Less than 150 Pages

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

Updated May 27, 2026
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Great Granny Webster
Blackwood, Caroline.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub). This macabre, mordantly...
The authority of the Court and the peril of politics
Breyer, Stephen G.
Paper Book
A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court-how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it. A growing chorus of officials and...
The bookshop
Fitzgerald, Penelope.
Paper Book
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop -- the only bookshop -- in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to...
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...
The old man and the sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
A Scribner Classics Edition Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel--now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most...
The hour of the star
Lispector, Clarice.
Paper Book
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn...
Bluets
Nelson, Maggie
Paper Book
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A Guardian Book of the Year 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...
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel
Porter, Max
Paper Book
Soon to be adapted as the major motion picture THE THING WITH FEATHERS, starring Benedict Cumberbatch 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...

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