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Short Reads: Titles A-M

Short Reads is a list of books usually fewer than 200 pages, that are interesting, uncomplicated, and considered page turners.

Books A - D

Animal farm; 1984 by George Orwell
Call Number: PR 6029 .R8 A63 2003
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Call Number: PZ 7 .B6265 Ar 1986
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 2006
Big fish: a novel of mythic proportions by Daniel Wallace
Call Number: PS 3573 .A4256348 B5 2003
The big sleep (1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition) by Raymond Chandler
Call Number: PS 3505 .H3224 B5 1992
The bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: PS 3545 .I345 B7 1967
The bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Call Number: PS 3573 .A4347 B75 1992
Carrie; [a novel of a girl with a frightening power. by Stephen King
Call Number: PS 3561 .I483 C3 1974
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (1st Vintage Contemporaries edition) by Mark Haddon
Call Number: PZ 7 .H1165 Cu 2004
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Call Number: PS 2116 .D3 1995
Dove by Robin Lee Graham; Derek L. T. Gil
Call Number: G 530 .G72 D6 1991
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Call Number: LD 571. B418 S383 1997
Home by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 H66 2012
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Call Number: PS 3505.A59 A15 2012

Books E- I

Ellen Foster (1st edition) by Kaye Gibbons
Call Number: PS 3557 .I13917 E4 1987
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Call Number: PS 3545.H16 E7 1991
Eventide : a novel (1st Vintage Contemporaries edition) by Kent Haruf
Call Number: PS 3558 .A716 E93 2005
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS 3503 .R167 F3634 2013
The fever by Wallace Shawn
Call Number: PS 3569 .H387 F48 1991b
Go ask Alice by Anonymous
Call Number: PZ 7 .G534 2006
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: PS 3511 .I9 G7 2004
Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad
Call Number: PR 6005.O4 H4 1990
I heard the owl call my name by Margaret Craven
Call Number: PS 3553 .R277 I2 1973
The invisible man by H. G. Wells; Patrick Parrinder
Call Number: PR 5774 .I5 2005
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene; Michael Edward Gorra
Call Number: PR 6013 .R44 E5 2004
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: PZ 7 .G8233 Lo 2015
Lolita by Vladímir Nabokov
Call Number: PS 3527 .A15 L6 1997

Books J - M

Jonah's gourd vine : a novel by Zorah Neale Hurston; Rita Dove ; et al.
Call Number: PS 3515 .U789 J66 2008
The kingdom of this world by Alejo Carpentier
Call Number: PQ 7389 .C363 R43 1989
The lilies of the field by William E. Barrett
Call Number: PS 3503 .A62875 L5
The loneliness of the long-distance runner by Alan Sillitoe
Call Number: PR 6037 .I55 L6 1960
The lost boy : a novella by Thomas Wolfe; James W. Clark Jr.
Call Number: PS 3545 .O337 L7 1992
Love by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 L68 2003
The Lover by Marguerite Duras; Marguerite Duras
Call Number: PQ 2607 .U8245 A62613 1997
Maggie, a girl of the streets and selected stories by Stephen Crane; Alfred Kazin
Call Number: PS 1449 .C85 A6 2006
The Maltese falcon (1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition) by Dashiell Hammett
Call Number: PS 3515 .A4347 M3 1992
The member of the wedding by Carson McCullers
Call Number: PS 3525 .A1772 M4 2004

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