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Novellas

Novellas
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • First Love by Ivan Turgenev
  • Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
  • Billy Budd
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Candide
  • Cannery Row
  • Junky
  • Master and Man
  • The Metamorphosis
  • Miss Lonelyhearts
  • Botchan
  • Dream Story
    Dream Story
  • The Horla
  • Looking Backward
  • Child of God
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • Daisy Miller
  • Death in Venice
  • Nausea
  • Night
  • No One Writes the Colonel
  • Notes From Underground
  • Mathilda
  • Pedro Paramo
  • Snow Country
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun
  • Diary of a Madman
  • Dusklands
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Ethan Frome
  • Everyman
  • Of Mice and Men
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Outer Dark
  • Scenes of Clerical Life
  • The Ballad of Sad Cafe
  • The Dying Animal
  • The Fox
  • The Girl With the Golden Eyes
  • Seize the Day
  • Siddhartha
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Story of the Eye
  • The Cossacks
  • The Crying of Lot 49
  • The Dead
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
  • The Loved One
  • The Pathseeker
  • The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
  • The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
  • Taras Bulba
  • The Awakening
  • The Big Sleep
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Devil
  • The Double
  • The Eternal Husband
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Tenth Man
  • The Unnamable
  • Thousand Cranes
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Stranger
  • The Lemoine Affair
  • The Lifted Veil
  • The Man Who Would be King
  • The Stranger
  • The Subterraneans
  • The Time Machine
  • The Torrents of Spring
  • A Hero of Our Time
  • Alien Hearts
  • Giovanni's Room
  • Pierre and Jean
  • The Murders of the Rue Morgue
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • The Pearl
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • The Turn of the Screw
    The Old Man and the sea
  • Three Lives
  • Too Loud a Solitude
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • The Duel
  • The Actual
  • The Body Artist
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies
  • The Key
  • The Mysterious Stranger
  • Therese Raquin

Contemporary Novellas

100 Contemporary Novellas

1970s

  • Dark Spring by Unica Zurn (1970)
  • The White Ship by Chingiz Aimatov
  • Flats/Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • For Love of Norway by Pal Espolin Johnson (1975)
  • Travesty by John Hawkes (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
  • The Painter of Sings by R.K. Narayan (1977)
  • Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe (1977)
  • A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (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)
  • 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)
    Isle of Dreams
  • The Wine of Astonishment by Earl Lovelace
  • A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan (1983)
  • Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
  • The Cannival Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick (1983)
  • Alladin's Problem by Ernst Junger
  • The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1984)
  • In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom (1984)
  • Isle of Dreams by Hino Keizo (1985)
  • Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas by Can Xue
  • Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (1985)
  • The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz (1985)
  • In the Country of Last Things (1987)
  • The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind (1987)
    Mister Blue
  • Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988)
  • The Swordfish by Hugo Claus (1989)
  • Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin (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)
  • Babyfucker by Urs Allemann (1992)
  • The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adai
  • Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
  • 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
  • The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett (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
  • The Diary of Mr Pinke by Ewald Murrer
  • Reader's Block by David Markson
  • A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock (1998)
  • Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
  • 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

2000s

  • In Her Absense by Antonio Munoz Molina (2000)
  • Kafka's Leopards by Moacyr Scliar (2000)
  • The Colors of Infamy by Albert Cossery (2000)
  • Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001)
  • Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi (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
  • The Blue Fox by Sjon (2003)
    The Blue Fox
  • Piano by Jean Echenoz (2003)
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003)
  • The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Moving Parts by Magdalena Tulli
  • Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz (2005)
  • Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
  • The Hermaphrodite by Daniel Grandbois
  • The North of God by Steve Stern
  • Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (2009)
  • The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre

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)
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