I don't believe it! only two suggestions so far...

dear vika! I wonder if people didn't respond for the same reasons I didn't: I couldn't think of anything recently-published that I'd read and enjoyed, that was about 200 pages.

Dunno about others here, but I am trying to catch up on a HUGE backlog of backlists....So many books published in the last several centuries that I want to read, and even in the last few decades, that I haven't been keeping up-to-date with new stuff.

But books I've read and enjoyed that aren't that recent, that I would recommend:

The Good Husband by Gail Godwin (novel about two couples and how their lives intersect - I'm not doing it justice with this very brief synopsis - the beauty of it is in the character arcs and the writing)

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (autobiographical novel with many "ah-ha!" moments)

and, very recent publication but longer than 200 pages: McCarthy's Bar, by Pete McCarthy (very funny travelogue about West Ireland)

Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.