Novellas

1700s

 * Candide by Voltaire (1759)
 * The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)

1800s

 * Mathilda by Mary Shelley (1820)
 * The Girl With the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac (1835)
 * Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol (1835)
 * Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol (1835)
 * A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (1839)
 * A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
 * The Murders of the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe (1841)
 * The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
 * Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (1853)
 * Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot (1857)
 * First Love by Ivan Turgenev (1860)
 * The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy (1863)
 * Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
 * Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (1867)
 * The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1870)
 * The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
 * The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (1886)


 * The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev (1871)
 * Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (1873)
 * Daisy Miller by Henry James (1878)
 * The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (1887)
 * Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant (1887)
 * Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1888)
 * Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1888)
 * The Devil by Leo Tolstoy (1889)
 * Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant (1890)
 * The Duel by Anton Chekov (1891)
 * The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
 * Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy (1895)
 * The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895)
 * The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898)
 * The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
 * Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

1900s

 * The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
 * The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
 * Botchan by Natsume Soseki (1906)
 * The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain (1908)
 * The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad (1909)
 * Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (1909)

1910s

 * Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
 * Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
 * The Dead by James Joyce (1914)
 * The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)

1920s

 * Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
 * The Fox by D.H. Lawrence (1922)
 * Amok by Stefan Zweig (1922)
 * Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig (1922)
 * Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
 * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
 * Fear by Stefan Zweig (1925)
 * Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (1926)
 * Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (1927)
 * Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (1928)
 * A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)

1930s

 * At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1931)
 * Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933)
 * The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
 * Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1937)
 * Anthem by Ayn Rand (1937)
 * Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
 * Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
 * The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)

1940s

 * Chess by Stefan Zweig (1941)
 * The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
 * And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac (1945)
 * Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
 * Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
 * The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947)
 * The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (1948)
 * Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1949)
 * Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar (1949)

1950s

 * The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1951)
 * The Ballad of Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (1951)
 * The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
 * The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1952)
 * Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
 * The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett (1953)
 * Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
 * Junky by William S. Burroughs (1953)
 * Queer by William S. Burroughs (1953)
 * Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)
 * Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)
 * Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (1956)
 * The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki (1956)
 * No One Writes the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1957)
 * The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouc (1958)

1960s

 * Night by Elie Wiesel (1960)
 * A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan (1961)
 * Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan (1961)
 * The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)
 * A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
 * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)
 * The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg (1963)
 * The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima (1963)
 * In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (1964)
 * The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)
 * The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1968)
 * Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (1968)
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski (1969)
 * Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)Dream_Story.jpg
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1970s

 * Dark Spring by Unica Zurn (1970)
 * The White Ship by Chingiz Aimatov (1970)
 * Post Office by Charles Bukowski (1971)
 * Flats/Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer (1971-4)
 * Love by Angela Carter (1971)
 * Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford (1972)
 * The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972)
 * Motorman by David Ohle (1972)
 * A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (1972)
 * Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)
 * Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1973)
 * The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino (1973)
 * Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (1973)
 * Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson (1973)
 * Telegram by Putu Wijaya (1973)
 * The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll (1974)
 * Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee (1974)
 * Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel by Richard Brautigan (1975)
 * For Love of Norway by Pal Espolin Johnson (1975)
 * Travesty by John Hawkes (1976)
 * Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (1976)
 * Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig (1976)
 * P's Three Women by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes (1977)
 * Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette (1977)
 * The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)The_Hour_of_the_Star.jpg
 * The Painter of Sings by R.K. Narayan (1977)
 * Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe (1977)
 * A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis (1978)
 * Soumchi by Amos Oz (1978)
 * Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick (1979)
 * Volcano by Shusaku Endo (1979)

1980s

 * The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin (1980)
 * A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
 * A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hirsal (1980)
 * Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1981)
 * Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark (1981)
 * Concrete by Thomas Bernhard (1982)
 * So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan (1982)
 * The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola (1982)
 * The Assault by Harry Mulisch (1982)
 * A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)Isle_of_Dreams.jpg
 * The Wine of Astonishment by Earl Lovelace (1982)
 * A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan (1983)
 * Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino (1983)
 * The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick (1983)
 * Alladin's Problem by Ernst Junger (1984)
 * The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1984)
 * In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom (1984)
 * The Tenth Man by Graham Greene (1985)
 * Isle of Dreams by Hino Keizo (1985)
 * Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas by Can Xue (1983-6)
 * Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (1985)
 * The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz (1985)
 * The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs (1986)
 * In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster (1987)
 * The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind (1987)Mister_Blue.jpg
 * Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988)
 * The Swordfish by Hugo Claus (1989)
 * Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin (1989)
 * Ordinary Love by Jane Smiley (1989)
 * Good Will by Jane Smiley (1989)

1990s

 * Kaddish for an Uborn Child by Imre Kertesz (1990)
 * The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (1991)
 * Chaos and All That by Lui Sola (1991)
 * South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami(1992)
 * Babyfucker by Urs Allemann (1992)
 * The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adai (1992)
 * Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt (1992)
 * The Other City by Michal Ajvaz (1993)
 * Loving Sabotage by Amelie Nothomb (1993)
 * The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo (1993)Of_Love_and_Other_Demons.jpg
 * The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett (1994)
 * Whatever by Michel Houllebecq (1994)
 * Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad (1994)
 * Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1994)
 * Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi (1994)
 * Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet (1995)
 * Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz (1995)
 * I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Kim Young-ha (1996)
 * Escape Hatch by Vladimir Makanin (1996)
 * The Diary of Mr Pinke by Ewald Murrer (1995)
 * Reader's Block by David Markson (1996)
 * The Actual by Saul Bellow (1997)
 * A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock (1998)
 * Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret (1998)
 * Honk if you Love Aphrodite by Daniel Evan Weiss (1999)
 * The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira (1999)
 * Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (1999)Earth_and_Ashes.jpg

2000s

 * In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina (2000)
 * Kafka's Leopards by Moacyr Scliar (2000)
 * The Colors of Infamy by Albert Cossery (2000)
 * The Body Artist by Don Delillo (2001)
 * Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001)
 * Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi (2001)
 * The Dying Animal by Phillip Roth (2001)
 * Inez by Carlos Fuentes (2001)
 * Bait by David Albahari (2001)
 * Europeana by Patrik Ourednik (2001)
 * Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki (2001)
 * All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulová (2002)
 * Conversation with Spinoza by Goce Smilevski (2002)
 * In the Flesh by Christa Wolf (2002)
 * Agape Agape by William Gaddis (2002)
 * The Blue Fox by Sjon (2003)The_Blue_Fox.jpg
 * Piano by Jean Echenoz (2003)
 * The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003)
 * The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck (2004)
 * Moving Parts by Magdalena Tulli (2004)
 * Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz (2005)
 * Everyman by Phillip Roth (2006)
 * Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (2006)
 * The Hermaphrodite by Daniel Grandbois (2009)
 * The North of God by Steve Stern (2008)
 * Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (2009)
 * The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre (2008)
 * The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust (2009)
 * The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz (2009)

2010s

 * The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg (2010)
 * Lightning by Jean Echenoz (2010)
 * Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2011)
 * Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2011)