Books like The Nutcracker
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Nutcracker is 75 pages, about 1 hour 23 minutes at 250 words a minute.
10 books to read next
How long each takes
Ballet Kitty 35 min 
Swan Lake 1.5 h 
Grimm's Fairy Tales 5.6 h 
The Gilded Bat 1.2 h 
The Little Match Girl 33 min 
The Christmas Day Kitten 35 min 
Rhyme Stew 1.5 h 
The Dog Who Saved Christmas 2.0 h 
Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree 34 min 
The Rose and the Ring 2.8 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.