Any ideas for short novel choice for book group?

[Clawdy]

My book group choice next, and for various reasons, we've got less time to read it, so I need a shortish novel! Any ideas?

Seascraper Benjamin Wood

Anything by David Almond. Technically he writes "children's books" but they are wonderfully poetic and philosophical. The Colour of the Sun is my favourite.

A Month in the Country J L Carr

Edit to add suggestions from DH:

Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Simple Passion Annie Ernaux

A Month in the Country is a perfect novel.

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden?
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald?
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan?
Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter?
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss?

Oh, seconded Annie’s Ernaux’s Simple Passion, too.

On Chesil Beach

Want something a bit deeper?
The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig is my all-time favourite book.

I who have never known men by Jaqueline Harpman
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Heatwave by Victor Jestin
The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
Beside The Sea by Veronique Olmi
Foster or Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Who Will Run The Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore

Small Things like These by Claire Keegan. Just superb.

On Chesil Beach.

On Chesil Beach
The outsiders
Agatha Christie

Like others I was coming on to say A Month In The Country.

Recently I read - and loved:

The English Understand Wool by Helen De Witt

Three Fires by Denise Mina

Orbital by Samatha Hervey

The Turn of the Screw or Washington Square by Henry James would be good too.

I highly recommend 'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey

Orbital by Samantha Harvey | Waterstones

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Foster by Claire Keegan!

The Enchanted April is pretty short and also seasonal.
It's by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Currently reading this!

I'd recommend 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan as others have suggested too.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt.
It is very short, though.

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht or 3 Days in June by Anne Tyler

Somebody recently described Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as a Tardis of a novel . I thought that was a brilliant description for a short book with a lot of depth.

My sister the serial killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

I came here to say Orbital as well - I'm currently reading this and managed to snag a signed copy which is a bit of a boon.

Also love the suggestion of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

I'll also toss in McGlue by Ottessa Mosfegh - although more of a novella. It's a good but gruesome read.

Small things like these

or

Invisible cities

Passing by Nella Larsen

Some great suggestions here, we have already read the Claire Keegan and Orbital, but will check out others.