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The short novels of John Steinbeck.

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

ByJohn Steinbeck

1954 • 17 Readers • 568 pages • 4.7

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

ByFrançoise Sagan

1954 • 26 Readers • 240 pages • 3.5

Second Place

ByRachel Cusk

2021 • 113 Readers • 186 pages • 3.9

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 3,645 Readers • 227 pages • 3.9

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

ByNicholas Kilmer(Translator),Dante Alighieri

1320 • 501 Readers • 241 pages • 4

Trust

ByHernan Diaz

2022 • 433 Readers • 416 pages • 3.8

Brave New World

Brave New World

ByAldous Huxley

1930 • 3,009 Readers • 332 pages • 3.9

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

ByMargaret Atwood

1985 • 2,843 Readers • 324 pages • 4.1

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 5,741 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

The Rich People Have Gone Away

The Rich People Have Gone Away

ByRegina Porter

2024 • 7 Readers • 4

A Thousand Times Before

A Thousand Times Before

ByAsha Thanki

2024 • 1 Reader • 369 pages

The Colossus of New York

The Colossus of New York

ByColson Whitehead

2003 • 13 Readers • 178 pages • 4

Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

ByJay McInerney

1984 • 86 Readers • 182 pages • 3.9

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Strange Weather in Tokyo

ByHiromi Kawakami,Allison Markin Powell(Translator)

2001 • 189 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

Cooperative Lives

Cooperative Lives

ByPatrick Finegan

2019 • 2 Readers

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A Life Full of Quarks

A Life Full of Quarks

ByC.W. Johnson

2024

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Cul-de-Sac

ByLiz Crowe

2024

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Beneath the Wild Fig Tree

Beneath the Wild Fig Tree

ByFiona Preston

The Underachiever

The Underachiever

ByPablo Saborío

2024 • 1 Reader

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Goddess of the Flowers

Goddess of the Flowers: One Girl's Journey

ByStefanie Auerbach Stolinsky

The Truth Now

ByAnthony Caplan

2021 • 1 Reader

Die Arbeiter: Roman

Die Arbeiter: Roman

ByMartin Becker

2024 • 1 Reader • 228 pages

Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir

Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir

ByShoji Morimoto,Angus Turvill(Translator),+1 more

2023 • 35 Readers • 156 pages • 3.2

Frau Yeoms kleiner Laden der großen Hoffnungen

#1 of 1 in 불편한 편의점

Frau Yeoms kleiner Laden der großen Hoffnungen

ByKim Ho-yeon

2021 • 1 Reader • 307 pages

Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead

ByBarbara Kingsolver

2022 • 921 Readers • 560 pages • 4.4

Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies

ByJhumpa Lahiri

1999 • 277 Readers • 198 pages • 3.9

The Barefoot Woman

The Barefoot Woman

ByScholastique Mukasonga,Jordan Stump(Translator)

2008 • 6 Readers • 146 pages • 5

Parade

ByRachel Cusk

2024 • 34 Readers • 114 pages • 4.3

Momo

ByMichael Ende

1973 • 143 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Beklaute Frauen

Beklaute Frauen

ByLeonie Schöler

2024 • 2 Readers • 293 pages

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

ByGabrielle Zevin

2022 • 2,818 Readers • 482 pages • 4.1

Normal People

#1 of 1 in Normal People

BySally Rooney

2018 • 1,707 Readers • 273 pages • 3.6

Intermezzo

BySally Rooney

2024 • 356 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

Tell Me Everything

#5 of 5 in Amgash

Tell Me Everything

ByElizabeth Strout

2024 • 39 Readers • 326 pages • 4.1

There Are Rivers in the Sky

There Are Rivers in the Sky

ByElif Shafak

2023 • 57 Readers • 464 pages • 5

Where the Forest Meets the River

#2 of 1 in Dalton, Maine

Where the Forest Meets the River

ByShannon Bowring

2024 • 2 Readers

Assembly

ByNatasha Brown

2021 • 150 Readers • 112 pages • 3.9

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2024 • 42 Readers • 4.2

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

ByHaruki Murakami,Philip Gabriel(Translator)

2023 • 103 Readers • 448 pages • 3.6

Mrs Dalloway

ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 602 Readers • 282 pages • 3.8

Chrysalis: A Novel

Chrysalis: A Novel

ByAnna Metcalfe

2023 • 14 Readers • 3.5

Kokoro

ByNatsume Sōseki,Edwin McClellan(Translator)

1914 • 216 Readers • 263 pages • 4.2

The Heart's Invisible Furies

The Heart's Invisible Furies

ByJohn Boyne

2017 • 330 Readers • 959 pages • 4.5

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

ByHonorée Fanonne Jeffers

2021 • 158 Readers • 816 pages • 4.5

Great Circle

ByMaggie Shipstead

2021 • 208 Readers • 593 pages • 4

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

ByOlivia Hawker

2019 • 28 Readers • 496 pages • 4

The Pavement Bookworm: A True Story

The Pavement Bookworm: A True Story

ByPhilani Dladla

2015 • 1 Reader • 200 pages

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

ByMatthew Desmond

2016 • 398 Readers • 434 pages • 4.6

‎22 Bahnen

ByCaroline Wahl

2023 • 27 Readers • 185 pages • 4.4

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

ByKatherine Morgan Schafler

2023 • 56 Readers • 353 pages • 4

The Lowland

ByJhumpa Lahiri

2013 • 100 Readers • 340 pages • 4

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

BySalman Rushdie

1981 • 442 Readers • 640 pages • 4.1

A Little Book of Japanese Contentments: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi, and More

A Little Book of Japanese Contentments: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi, and More

ByErin Niimi Longhurst

2018 • 4 Readers • 288 pages • 3

Heaven

ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2009 • 311 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

Gute Nacht, Tokio

Gute Nacht, Tokio

ByAtsuhiro Yoshida,Katja Busson(Translator)

2018 • 1 Reader • 191 pages

Marble in Metamorphosis

Marble in Metamorphosis

ByRachel Cusk

2022 • 143 pages

Das Geschenk eines Regentages

Das Geschenk eines Regentages

ByMakoto Shinkai,Naruki Nagakawa

2021 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 2

Brotherless Night

Brotherless Night

ByV.V. Ganeshananthan

34 Readers • 4.3

Tokyo Ueno Station

Tokyo Ueno Station

ByMiri Yū,Morgan Giles(Translator)

2014 • 145 Readers • 197 pages • 3.5

Stoner

ByJohn Williams

1965 • 772 Readers • 305 pages • 4.5

Four Seasons in Japan

Four Seasons in Japan

ByNick Bradley

2023 • 36 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Last Summer on State Street

Last Summer on State Street

ByToya Wolfe

2022 • 23 Readers • 224 pages

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

ByMadhumita Murgia

2024 • 28 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

ByNoreen Masud

4 Readers • 4

Silk

ByAlessandro Baricco

1996 • 61 Readers • 110 pages • 3.8

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

ByMarie Mutsuki Mockett

2015 • 3 Readers • 336 pages

The Woman Who Smashed Codes

The Woman Who Smashed Codes

ByJason Fagone

2017 • 71 Readers • 444 pages • 4.5

Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees

Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees

ByErnst Lehner,Johanna Lehner

1990 • 2 Readers • 128 pages

Meaningful Bouquets: Create Special Messages with Flowers

Meaningful Bouquets: Create Special Messages with Flowers

ByLeigh Okies,Lisa McGuinness

2016 • 1 Reader • 184 pages

The Botany of Desire

The Botany of Desire

ByMichael Pollan

2001 • 122 Readers • 304 pages • 4

A Victorian flower dictionary The language of flowers companion

A Victorian flower dictionary The language of flowers companion

ByMandy Kirkby,Vanessa Diffenbaugh

2011 • 2 Readers • 194 pages

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader

ByHaemin Sunim

2012 • 54 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reidverse

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

ByTaylor Jenkins Reid

2017 • 2,589 Readers • 400 pages • 4.3

The Housemaid

#1 of 3 in The Housemaid

ByFreida McFadden

2022 • 946 Readers • 338 pages • 4

Against the Loveless World

Against the Loveless World

BySusan Abulhawa

2019 • 118 Readers • 385 pages • 4.6

Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

ByYōko Ogawa,Stephen B. Snyder(Translator)

2006 • 25 Readers • 229 pages • 4.2

Dominicana

ByAngie Cruz

2019 • 94 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry

ByBonnie Garmus

2022 • 1,158 Readers • 386 pages • 4.1

The Other Side of Beautiful

The Other Side of Beautiful

ByKim Lock

2021 • 2 Readers • 368 pages • 5

Emma

ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

6 • 1,093 Readers • 334 pages • 3.9

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

ByMichiko Aoyama,Alison Watts(Translator)

2020 • 386 Readers • 193 pages • 4.1

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 472 Readers • 810 pages • 4.2

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

#1 of 2 in Whistle Stop, AL

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

ByFannie Flagg

1987 • 272 Readers • 391 pages • 4.2

The Name of the Flower

The Name of the Flower

ByKuniko Mukoda,Tomone Matsumoto(Translator)

1994 • 1 Reader • 5

The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

Reading the City: A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

ByHideo Furukawa,Nao-Cola Yamazaki,+17 more

2014 • 16 Readers • 4

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2003 • 134 Readers • 7h 47m • 4.6

Women

ByCharles Bukowski

1978 • 118 Readers • 302 pages • 3.7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 602 Readers • 260 pages • 3.9

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

ByXóchitl González

2024 • 80 Readers • 306 pages • 4

Something like happy

Something like happy

ByWoods, Eva (Novelist)

3 Readers

Brown Girls

ByDaphne Palasi Andreades

2022 • 46 Readers • 224 pages • 3.3

The Invisible Women’s Club

The Invisible Women’s Club

ByHelen Paris

2 Readers • 336 pages

Jane Eyre

ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,933 Readers • 580 pages • 4

The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

BySue Monk Kidd

2001 • 535 Readers • 354 pages • 3.8

The Blueprint: A Novel

The Blueprint: A Novel

ByRae Giana Rashad

2024 • 16 Readers • 304 pages • 3.8

Schwarze Magnolie. Wie ich aus Nordkorea entkam. Ein Bericht aus der Hölle

Schwarze Magnolie. Wie ich aus Nordkorea entkam. Ein Bericht aus der Hölle

ByHyeonseo Lee,David John,+3 more

2014 • 1 Reader • 337 pages

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 955 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

ByJoan Didion

2005 • 533 Readers • 5h 1m • 4

Das Haus in der Mango Street

Das Haus in der Mango Street

BySandra Cisneros,Gerd Burger(Translator)

1984 • 1 Reader • 144 pages

Uglies

#1 of 4 in Uglies

ByScott Westerfeld

2005 • 565 Readers • 432 pages • 3.6