During the school year, reading for pleasure is often my last priority, if it even makes the list. However, this year one of my resolutions was to read 30 minutes for fun every day. (I heard that if I do this, I should be able to read one to two books a month, so fingers crossed it works!)

Even so, it can be a challenge to find thirty minutes of spare time some days. So today I’ve rounded up five books that are perfect for reading intermittently throughout the semester. 

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There’s nothing more frustrating than putting a book aside for a few weeks (or months, whoops) and coming back to it only to realize that you’ve forgotten everything you’ve read so far. With these books for busy people, there’ll be no more of that. These selections are styled so that you will be able to dive back into them with relative ease.

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The Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel, by David Levithan

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, I can’t think of a more appropriate title than David Levithan’s A Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel.

Told through prose selections of varying lengths for each letter of the alphabet, Levithan retells one couple’s love story, but with a twist: their story is told alphabetically rather than chronologically. As I was reading it, I found myself feeling on one page all the warm, fuzzy feelings I’ve felt in my one relationship only to turn to the next letter and experience all of my worst fears in love placed before me.