A selection of #WaferThinBooks from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, courtesy of booknerd37 on Instagram. All guaranteed under 150 pages.
May 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
A selection of #WaferThinBooks from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, courtesy of booknerd37 on Instagram. All guaranteed under 150 pages.
Today's #WaferThinBook: December, by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter, tr. Martin Chalmers (2010/2021, 118p.)
Richter's stunning photos of a snow-covered forest interspersed with 39 stories, 1-2 per day, some historical, some autobiographical, some fictional, all about the elasticity of time.
Richter's stunning photos of a snow-covered forest interspersed with 39 stories, 1-2 per day, some historical, some autobiographical, some fictional, all about the elasticity of time.
March 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM
In Seattle for two hours and already collected a small stack of #WaferThinBooks from the legendary Magus Books in the U District.
April 4, 2024 at 4:24 AM
In Seattle for two hours and already collected a small stack of #WaferThinBooks from the legendary Magus Books in the U District.
I read A Box of Photographs, by Roger Grenier (Chicago, 2013; translated by Alice Kaplan). Collected here are anecdotes from a busy life (Resistance partisan, journalist, Gallimard editor) that have to do, however tangentially, with photography.
May 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
2024 was the year of #WaferThinBooks. 366 daily posts with suggestions of (mostly) under-150 page long books to accompany our WaferThinBooks.com reading group.
I'll continue to post occasional recommendations, but the daily posts are at an end. I hope you found a few books worth reading.
I'll continue to post occasional recommendations, but the daily posts are at an end. I hope you found a few books worth reading.
January 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
2024 was the year of #WaferThinBooks. 366 daily posts with suggestions of (mostly) under-150 page long books to accompany our WaferThinBooks.com reading group.
I'll continue to post occasional recommendations, but the daily posts are at an end. I hope you found a few books worth reading.
I'll continue to post occasional recommendations, but the daily posts are at an end. I hope you found a few books worth reading.
Devoting the year to reading #WaferThinBooks turns out to have little effect on my book buying. Indeed, it seems to have made it worse.
February 3, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Devoting the year to reading #WaferThinBooks turns out to have little effect on my book buying. Indeed, it seems to have made it worse.
My haul of #WaferThinBooks from the Montana Valley Bookstore in Alberton. All but one ≤150 pages. (more)
September 24, 2023 at 10:59 PM
My haul of #WaferThinBooks from the Montana Valley Bookstore in Alberton. All but one ≤150 pages. (more)
On this date in 2023, I offered ten #WaferThinBooks (under 150 pages long) of nonfiction selected from the pages of NeglectedBooks.com. I'm pleased to say that two (Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I and Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement) have since been reissued.
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September 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
On this date in 2023, I offered ten #WaferThinBooks (under 150 pages long) of nonfiction selected from the pages of NeglectedBooks.com. I'm pleased to say that two (Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I and Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement) have since been reissued.
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We lost power, so I went to a bookstore to avoid freezing to death. All #WaferThinBooks (well, Eve Babitz slightly over at 162p., but who's counting?)
February 27, 2024 at 10:47 PM
We lost power, so I went to a bookstore to avoid freezing to death. All #WaferThinBooks (well, Eve Babitz slightly over at 162p., but who's counting?)
Sie hast lesbarenbücherausgehenangst. (Unless they're all #WaferThinBooks.)
December 10, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Sie hast lesbarenbücherausgehenangst. (Unless they're all #WaferThinBooks.)
A Baker's Dozen #WaferThinBooks from Valancourt Books, one of the best reissue publishers around.
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May 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
A Baker's Dozen #WaferThinBooks from Valancourt Books, one of the best reissue publishers around.
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Ten #WaferThinBooks Set on Trains
Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Here's a look at some books of 150 pages or less for your next railway journey.
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Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Here's a look at some books of 150 pages or less for your next railway journey.
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February 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Ten #WaferThinBooks Set on Trains
Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Here's a look at some books of 150 pages or less for your next railway journey.
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Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Here's a look at some books of 150 pages or less for your next railway journey.
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Today's #WaferThinBook: Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton that portrays New York society between the 1840s and 1870s. It was originally published in a beautiful boxed set by D. Appleton & Co. (more)
April 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
The final stack from three days of paying calls on Seattle bookstores. Not many neglected, but all certified #WaferThinBooks. Feel free to prioritize my TBR list with any recommendations.
April 7, 2024 at 5:14 AM
The final stack from three days of paying calls on Seattle bookstores. Not many neglected, but all certified #WaferThinBooks. Feel free to prioritize my TBR list with any recommendations.
Some Melville House editor may simply have become fixated on books titled The Duel. (To be fair, the other four are legitimately novellas.)
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March 3, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Some Melville House editor may simply have become fixated on books titled The Duel. (To be fair, the other four are legitimately novellas.)
#WaferThinBooks
#WaferThinBooks
New on NeglectedBooks.com: A guest post by David Quantick on The Young Immigrunts, Ring Lardner's hilarious riff on Daisy Ashford's precocious tale, The Young Visiters (both #WaferThinBooks, by the way):
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October 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM
New on NeglectedBooks.com: A guest post by David Quantick on The Young Immigrunts, Ring Lardner's hilarious riff on Daisy Ashford's precocious tale, The Young Visiters (both #WaferThinBooks, by the way):
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Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Time spent on a train is sort of a hiatus from everyday life. No surprise, then, that so many novelists have been attracted to the setting. Here are ten #WaferThinBooks set on trains.
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Ten Wafer-Thin Books Set on Trains - Wafer Thin Books
Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Strangers meet on trains, are forced into awkward, artificial…
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May 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Time spent on a train is sort of a hiatus from everyday life. No surprise, then, that so many novelists have been attracted to the setting. Here are ten #WaferThinBooks set on trains.
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#2 on Irina's list of tips is: "Befriend the novella."
Just a reminder that, although the #WaferThinBooks group is over, there's still a ton of novella recommendations, plus profiles of the 12 books we read, to be found at waferthinbooks.com.
Just a reminder that, although the #WaferThinBooks group is over, there's still a ton of novella recommendations, plus profiles of the 12 books we read, to be found at waferthinbooks.com.
May 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#2 on Irina's list of tips is: "Befriend the novella."
Just a reminder that, although the #WaferThinBooks group is over, there's still a ton of novella recommendations, plus profiles of the 12 books we read, to be found at waferthinbooks.com.
Just a reminder that, although the #WaferThinBooks group is over, there's still a ton of novella recommendations, plus profiles of the 12 books we read, to be found at waferthinbooks.com.
New: Ten Terrific #WaferThinBooks from Seagull Book's Library of German Literature
In which I admit my crush on the striking geometric covers of these Seagull books and my admiration for the quality and energy of the writing therein.
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In which I admit my crush on the striking geometric covers of these Seagull books and my admiration for the quality and energy of the writing therein.
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March 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM
New: Ten Terrific #WaferThinBooks from Seagull Book's Library of German Literature
In which I admit my crush on the striking geometric covers of these Seagull books and my admiration for the quality and energy of the writing therein.
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In which I admit my crush on the striking geometric covers of these Seagull books and my admiration for the quality and energy of the writing therein.
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tagging in @neglectedbooks.bsky.social and @mitdasein.bsky.social on this #WaferThinBooks treasure trove!
July 27, 2024 at 8:21 PM
tagging in @neglectedbooks.bsky.social and @mitdasein.bsky.social on this #WaferThinBooks treasure trove!
Probably the most Viennese of books is Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday. After that, a Schnitzler or two (they're #WaferThinBooks). Or for something more obscure, Edith de Born's The House in Vienna.
June 2, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Probably the most Viennese of books is Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday. After that, a Schnitzler or two (they're #WaferThinBooks). Or for something more obscure, Edith de Born's The House in Vienna.
A visit to the paperback-stuffed basement of the Montana Valley Bookstore in Alberton to pick up some candidates for the #WaferThinBooks reading group next year. It's harder and harder to find places where you can browse mass market paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s.
September 24, 2023 at 10:03 PM
A visit to the paperback-stuffed basement of the Montana Valley Bookstore in Alberton to pick up some candidates for the #WaferThinBooks reading group next year. It's harder and harder to find places where you can browse mass market paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s.
The #WaferThinBooks of Martin Guerre:
1. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (Swallow, 116p.)
The famous tale of the man who returns after 8 years and claims to be Martin, husband of Bertrande, only to be proved an impostor, as told by the wife who accepted him as real.
1. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (Swallow, 116p.)
The famous tale of the man who returns after 8 years and claims to be Martin, husband of Bertrande, only to be proved an impostor, as told by the wife who accepted him as real.
April 2, 2024 at 1:10 PM
The #WaferThinBooks of Martin Guerre:
1. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (Swallow, 116p.)
The famous tale of the man who returns after 8 years and claims to be Martin, husband of Bertrande, only to be proved an impostor, as told by the wife who accepted him as real.
1. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (Swallow, 116p.)
The famous tale of the man who returns after 8 years and claims to be Martin, husband of Bertrande, only to be proved an impostor, as told by the wife who accepted him as real.
What a wonderful idea, a reading list of short but punchy books… time to dust off that library card! #waferthinbooks waferthinbooks.com/2023/09/10/a...
February 22, 2024 at 4:10 PM
What a wonderful idea, a reading list of short but punchy books… time to dust off that library card! #waferthinbooks waferthinbooks.com/2023/09/10/a...
New on WaferThinBooks: Favorites from The Modern Novel
I invited the wizard behind themodernnovel.org to recommend some of his favorites from the 1000+ novels featured on his site. An eclectic and wide-ranging selection:
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I invited the wizard behind themodernnovel.org to recommend some of his favorites from the 1000+ novels featured on his site. An eclectic and wide-ranging selection:
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March 2, 2024 at 2:10 PM
New on WaferThinBooks: Favorites from The Modern Novel
I invited the wizard behind themodernnovel.org to recommend some of his favorites from the 1000+ novels featured on his site. An eclectic and wide-ranging selection:
waferthinbooks.com/2...
I invited the wizard behind themodernnovel.org to recommend some of his favorites from the 1000+ novels featured on his site. An eclectic and wide-ranging selection:
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