Books for those with petite attention spans
Curated by @shelfthreads · 9 books
Short(ish), fast-moving books you can finish in a weekend, or a single sitting. For when your brain won’t sit still but you still want something brilliant.
- 1
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
For eighteen years Keiko has worked the same Tokyo convenience store, saying exactly the right words in exactly the right order. Then everyone decides it’s time she became normal.
- 2
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
June watches her far more successful friend die, then walks out with her unfinished manuscript. She publishes it as her own, and the internet starts to notice.
- 3
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Content warningChristmas break in 1980s Los Angeles means rich kids, empty mansions, endless parties, and a numbness that lets worse and worse things happen.
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