Less than 150 Pages

Dip your toe into something short and sweet! Try these books of 150 pages or less - perfect for a quick summer read. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 7, 2026
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Less than 150 Pages

Dip your toe into something short and sweet! Try these books of 150 pages or less - perfect for a quick summer read. Plant a seed, read!

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The death of the banker : the decline and fall of the great financial dynasties and the triumph of the small investor
Chernow, Ron.
Audiobook
With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them...
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Ellis, Warren
Ebook
A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think...
The bookshop
Fitzgerald, Penelope.
Ebook
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize and a classic of British literary fiction. With an Introduction by...
A shining
Fosse, Jon
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to...
84, Charing Cross Road
Hanff, Helene.
Paper Book
We have always lived in the castle
Jackson, Shirley
Ebook
Who moved my cheese? : an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life
Johnson, Spencer.
Paper Book
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your...
Foster
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US ...
Small things like these
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** **NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A New York Times Bestseller * Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize * Winner of the Orwell Prize for...
Lemon
Kwŏn, Yŏ-sŏn
Paper Book
New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice  Philadelphia Inquirer: Best Book of the Month   World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year   CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the Year Ms. Magazine:...
The Stepford wives
Levin, Ira.
The missing year of Juan Salvatierra
Mairal, Pedro
Ebook
An artist's sons hunt for their mysterious inheritance: "A pleasure to read . . . One of the most significant Argentine writers working today" (David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes).   At age nine, Juan...
Recitatif : a story
Morrison, Toni
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. With an introduction by Zadie Smith "A puzzle of a story, then--a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an...
Bluets
Nelson, Maggie
Ebook
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has...
Blue horses : poems
Oliver, Mary
Paper Book
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and...
A long walk to water : a novel
Park, Linda Sue.
Paper Book
Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others. A Long Walk...
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel
Porter, Max
Audiobook
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar-a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of...
Bad medicine
Twin, Christopher
Paper Book
A group of Cree teens gather around a fire to share stories of spirits and shapeshifters in this chilling debut graphic novel. After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. Chad begins by telling the group about an...
The empress of salt and fortune
Vo, Nghi
Audiobook
Black girl you are Atlas
Watson, Renée
Paper Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renee Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renee Watson writes about her experience...
All systems red
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
Night
Wiesel, Elie
Paper Book
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent...
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