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Mystery Books You Can Read in a Day

25 Short Thrillers and Mysteries You Can't Even Pretend You Don't Have Time to Read

We get it — you're busy. You're lucky most days if you can even squeeze in a 10-minute workout. There are plenty of books out there too weighty to tackle when you're pressed for time, but lucky for you, we've put together a list of bite-sized books that you can finish in a weekend (or even in a single night!). Even if they weren't 200 pages or less, these 25 eerie books are so thrilling that you wouldn't want to put them down. The best thing about these short novels: you'll be able to cruise through your 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge!

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1. The Vegetarian

2. All This Has Nothing to Do With Me

3. The Sense of an Ending

4. An Event in Autumn

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5. The Ballad of Black Tom

6. McGlue

7. Home

8. The End We Start From

9. Annihilation

10. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

11. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

12. Gwendy's Button Box

13. Fever Dream

14. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

15. The Grownup

16. Ghachar Ghochar

17. Deep Ellum

18. The Dig

19. The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra

20. John the Posthumous

21. Nightshades

22. Prodigies

23. So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

24. The Invisibility Cloak

25. The Many

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