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.
- 1-50 PAGES:
- Eitan’s Chord — Shira Glassman
- The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant — C. S. Pacat
- Love Bites — Magen Cubed
- Pet — C. S. Pacat
- The Legend of the Golden Raven — K. Ancrum
- Throttle — Joe Hill & Stephen King
- The Lost Sisters — Holly Black
- 51-100 PAGES:
- We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Mara — Richard Denney
- Sour Candy — Kealan Patrick Burke
- Cleaner of Bones — Meg Kassel
- Witching Hour Theatre — Jonathan Janz
- A Soundless Dawn — Dustin LaValley
- Bingo Love — Tee Franklin
- I Am Not Your Final Girl — Claire C. Holland
- The Green Mile, Pt. 1 — Stephen King
- Don’t Call Us Dead — Danez Smith
- 101-150 PAGES:
- Tales from the Darkside — Joe Hill
- Unnatural, Vol. 1 — Mirka Andolfo
- The Field Guide — Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
- Fence, Vol. 1 — C. S. Pacat
- Hammers on Bone — Cassandra Khaw
- Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones
- Everything Belongs to the Future — Laurie Penny
- Moonstruck, Vol. 1 — Grace Ellis
- The Ice Dragon — George R. R. Martin
- Fear Nothing, Vol. 1 — Dean Koontz
- Kingdom of Needle & Bone — Mira Grant
- I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1 — Skottie Young
- The Sea Was a Fair Master — Calvin Demmer
- Dream Woods — Patrick Lacey
- Spell on Wheels — Kate Leth
- Love, and You — Gretchen Gomez
- Almost Midnight — Rainbow Rowell
- Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You — Scotto Moore
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson
- A Holiday By Gaslight — Mimi Matthews
- I Felt Their Teeth in My Bones — Magen Cubed
- The Ballad of Black Tom — Victor Lavalle
- All Systems Red — Martha Wells
- 151-200 PAGES:
- Twin Lakes: The Autumn Fires — Melissa Lason & Michelle Garza
- Dead Lake — Darcy Coates
- The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall — Mary Downing Hahn
- The Refrigerator Monologues — Catherynne M. Valente
- The Betrayal — R. L. Stine
- Go — Kazuki Kaneshiro
- At the Cemetery Gates, Vol. 2 — John Brhel & Joseph Sullivan
- River of Teeth — Sarah Gailey
- Bygone Badass Broads — Mackenzi Lee
- Revenge — Yoko Ogawa
- Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day — Seanan McGuire
- Dust Bath Revival — Marianne Kirby
- Haunted Are These Houses — Eddie Generous
- Closed for the Season — Mary Downing Hahn
- Undertown, Vol. 1 — Jim Pascoe
- Coraline: The Graphic Novel — Neil Gaiman
- Tales of Terror — Christopher Pike
- Damaged Goods — Talia Hibbert
- 201-225 PAGES:
- The Armored Saint — Myke Cole
- Amina’s Voice — Hena Khan
- The Mortal Instruments, Vol. 1 — Cassandra Clare
- In an Absent Dream — Seanan McGuire
- Bones — Andrew Cull
- Corpse Cold — John Brhel & Joseph Sullivan
- Universal Harvester — John Darnielle
- Sick House — Jeff Strand
- The Woods are Dark — Richard Laymon
- Small Spaces — Katherine Arden
- Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper — J. L. Bryan
- From Scratch — Katrina Jackson
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon — Stephen King
- The Witch Boy — Molly Ostertag
- Six Stories — Matt Wesolowski
- The Haunting of Rookward House — Darcy Coates
This sounds like a great way to knock out some of the novellas I have on my TBR! What a good idea!
Thank you! 😀 I hope you’ll join us! <3
Great idea! I can’t believe how many “shorts” you have on your list, but hopefully you can get through a bunch?
Thank you! I KNOW, RIGHT. ?? I had no idea I’d accrued as many novellas as I have.
Please tell me you’re planning on a picture with all of these stacked because I SO want to see what that looks like. Even more so if you put a stack of “regular size” books next to it, just to compare the “normal amount” vs. the “short amount” if you know what I mean? 😛
I AM SO READY FOR THIS BTW.
Is it December 21st yet?
I wish. ? But probably 80% or more of these are ebooks! that said… I will probably pull all of the physical ones and take a photo of those, at least. I KNOW, I’M SO EXCITED. I’m seriously dying for it to get here.
YES. DO IT.
Saaaame. Although I think it’ll be there before we know it. Time’s been flying lately.. Like.. It’s almost December, wtf..
omg yessss this sounds like my ideal readathon!! I’m 100% gonna be taking part. I LOVE short books ? from your list I’ve read and loved: We Should All Be Feminists, Moonstruck, The Refrigerator Monologues, Small Spaces and Six Stories !!!
YAY! 😀 I’m so glad you’re excited, that makes me soooo happy! Ooooh, excellent, because literally all of those are titles that I’m especially hoping to get to during the readathon. ?? I’m actually a few chapters into Small Spaces right now, but I left it on the list just in case I don’t finish it by the time it starts.
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I didn’t realize how many short books I have on my TBR??? Love this read-a-thon so much. I am aiming for 15 books!
I’ve attached my TBR list on goodreads 🙂
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/26121897-bri-brinocheeze?order=a&shelf=shortathon-18
YAY! I’m so happy you’re going to join us! 😀 15 books is an awesome goal. You have an amazing TBR! I’m swooning over Jonathan Janz being on the list, I love him. ♥
Ahhhh! Im definitely going to participate in this! It will be my first read-a-thon! ?
YAY! I’m so happy you would choose ours as your first, that honestly made my whole morning! 🙂
This is awesome! I have a stack of graphic novels I’ve been meaning to get to so I’m all over this. Between this read-a-thon and the #tometopple it’s going to be a stellar end to the year!
Yaaaaay! I love it! 😀 Good luck with your reading! I have a few graphic novels here I need to read as well and I’m saving them all for the readathon, plus I might use it as a good excuse to reread the Locke & Key graphic novels.
Thank you! The Locke & Key series is another one on my list I’d like to get to some day! 🙂
It is sooooo good! ?
Here’s my TBR! laundrypiles.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/my-short-a-thon-tbr-december-2018/
Yay! Thank you! I’ll go check it out and make sure you get added to Kathy’s list!
Ahhh I love the idea of the TBR!!! I’ll have to look at the shortest books on my TBR and see which ones I should get!!!
Thank you, Ally! 😀 I’m so glad you’re joining us!!
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I am so in! Thanks for this ladies ❤
Yaaaaay! We’re so happy to have you 😀
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I’m probably too excited at the prospect of finding out how many pages each book on my tbr has! ?
?? no lie, I had SO much fun making my list. I know my list is honestly waaaay too long but I couldn’t stop. It was originally gonna be everything under 300 pages but that added a good 50+ more books to the list so I said “okay, calm down, Destiny…” bahaha
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Many good titles on here, but!! All Systems Red and In An Absent Dream!! I haven’t read the latter but I love that series so much. I still haven’t read Beneath the Sugar Sky, although I finally got a copy at a discount. Good luck on your reading 😀 I’ve heard great things about From Scratch as well and I’m excited about it.
Thank you! I am soooo excited for both of those. ☺️ And BtSS is so good, I hope you love it!
This is a great idea! I would love to participate, I’ll be uploading my TBR at the end of the month or the beginning of December and I’ll let you know!. I can’t wait it will be a lot of fun! ??
Thank you! Yayyyy ?? I’m so glad you’ll be joining us! ??
So excited for this!! Such a great idea & thanks for hosting! I’ll definitely be joining 😀
Yay! Thank you for joining us! ☺️
This is such a GREAT idea! I love it so much. I want to participate, but will have to find some short stories first. Hahahaha! I hope you end up reading the Lost Sisters! Really enjoyed that short story. 🙂
Thank you!! I hope you’re able to find some and join us! ☺️ oh awesome, I’m actually thinking about making a list of “must read” stories for the readathon to go along with my random picks. If I do, that one is going on the list for sure!
LOL I’ve actually been doing this lately! Just can’t focus on the longer books now, it seems 😀
Will be boosting this post 🙂 sounds like a fun one!
Haha that’s awesome! Thank you lovely!! ☺️
omg i already know my eyes are going to pop out of my head like a cartoon character when i see your december wrap-up.
this is a brilliant idea!!! i lovelovelove short books so i may join in B)
Ahahaha I’m hoping it’s going to be like 50+ books, not gonna lie. Between my semester ending on December 3rd and this readathon? BRING IT
AHHHH I hope you do!! ???
Fantastic idea! I am going to look through my TBR to see what I have!
Thank you, and please do! <3
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Ahh this is so exciting, hopefully, I’ll be able to join you and read a bunch of backlist comics! ??
YAY! 😀 I hope you can! I’m slowly hoarding all of my unread graphic novels for the readathon, plus I just requested a few from the library that I’m hoping won’t come in until right before the readathon starts hah.
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So excited for this readathon
My TBR is is finally up – https://thecritiquesofafangirl.wordpress.com/?p=513
Yaay, that’s awesome! I’ll go check out your TBR, thanks for joining!
Thank you for hosting
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It was so much fun seeing this readathon. I hope it’s okay that I posted a IG photo of my TBR stack as a way to sign up for this. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrX3Dp1Hv2R/
Yes, that is totally okay! 😀 Thank you for joining us!
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The count down is on!! I’m entering at the 11th hour but I’ve been super excited about this for a while!! I picked out 30 potential books to read, but my goal is to read 9 that have been on my TBR for ages or that I’m most excited about this year!
https://bubblybooknerd.com/short-a-thon/
Yaaaaay, so glad you’re joining us!! 😀
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