📚 8 Short Novels Your Book Club Will Actually Read (AARP Article)

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📚 8 Short Novels Your Book Club Will Actually Read (AARP Article)

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8 Short Novels Your Book Club Will Actually Read (and Love).

Put aside the doorstoppers and consider these picks of 250 pages or less.

By Maria Speidel, AARP. Published August 13, 2024.

It happens to countless book clubs: You start out with great intentions of reading brilliant weighty novels, taking on books like Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead (560 pages) or Abraham Verghese’s epic The Covenant of Water (736 pages). They’re fantastic, but many members of your group just don’t have the time or motivation to plow through them and your discussions fizzle.

So consider these lighter (physically), also-wonderful novels — many of them award winners, most with compelling characters of all ages — that everyone in your club should have time to enjoy.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-2024/short-novels-for-book-clubs.html