By Marita Klements, Assistant Director
The shortest day of 2023 in the northern hemisphere is today, Thursday, December 21st. When the sun sets tonight in Lynnfield at 4:14 PM it will be the longest night of the year. That means that tomorrow the days will begin to get longer again! Hurray! Deck the halls!!
But meanwhile, here’s a list of short books to read on the longest night of the year.
Friday black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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And every morning the way home gets longer and longer : a novella by Fredrik Backman
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Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
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Everything inside : stories by Edwidge Danticat
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Infinite country : a novel by Patricia Engel
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Pizza girl : a novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier
The liar’s wife : [four novellas] by Mary Gordon
Where the Light Falls by Nancy Hale
Life among the terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks
Calm sea and prosperous voyage : selected stories by Bette Howland
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
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My Monticello : fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Where reasons end : a novel by Yiyun Li
No one is talking about this : a novel by Patricia Lockwood
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Convenience store woman by Sayaka Murata
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Weather by Jenny Offill
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Riot baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
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The employees : a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
The world doesn’t require you : stories by Rion Scott
A house is a body : stories / Shruti Anna Swamy