September Shorts 2025

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14 participants (88 books)

01 Sep 2025—01 Oct 2025

Overview

This challenge is about keeping it short and sweet this September, with the aim of reading four short stories, novellas, or short story collections - one for each week!

Challenge Books

All books added
Inside Your Body There Are Flowers by Diane Awerbuck

Inside Your Body There Are Flowers

Diane Awerbuck

201 pages • paperback • 2023 user-added

fiction short stories
Darkest Worlds: A Dystopian Anthology by A.G. Henley, Kate Avery Ellison, Katie French, Zoe Cannon, S.K. Falls, Megan Thomason

Darkest Worlds: A Dystopian Anthology

A.G. Henley, Kate Avery Ellison, Katie French, Zoe Cannon, S.K. Falls, Megan Thomason

204 pages • 2013

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Eerie Basin by Ivy Pochoda

Eerie Basin

Ivy Pochoda

72 pages • digital • 2025

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious fast-paced
Cheese by Willem Elsschot

Cheese

Willem Elsschot

161 pages • digital • 1933 user-added

fiction classics funny lighthearted medium-paced
A Happy Place by Lucas Whorley

A Happy Place

Lucas Whorley

58 pages • digital • 2025 user-added

fiction horror short stories
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt

The English Understand Wool

Helen DeWitt

69 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction literary challenging reflective medium-paced
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

The Six Deaths of the Saint

Into Shadow #3

Alix E. Harrow

30 pages • digital • 2022

fiction fantasy short stories dark emotional fast-paced
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares

103 pages • paperback • 1940

fiction classics literary science fiction mysterious reflective medium-paced
Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo

Beast in the Shadows

Edogawa Rampo

96 pages • paperback • 1928

fiction classics mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Undercover by Tamsyn Muir

Undercover

Into Shadow #5

Tamsyn Muir

59 pages • digital • 2022

fiction fantasy horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced