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short books to break your slump

short books to break your slump

good, real reads at 100 pages or less

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Jul 04, 2025
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I’m a short book fanatic.

Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick. :  r/DunderMifflin

If I finish a 500+ page tome, it’s like…I’d better have loved the characters. The plot has to have been captivating. It’s supposed to be well written. Completing a book that long is a task in and of itself and I deserve for it to be exquisite after all that. Or at least put me in a Stockholm syndrome type situation.

Short books, on the other hand? If you can do all that in 200 pages you have my respect. Here are books I’d address with politeness and strong etiquette:

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