The semester is over, and you can finally breathe. You can sleep, relax, watch TV, do all the things you wanted to do while school was in. You can also read books you actually like instead of textbooks.
If you're looking for books you could start and finish throughout winter break, you've come to the right place. You can pick from this list of five books short enough and good enough that you will be able to devour it over your break from school.
1. "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
This book keeps you on your toes the entire time you read it. Like a classic scary story, it has the haunted house, creepy noises, inexplicable occurrences, and more. This novel gets in your head with amazingly mingled psychological elements and the paranormal happenings that will leave you with chills. And once you finish the book, you can binge the Netflix series based on it.
2. "Gwendy's Button Box" by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Based in Stephen King’s iconic fictional town of Castle Rock, this story follows Gwendy Peterson after she’s given a mysterious and powerful box. The book details her life from childhood to her college graduation and shows what can happen when the wrong person has too much power.
3. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray BradburyÂ
In a dystopian future where books are outlawed, firemen don’t put fires out, they burn any house books are found in. But when fireman Guy Montag is introduced to the ideas of books and a past in which they were legal and people didn’t live in fear, he begins to question everything.
4. "That Was Then, This Is Now" by S.E. Hinton
This book is just as heart-wrenching as Hinton's more famous novel “The Outsiders." It follows two best friends who have to endure their growing differences as they grow up. It shows some raw realities of life breaks your heart in the process.
5. "Then She Was Gone" by Lisa JewellÂ
Lisa Jewell's mystery/suspense novel is about a mother whose daughter vanished at the age of 15. 10 years later, Laurel still has the hope of finding out what happened to her daughter, Ellie. When she meets a man with a young daughter of his own, she's shocked by how much she reminds her of her missing child. This uncanny lookalike of Ellie brings all the questions of what happened to her back to the surface.
