: ten of the shortest books I’ve read, top ten books I read in one sitting, ten books to read when you are short on time, top ten books that will make you read the whole day away, etc.
Here are a bunch of great read, all under 200 pages, that I think are excellent ways to sneak in a quick read!
1) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. 97 pages. An amazing sci-fi adventure with a remarkable African woman as its main character. (Also, the sequel — Binti: Home — is also a short and sweet 176 pages!)
2) Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (179 pages): Simply beautiful. (review)
3) Isis by Douglas Clegg (113 pages): A wonderful, spooky little ghost story.
4) The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (120 pages): A quirky little novel which imagines Queen Elizabeth suddenly becoming an avid fiction reader.
5) Blockade Billy by Stephen King (112 pages): My edition includes two separate stories, both memorable and worth reading. (review)
6) The Travelling Bag and other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill (160 pages): A collection of four ghost stories in a pint-sized hardcover edition, easy to read and certain to chill.
7) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (160 pages): Without meaning to, I seem to have picked some truly creepy books for this list. This book is a gothic horror delight — and I think it’s even better as an audiobook.
8) Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (163 pages): A quick, funny, quirky look at the ups and down of Carrie Fisher’s life.
9) The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan (211 pages): Okay, slightly over 200 pages, but it’s such a quick read, and so powerful, that it just must be on this list! (review)
10) What’s a TTT list without an Outlander mention? Yes, the Outlander books are HUGE — but the novellas that fit into and alongside the series are not. For quick, wonderful reads sure to delight Outlander fans, check out any of these:
What are your favorite short and quick reads?
Whatever your spin on this week’s topic, please share your link so I can check out your list!
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
I´m definitely adding Our Souls at Night, The Travelling Bag and We Have always Lived in The Castle to my TBR. They sounds amazing and I love me my supernatural and unique reads! Loved your top 10 🙂
Thank you!
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is such a great story, The Bookish God. I hope you enjoy it a lot.
I hadn’t heard of Binti or Binti: Home, but they sure do intrigue me. I’ve added them to my to-read list. Thanks for the recommendation, Lisa.
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Binti is so unusual — I hope you give it a try!
We Have Always Lived at the Castle is an excellent audiobook!
I think that was the first audiobook that made me realize that the audio experience was more than just listening to someone read a book — it really took the experience to a whole new level.
I listened to the audio version of Blockade Billy and enjoyed it a lot! Nice pick!!
Here’s a link to my TTT post: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2017/03/top-ten-tuesday-list-of-books-to-read.html
Ah, I bet the audio version of Blockade Billy must be great! I’ll have to give it a try when I’m in the mood for a reread.
Great list, Lisa! One of these days I’m going to get to the Outlander books… We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a brilliant little book, and I can’t believe I didn’t think to put Binti on my list this week. The Uncommon Reader sounds great and I’ll have to check out The Travelling Bag this Halloween. =)
I love finding good “little” books – there’s something so satisfying about reading a whole book in one sitting!
I really want to read Our Souls at Night; I remember picking it up once at the bookstore and yeah, I can imagine devouring it in one sitting xD Great list!
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Thanks! I think you’d really love Our Souls at Night.
Our souls was fabulous as was the Uncommon Reader–both made my list as well.
Great post! I’ve had The Lover’s Dictionary on my shelf for a while now, reminded me to pick it up. 🙂
It’s such a different and lovely little book! I hope you enjoy it.
Hi! The Uncommon Reader looks great. Must add it to my TBR 🙂
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Leslie
The Uncommon Reader is really fun and quirky! I hope you check it out. 🙂
Great list! I really need to check out some of these, especially the Outlander stories (A Plague of Zombies is the one catching my eye at the moment). It would be a new experience for me to read an entire book in one go 😀
I used to love Susan Hill, so will probably check out The Travelling Bag.
I feel as if I’ve read Blockade Billy, maybe as part of another story collection, and I’m trying to remember which one…
Have you read the entire Outlander series? If not, there are a couple of these to stay away from… A Plague of Zombies fits chronologically with Voyager. It’s a good story, starring Lord John.
I’ve only read the first book so far, and seen the second series of the TV show. Beyond that I’ve managed to avoid spoilers so perhaps I’d better be careful about the reading order of these stories 🙂
In that case, I’d say read Virgins (it’s a prequel about young Jamie and Ian), but avoid the rest!
Oh man, how did I forget The Lover’s Dictionary? I just re-read it this year too. lol I need to add more of Carrie Fisher’s books to my TBR… I loved The Princess Diarist and Wishful Drinking sounds like a good one too.
I read Wishful Drinking right after she died, and I still want to read Shockaholic too.