Short classics books under 200 pages are quick and easy books that are must-reads for people who are wanting to add some classic literature into their reading, but don’t have the time. The best short classic books to read are all on our ultimate list. This list of the very best short classic novels you must read has something for everyone. Find all of the genres from contemporaries to mysteries and fantasies, and more all on this short classics under 200 pages books list.

Last Updated: April 24, 2024

Short Classics Books

1. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. Animal Farm by George Orwell

5. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

8. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

9. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

11. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

12. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

14. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

15. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

16. Candide by Voltaire

17. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

19. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

20. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

21. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

22. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

23. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

24. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

25. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

26. Slaughterhouse-FIve by Kurt Vonnegut

27. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

28. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

30. Billy Budd by Herman Melville

31. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

32. The Stranger by Albert Camus

33. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

34. Passing by Nella Larsen

35. The Trial by Franz Kafka

36. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

37. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

38. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

39. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

40. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

41. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

42. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

43. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

44. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

45. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

46. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

47. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

48. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

49. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

50. Sula by Toni Morrison

51. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

52. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

53. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

54. Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

55. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

56. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

57. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

58. Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood

59. The Street by Mordecai Richler

60. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

61. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

62. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

63. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

64. Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

65. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

66. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

67. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

68. Persuasion by Jane Austen

69. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

70. Silas Marner by George Eliot

Short Classics Books

Short classic books are perfect for getting some must-read classics on to your TBR. They are fantastic books to read at least once in your lifetime. Some are required reading for school, and others are ones that have been enjoyed for generations. What are some of your favourite short classic books under 200 pages to read?