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Short Days, Short Reads

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It’s that time of the year where the sun isn’t up until after 7am and sets by the time 5 o’clock rolls around- clearly the perfect time of the year for hot drinks and quick reads. Here are just some of the recent novellas, short story collections, anecdotal compilations, and books under 200 pages that we have in the BCPL collection. Titles from the nonfiction system will have their Dewey Decimal call number listed in parentheses. Don’t forget to check out our Short Days, Short Reads display!

Short Stories

  • American Spirits by Russell Banks
  • Harbor Lights : Stories by Jamie Lee Burke
  • Soul Jar : Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors Edited by Annie Carl
  • The Best that You can Do : Stories by Amina Gautier
  • Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad : Stories by Damilare Kuku
  • This Skin was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca
  • Old Crimes : and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle
  • All These Sunken Souls : a Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz
  • Fifty Beasts to Break your Heart : & Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
  • Neighbors and other Stories by Diane Oliver
  • Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go : Stories by Cleo Qian
  • Through the Night like a Snake : Latin American Horror Stories by various authors

Novellas

  • Cecilia by K-Ming Chang
  • Front Sight : Three Swagger Novellas by Stephen Hunter
  • What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
  • That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
  • The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
  • Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  • When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
  • Table for Two : Fictions by Amor Towles
  • We're Safe when We're Alone by Nghiem Tran
  • Pour One for the Devil : a Gothic Novella by Theodore C. Van Alst
  • The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
  • These Fragile Graces, this Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Anecdotes

  • The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians : True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson (028.9 PATTERSON)
  • The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt (081 NORTHCUTT)
  • Your Pocket Therapist : Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform your Life by Annie Zimmerman (158.1 ZIMMERMAN)
  • Rental Person who Does Nothing : a Memoir by Shoji Morimoto (301.364 MORIMOTO)
  • Cat and Nat's Mom Secrets : Coffee-Fueled Confessions from the Mom Trenches by Catherine Belnap (306.874 BELKNAP)
  • Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America by Jonathan Vigliotti (551.6 VIGLIOTTI)
  • The Accidental Veterinarian: Tales from a Pet Practice by Philipp Schott (636.089 SCHOTT)
  • The SalviSoul Cookbook : Salvadoran Recipes & the Women who Preserve Them by Karla Tatiana Vasquez (641.5972 VASQUEZ)
  • Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts : Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson (641.5975 WILKINSON)
  • F1 Racing Confidential : Inside Stories from the World of Formula One by Giles Richards (796.72 RICHARDS)
  • I've Tried Being Nice : Essays by Ann Leary (814.6 LEARY)
  • We are Experiencing a Slight Delay : Tips, Tales, Travels by Gary Janetti (910.4092 JANETTI)

 

Looking for more? Here are some of the search terms you can try when looking in our catalog:

  • “a novella” (Quick catalog tip- use quotation marks around a specific phrase to ensure you only produce results with that exact phrase)
  • anecdotes
  • and other tales
  • anthology
  • essays
  • novelettes
  • novellas
  • short stories
  • and other stories 
  • tales
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