I can’t remember the last time I participated in a readathon (I’m so bad at them!) but Destiny @ Howling Libraries and Kathy @ Books and Munches have put together this super fun one that I just had to join. 🙂

Here’s all the important info, snagged directly from Destiny’s post:

SHORT-A-THON!

Short-a-thon is a readathon that is going to take place from 12:00AM December 21st to 11:59PM December 31st. (You can go by your own time zone!)

The goal is simple: to focus on reading the SHORTEST books in your TBR! These can be short stories, novellas, graphic novels, manga—if it’s got a low page count, it works! Of course, our ideas of “short” books will all vary, so go by whatever YOU consider short!

We liked the idea of hosting this readathon for two reasons:
1) It’s unique!
2) BOOST THOSE READING CHALLENGE NUMBERS! Your December end-of-year wrap could look amazing with a big stack of short books thrown on top!

Here’s how you can join in…

Create a TBR in a blog post, tweet, or whatever else you like to use. We recommend making a list of your TEN (10) shortest books!

Leave a comment here or on Kathy’s post with a link to your TBR so she can add you to our official participants list (you can do this any time between now and December 21st).

Use #shortathon18 on social media so we can all find each other and cheer one another one, and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @shortathon! We’ll be hosting reading sprints and challenges everyday.

My Short-a-thon TBR

I decided to choose the same method as Destiny: I’ll write out a list of shorter books on my TBR (all under 150 pages) and choose my TBR at random. I’ve also split them up based on number of pages, like Destiny did! Some of these may not be published yet, and some I may not be able to get a hold of. I’ll select and random and read whatever I actually can and skip what I can’t. 🙂 Here are the books I’ve selected as options:

1-50 Pages: 

1. A Monstrous Love: Two Halloween Romances – Magen Cubed
2. Wet Nails – Shira Glassman
3. Heaven or This – Topaz Winters
4. Hex Wives #1 – Ben Blacker
5. The Goddess Collection – Ailie Wallace
6. Waiting on a Bright Moon – J.Y. Yang
7. Complementary and Acute – Ella Lyons
8. A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters – Sam Sax
9. Throttle – Joe Hill
10. A Jury of Her Peers – Susan Glaspell
11. Hunting Monsters – S.L. Huang

50-100 Pages:

1. The Terracotta Bride – Zen Cho
2. We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. New American Best Friend – Olivia Gatwood
4. In the Tall Grass – Stephen King
5. By the Bog of Cats – Marina Carr
6. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – 
   Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. The Grownup – Gillian Flynn
8. Sour Candy – Kealan Patrick Burke
9. Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live – Sacha Lamb
10. Rose – Li-Young Lee
11. This Way to the Sugar – Hieu Minh Nguyen
12. The Little Red Wolf – Amélie Fléchais
13. White Nights – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14. The Curse Catcher – Laura Thalassa
15. Night Sky with Exit Wounds – Ocean Vuong
16. Black Helicopters – Caitlín R. Kiernan
17. Riding the Track – Kara Ripley
18. Bingo Love – Tee Franklin
19. Learning Curves – Ceillie Simkiss
20. Don’t Tell My Mother – Brigitte Bautista
21. I’m Afraid of Men – Vivek Shraya
22. The Lost Path – Amélie Fléchais
23. ApocalyptiGirl – Andrew MacLean
24. Jealousy Survival Guide – Kitty Chambliss
25. Bluets – Maggie Nelson

100-150 Pages:

1. Pizzeria Kamikaze – Etgar Keret
2. Ongoingness – Sarah Manguso
3. The Atrocities – Jeremy C. Shipp
4. Ariel – Sylvia Plath
5. Some New Ambush – Carys Davies
6. Heathen Volume #1 – Natasha Alterici
7. Afterlife – Melissa Jennings
8. The Black God’s Drums – P. Djèlí Clark
9. Do/ Story/ – Bobette Buster
10. Wenjack – Joseph Boyden
11. Water Memory – Mathieu Reynès
12. The Backstagers Vol. 1 – James Tynion IV
13. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion – Margaret Killjoy
14. Heavy Vinyl Vol. 1 – Carly Usdin
15. Evidence of the Affair – Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. Women & Power – Mary Beard
17. A House at the Bottom of a Lake – Josh Malerman
18. Moonstruck Vol. 1 – Grace Ellis
19. The Devil You Know – KJ Parker
20. Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time – Hope Nicholson
21. Taproot – Keezy Young
22. Giant Days Vol. 1 – John Allison
23. Stairway – Matt Hawkins
24. Kingdom of Needle and Bone – Mira Grant
25. Sex Criminals Vol. 1 – Matt Fraction
26. You Should Have Left – Daniel Kehlmann
27. The Murders of Molly Southbourne
28. Written on the Body – Lexie Bean
29. The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
30. Dead Leaves – Patrick Kealan Burke
31. All Hail the House Gods – Andrew J Stone
32. The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida
33. Zodiac Starforce Vol. 1 – Kevin Panetta
34. Mockingbird Vol. 1 – Chelsea Cain
35. Spell on Wheels – Kate Leth
36. Runaways Vol. 1 – Rainbow Rowell
37. Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat! Vol. 1 – Kate Leth
38. Oh Honey – Emily Austin
39. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness – Kabi Nagata
40. The ABCs of Socialism – Bhaskar Sunkara
41. Batgirl Vol. 1 – Gail Simone
42. Almost Midnight – Rainbow Rowell
43. The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
44. Cold, Thin Air – CK Walter
45. The Melody of You and Me – M. Hollis
46. Anarchism and Its Aspirations – Cindy Milstein
47. The Man in the Picture – Susan Hill
48. Roadside Picnic – Arkady Strugatsky
49. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – Martin Noble
50. May We Shed These Human Bodies – Amber Sparks

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