Recommending modern classics under 250 pages! | Shorty September 2026

Just in case you need even more recommendations for Shorty September, I've got you! Here's 20+ modern classics that you could read for the Denim Shorts prompt. Shorty September 2026 is hosted by ‪@TooManyHeathers‬, ‪@RovingReader‬ and me! Don't forget to check out The Big List of Shorty Recommendations too! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... BOOKS MENTIONED Surfacing by Margaret Atwood The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks A raisin in the sun by Lorrainne Hansberry A month in the country by J.L. Carr A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston Sula by Toni Morrison A small place by Jamaica Kincaid The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger The true deceiver by Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal Lily is crying by Hélène Bessette, tr. Kate Briggs A woman in the polar night by Christiane Ritter, tr. Jane Degras Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, tr. Megan Backus 84 charing cross road by Helen Hanff The living mountain by Nan Shepherd Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Now in November by Josephine Johnson We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson The member of the wedding by Carson McCullers Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson The women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor