Reading Lists: Book Club Picks and Short Novels

Reading lists

A list is only useful if it tells you why each book is on it. These do. Some books here have full reviews on the site; others are simply ones we keep handing to people.

Reading listIf you liked The Nickel Boys: 8 books to read nextMore Whitehead, a Mississippi road trip with a ghost, and other novels about institutions that fail children and the people who outlast them.

Reading listNovels under 200 pages worth your weekendShort books with long tails: eight novels you can finish between Friday night and Sunday lunch, and keep thinking about for weeks.

Reading listBook club picks that start argumentsNine novels that split a room down the middle, with the exact question to ask when the conversation stalls.