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A selection of quick books to fill your time as time seems to stand still. All under 200 pages.

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National...
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Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Convenience Store Woman is a wonderful little novel that questions societal expectations and norms and offers us a glimpse into what it's like to navigate the world as someone with autism. Main character Keiko spends her days as a convenience store employee and finds comfort in the monotony and certainty of every day procedures but she also... Read more

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The Vegetarian

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A KIRKUS...
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Dept. of Speculation

By: Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Jenny Offill
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

“This one isn’t for everyone, but it is right up my alley, and there are many people who love it – hence its presence of many, many “best of 2014” lists. I think of it as a cross-genre prose poem/memoir of a marriage. Beautiful, heart-breaking, eminently quotable. Sometimes there is a reason everyone is climbing on the same bandwagon. Read more

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The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka
Narrated by: Samantha Quan & Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award


Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy... Read more

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A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Roe Kendall
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World... Read more

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Train Dreams

A Novella

By: Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011

From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson
(Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more

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Fever Dream

A Novel

By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

“The creepy child vibes are strong with this one, and narrator Hillary Huber absolutely nails it. One mother’s attempt to save her child is met with a curse, and another’s vacation is brought to a screeching halt when she wakes up dying with little memory of how she got there. This is one of those books where you don’t really know what’s going on... Read more

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Old School

By: Tobias Wolff
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel.
Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while... Read more

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