Short books – those that can be consumed in one deliciously gratifying reading gulp – are far less overwhelming when you feel as though your life doesn’t have much space for reading.

Having read them all, it is more of a mixed bag than I hoped – while two are easily the best books I’ve read all year, there ...

And if you’ve been looking to get into short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start. We’ve gathered eleven of the best short ... Mariner Books Adjei-Brenyah (author ...

in the best way possible. Read a profile of Lockwood here at Esquire. Beginning indelibly with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s short but sweeping novel ...

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Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).