Sentence examples for shorter books from inspiring English sources

Why do more?" Shorter plays, shorter books, novellas even.

("Write shorter books!" she begged).

At fewer than 300 pages and having taken three years to write, it is one of Rushdie's shorter books.

(He has actually started, finished and published a handful of shorter books of comics since beginning "Big Questions").

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, and Emil and Karl, by Yankev Glatshteyn, are both shorter books for slightly younger readers.

Since e-books began to take off, publishers have begun experimenting with shorter books and single essays or stories, with mixed success.

A shorter book would have been a better book.

In 1953 he began writing and illustrating short books.

Ballard used to publish short books, and plenty of them.

That's the problem with writing short books.

"I'm working on a short book, but my short books end up being 250 pages," he jokes.