• Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day - The Fall by Albert Camus
  • Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day - Convenience Store Woman: A Novel by Sayaka Murata
  • Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day - The Sense of an Ending: A Novel by Julian Barnes
  • Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
  • Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day - The Flick by Annie Baker

Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day, recommended by Cal Flyn

Talked a lot of big talk about writing that novel in lockdown, or repainting the house? Us too. When it came down to it, many of us have felt too frantic to take on big projects – and that goes for our reading lives too. Here, Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn recommends some very short books that might be read over the course of a day or, being small and easily surmountable, might just break a reading drought.

  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020 - Starling Days: A Novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020 - Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020 - Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020 - Pew by Catherine Lacey
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020 - Blue Ticket: A Novel by Sophie Mackintosh

Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Summer 2020, recommended by Cal Flyn

No writer could resent you losing track of the new novels being published into the chaos of summer 2020 – with the world on lockdown and protestors taking to the streets. But fiction can offer respite from a relentless news cycle, writes Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn – and an opportunity to consider our own lives and choices through the prism of others’.