It’s time to announce a brand new readathon that I’ll be co-hosting with one of my best friends, Kathy from Books & Munches…

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 & goals:

Instead of making a list of my ten shortest books, I made a massive list of books I own that are under 225 pages, and I’m going to go through them TBR jar style by choosing randomly throughout the readathon! I don’t have a goal besides knocking out as many reads as I possibly can.

1. 1-50 PAGES:
   1. Eitan’s Chord — Shira Glassman
   2. The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant — C. S. Pacat
   3. Love Bites — Magen Cubed
   4. Pet — C. S. Pacat
   5. The Legend of the Golden Raven — K. Ancrum
   6. Throttle — Joe Hill & Stephen King
   7. The Lost Sisters — Holly Black
2. 51-100 PAGES:
   1. We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
   2. Mara — Richard Denney
   3. Sour Candy — Kealan Patrick Burke
   4. Cleaner of Bones — Meg Kassel
   5. Witching Hour Theatre — Jonathan Janz
   6. A Soundless Dawn — Dustin LaValley
   7. Bingo Love — Tee Franklin
   8. I Am Not Your Final Girl — Claire C. Holland
   9. The Green Mile, Pt. 1 — Stephen King
   10. Don’t Call Us Dead — Danez Smith
3. 101-150 PAGES:
   1. Tales from the Darkside — Joe Hill
   2. Unnatural, Vol. 1 — Mirka Andolfo
   3. The Field Guide — Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
   4. Fence, Vol. 1 — C. S. Pacat
   5. Hammers on Bone — Cassandra Khaw
   6. Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones
   7. Everything Belongs to the Future — Laurie Penny
   8. Moonstruck, Vol. 1 — Grace Ellis
   9. The Ice Dragon — George R. R. Martin
   10. Fear Nothing, Vol. 1 — Dean Koontz
   11. Kingdom of Needle & Bone — Mira Grant
   12. I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1 — Skottie Young
   13. The Sea Was a Fair Master — Calvin Demmer
   14. Dream Woods — Patrick Lacey
   15. Spell on Wheels — Kate Leth
   16. Love, and You — Gretchen Gomez
   17. Almost Midnight — Rainbow Rowell
   18. Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You — Scotto Moore
   19. We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson
   20. A Holiday By Gaslight — Mimi Matthews
   21. I Felt Their Teeth in My Bones — Magen Cubed
   22. The Ballad of Black Tom — Victor Lavalle
   23. All Systems Red — Martha Wells
4. 151-200 PAGES:
   1. Twin Lakes: The Autumn Fires — Melissa Lason & Michelle Garza
   2. Dead Lake — Darcy Coates
   3. The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall — Mary Downing Hahn
   4. The Refrigerator Monologues — Catherynne M. Valente
   5. The Betrayal — R. L. Stine
   6. Go — Kazuki Kaneshiro
   7. At the Cemetery Gates, Vol. 2 — John Brhel & Joseph Sullivan
   8. River of Teeth — Sarah Gailey
   9. Bygone Badass Broads — Mackenzi Lee
   10. Revenge — Yoko Ogawa
   11. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day — Seanan McGuire
   12. Dust Bath Revival — Marianne Kirby
   13. Haunted Are These Houses — Eddie Generous
   14. Closed for the Season — Mary Downing Hahn
   15. Undertown, Vol. 1 — Jim Pascoe
   16. Coraline: The Graphic Novel — Neil Gaiman
   17. Tales of Terror — Christopher Pike
   18. Damaged Goods — Talia Hibbert
5. 201-225 PAGES:
   1. The Armored Saint — Myke Cole
   2. Amina’s Voice — Hena Khan
   3. The Mortal Instruments, Vol. 1 — Cassandra Clare
   4. In an Absent Dream — Seanan McGuire
   5. Bones — Andrew Cull
   6. Corpse Cold — John Brhel & Joseph Sullivan
   7. Universal Harvester — John Darnielle
   8. Sick House — Jeff Strand
   9. The Woods are Dark — Richard Laymon
   10. Small Spaces — Katherine Arden
   11. Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper — J. L. Bryan
   12. From Scratch — Katrina Jackson
   13. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon — Stephen King
   14. The Witch Boy  — Molly Ostertag
   15. Six Stories — Matt Wesolowski
   16. The Haunting of Rookward House — Darcy Coates

How many short books would you like to knock out during Short-a-Thon? Are there any titles immediately coming to mind that you want to read? Do you even like small books?! (We do!)

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