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Quick Lit

This list includes books under 200 pages. Let's call them "one sitting reads".  While most are fiction, we've included a few memoirs and essays in the list.

If you are participating in our 2023 Book Talks Challenge or Adult Summer Reading 2023, write a short book review using a bookmark review form (pick one up at the Reference Desk or email your review to marcia.literati@tenafly.bccls.org (put Book Review in the subject line).

Everyone who writes a review will be entered into a monthly drawing for a free book.

Make sure to submit your review by August 31, 2023.




Another Brooklyn

by Jacqueline Woodson






The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder




The Colossus of New York

by Colson Whitehead


Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata


Department of Speculation

by Jenny Offill








The Invisibility Cloak

by Ge Fei




Leaving the Atocha Station

by Ben Lerner


My Name is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout


News of the World

by Paulette Jiles


The Odd Woman and the City

by Vivian Gornick




Our Souls at Night

by Kent Haruf


The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood




The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid


A Room With a View

by E M Forster




The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes


The Slow Regard of Silent Things

by Patrick Rothfuss




The Strange Library

by Haruki Murakami






The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett




We the Animals

by Justin Torres


What Belongs to You

by Garth Greenwall


Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

by Lorrie Moore