A Groundhog Career
Helmut Schuster & David Oxley264 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Award-Winning Books Under 300 Pages
Compare shorter prize-winning books using the recorded print-edition page counts. Length varies between editions; a short book can still demand slow, careful reading.
Books with a recorded page count below 300. Reading times use 30–40 pages per hour and are estimates. 106 books currently meet these criteria.
Ars Poeticas
Juliana Spahr74 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
I convitati di pietra
Michele Mari160 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch208 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–7 hours.
Die Holländerinnen
Dorothee Elmiger160 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Banu Mushtaq192 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
L'anniversario
Andrea Bajani128 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad187 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Patricia Smith256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Daniel Nayeri192 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?
Martina Hefter224 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Hunchback
Saou Ichikawa112 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
Nettle & Bone
Ursula Vernon256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007–2020
Carl Phillips224 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
A State of Fear
Laura Dodsworth230 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
frank: sonnets
Diane Seuss154 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
May You Have Delicious Meals
Junko Takase144 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene234 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Spatriati
Mario Desiati277 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–10 hours.
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen240 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Yapping Away
Joshua Seigal96 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop160 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
Due vite
Emanuele Trevi131 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Higanbana ga saku shima
Li Kotomi188 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz80 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses
Jessica Taylor-Bearman242 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Hakyoku
Haruka Tono141 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu288 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
W. Caleb McDaniel288 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
The Tradition
Jericho Brown96 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri180 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–6 hours.
1919 The Year That Changed America
Martin W. Sandler192 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Seitaka Awadachisō
Makoto Furukawa143 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Sight Lines
Arthur Sze80 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Natsuko Imamura224 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon
Jean-Paul Dubois245 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Trust Exercise
Susan Choi272 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–10 hours.
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed70 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
Okuribi
Hiroki Takahashi120 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez224 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Eiri
Shinsuke Numata94 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
Olio
Tyehimba Jess256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Ora Ora de Hitori Igumo
Chisako Wakatake164 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–6 hours.
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar243 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
The Wolf is Not Invited
Avril McDonald32 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 1–2 hours.
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata163 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–6 hours.
March: Book Three
Nate Powell & Andrew Aydin & John Lewis246 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Shinsekai
Sumito Yamashita163 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–6 hours.
The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky89 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–3 hours.
The Vegetarian
Han Kang201 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–7 hours.
Widerfahrnis
Bodo Kirchhoff223 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates155 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman1 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 1–1 hours.
Darke Mission
Scott Caladon200 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Digest
Gregory Pardlo84 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–3 hours.
Shinde Inai Mono
Yūshō Takiguchi144 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Sukurappu Ando Birudo
Keisuke Hada121 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis176 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–6 hours.
3 Sections
Vijay Seshadri75 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer208 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–7 hours.
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Glück80 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
I Think I Murdered Miss
Billy Bob Buttons195 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Il desiderio di essere come tutti
Francesco Piccolo264 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Kyūnenmae no Inori
Masatsugu Ono221 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
Lila
Marilynne Robinson261 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Redeployment
Phil Klay291 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
Ante’s Inferno
Griselda Heppel200 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Incarnadine
Mary Szybist70 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
Interpreters
Sue Eckstein214 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–8 hours.
One Woman’s War
Eileen Younghusband273 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–10 hours.
Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds96 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada112 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata288 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Behind the Rainbow
Johan Bakker198 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith75 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–3 hours.
Touring the Land of the Dead
Maki Kashimada144 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward1 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 1–1 hours.
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan288 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
When I Dream of ABC
Henry Fisher26 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 1–1 hours.
Kikotowa
Mariko Asabuki141 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Lighthead
Terrance Hayes95 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon294 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
Otome no Mikkoku
Akiko Akazome121 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Stabat Mater
Tiziano Scarpa144 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
The Shadow of Sirius
W. S. Merwin117 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–4 hours.
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
Keith Waldrop201 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 6–7 hours.
Tsui no Sumika
Ken'ichirō Isozaki142 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Potosu Raimu no Fune
Kikuko Tsumura186 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Toki ga Nijimu Asa
Yang Yi150 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Alabama Song
Gilles Leroy192 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Asatte no Hito
Tetsushi Suwa189 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Chichi to Ran
Mieko Kawakami138 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey51 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 2–2 hours.
The Gathering
Anne Enright272 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–10 hours.
A Perfect Day to Be Alone
Nanae Aoyama160 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–6 hours.
Hachigatsu no Rojō ni Suteru
Takami Itō122 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey126 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman296 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 8–10 hours.
Delights & Shadows
Ted Kooser87 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 3–3 hours.
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson256 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.
Il viaggiatore notturno
Maurizio Maggiani193 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
The Boy in the Earth
Fuminori Nakamura147 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 4–5 hours.
The Sea
John Banville195 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 5–7 hours.
Trois jours chez ma mère
François Weyergans262 pages in the recorded edition; approximately 7–9 hours.