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==Novellas== | |||
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=== 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) | |||
*T''he 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 === | ||
[[File: | *''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)[[File:Dream_Story.jpg|right|226x226px]] | |||
*[[File:One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*[[File:The_Sailor_Who_Fell_From_Grace_With_the_Sea.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*[[File:The_Stranger.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*[[File:The_Old_Man_and_the_sea.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
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==Contemporary Novellas== | ==Contemporary Novellas== | ||
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===1970s=== | |||
*''Dark Spring'' by Unica Zurn (1970) | |||
*The White Ship by Chingiz Aimatov | *''The White Ship ''by Chingiz Aimatov (1970) | ||
*Flats/Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer | *''Post Office'' by Charles Bukowski (1971) | ||
*Love by Angela Carter (1971) | *''Flats/Quake'' by Rudolph Wurlitzer (1971-4) | ||
*Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford (1972) | *''Love ''by Angela Carter (1971) | ||
*The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) | *''Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine ''by Stanley Crawford (1972) | ||
*Motorman by David Ohle (1972) | *''The Summer Book'' by Tove Jansson (1972) | ||
*A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (1972) | *''Motorman'' by David Ohle (1972) | ||
*Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972) | *''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' by Peter Handke (1972) | ||
*Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1973) | *''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972) | ||
*Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson (1973) | *''Asleep in the Sun'' by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1973) | ||
*Telegram by Putu Wijaya (1973) | *''The Castle of Crossed Destinies ''by Italo Calvino (1973) | ||
*The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll (1974) | *''Child of God ''by Cormac McCarthy (1973) | ||
*For Love of Norway by Pal Espolin Johnson (1975) | *''Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'' by B.S. Johnson (1973) | ||
*Travesty by John Hawkes (1976) | *''Telegram'' by Putu Wijaya (1973) | ||
*Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig (1976) | *''The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum'' by Heinrich Boll (1974) | ||
*P's Three Women by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes (1977) | *''Dusklands'' by J. M. Coetzee (1974) | ||
*Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette (1977) | *''Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel ''by Richard Brautigan (1975) | ||
*The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977) | *''For Love of Norway'' by Pal Espolin Johnson (1975) | ||
*The Painter of Sings by R.K. Narayan (1977) | *''Travesty ''by John Hawkes (1976) | ||
*Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe (1977) | *''Too Loud a Solitude'' by Bohumil Hrabal (1976) | ||
*A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1978) | *''Journey into the Past'' by Stefan Zweig (1976) | ||
*Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick (1979) | *''P's Three Women'' by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes (1977) | ||
*Volcano by Shusaku Endo (1979) | *''Fatale'' by Jean-Patrick Manchette (1977) | ||
*''The Hour of the Star'' by Clarice Lispector (1977)[[File:The_Hour_of_the_Star.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''The Painter of Sings'' by R.K. Narayan (1977) | |||
*A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980) | *''Secret Rendezvous'' by Kobo Abe (1977) | ||
*A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hirsal (1980) | *''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' by Danilo Kis (1978) | ||
*Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark (1981) | *''Soumchi'' by Amos Oz (1978) | ||
*Concrete by Thomas Bernhard (1982) | *''Sleepless Nights'' by Elizabeth Hardwick (1979) | ||
*So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan (1982) | *''Volcano'' by Shusaku Endo (1979) | ||
*The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola (1982) | ===1980s=== | ||
*The Assault by Harry Mulisch (1982) | *''The Viceroy of Ouidah'' by Bruce Chatwin (1980) | ||
*The Wine of Astonishment by Earl Lovelace | *''A Month in the Country'' by J. L. Carr (1980) | ||
*A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan (1983) | *''A Bohemian Youth ''by Josef Hirsal (1980) | ||
*Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino | *''Chronicle of a Death Foretold ''by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1981) | ||
*The | *''Loitering With Intent'' by Muriel Spark (1981) | ||
*Alladin's Problem by Ernst Junger | *''Concrete'' by Thomas Bernhard (1982) | ||
*The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1984) | *''So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away'' by Richard Brautigan (1982) | ||
*In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom (1984) | *''The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town'' by Amos Tutuola (1982) | ||
*Isle of Dreams by Hino Keizo (1985) | *''The Assault'' by Harry Mulisch (1982) | ||
*Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas by Can Xue | *''A Pale View of Hills ''by Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)[[File:Isle_of_Dreams.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
*Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (1985) | *''The Wine of Astonishment'' by Earl Lovelace (1982) | ||
*The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz (1985) | *''A Tiger for Malgudi ''by R.K. Narayan (1983) | ||
*In the Country of Last Things (1987) | *''Mr. Palomar ''by Italo Calvino (1983) | ||
*The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind (1987) | *''The Cannibal Galaxy ''by Cynthia Ozick (1983) | ||
*Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988) | *''Alladin's Problem'' by Ernst Junger (1984) | ||
*The Swordfish by Hugo Claus (1989) | *''The Lover'' by Marguerite Duras (1984) | ||
*Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin (1989) | *''In the Dutch Mountains'' by Cees Nooteboom (1984) | ||
''' | *''The Tenth Man'' by Graham Greene (1985) | ||
*Kaddish for an Uborn Child by Imre Kertesz (1990) | *''Isle of Dreams'' by Hino Keizo (1985) | ||
*The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (1991) | *''Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas'' by Can Xue (1983-6) | ||
*Chaos and All That by Lui Sola (1991) | *''Stone in a Landslide'' by Maria Barbal (1985) | ||
*Babyfucker by Urs Allemann (1992) | *''The Day the Leader Was Killed'' by Naguib Mahfouz (1985) | ||
*The Death of the Author by Gilbert Adai | *''The Cat Inside'' by William S. Burroughs (1986) | ||
*Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt | *''In the Country of Last Things'' by Paul Auster (1987) | ||
*The Other City by Michal Ajvaz (1993) | *''The Pigeon ''by Patrick Suskind (1987)[[File:Mister_Blue.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
*Loving Sabotage by Amelie Nothomb (1993) | *''Kitchen'' by Banana Yoshimoto (1988) | ||
*The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo (1993) | *''The Swordfish'' by Hugo Claus (1989) | ||
*The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett (1994) | *''Mister Blue'' by Jacques Poulin (1989) | ||
*Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad (1994) | *''Ordinary Love ''by Jane Smiley (1989) | ||
*Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1994) | *''Good Will'' by Jane Smiley (1989) | ||
*Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi (1994) | ===1990s=== | ||
*Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet (1995) | *''Kaddish for an Uborn Child ''by Imre Kertesz (1990) | ||
*Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz (1995) | *''The Following Story'' by Cees Nooteboom (1991) | ||
*I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Kim Young-ha (1996) | *''Chaos and All That'' by Lui Sola (1991) | ||
*Escape Hatch by Vladimir Makanin | *''South of the Border, West of the Sun'' by Haruki Murakami(1992) | ||
*The Diary of Mr Pinke by Ewald Murrer | *''Babyfucker ''by Urs Allemann (1992) | ||
*Reader's Block by David Markson | *''The Death of the Author'' by Gilbert Adai (1992) | ||
*A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock (1998) | *''Angels and Insects'' by A.S. Byatt (1992) | ||
*Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret | *''The Other City'' by Michal Ajvaz (1993) | ||
*Honk if you Love Aphrodite by Daniel Evan Weiss (1999) | *''Loving Sabotage'' by Amelie Nothomb (1993) | ||
*The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira (1999) | *''The Marx Family Saga'' by Juan Goytisolo (1993)[[File:Of_Love_and_Other_Demons.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
*Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (1999) | *''The Crime Studio'' by Steve Aylett (1994) | ||
*''Whatever'' by Michel Houllebecq (1994) | |||
*''Shyness and Dignity'' by Dag Solstad (1994) | |||
*Kafka's Leopards by Moacyr Scliar (2000) | *''Of Love and Other Demons'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1994) | ||
*The Colors of Infamy by Albert | *''Pereira Declares'' by Antonio Tabucchi (1994) | ||
*Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001) | *''Phosphor in Dreamland'' by Rikki Ducornet (1995) | ||
*Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi (2001) | *''Panther in the Basement'' by Amos Oz (1995) | ||
*Inez by Carlos Fuentes (2001) | *''I Have the Right to Destroy Myself ''by Kim Young-ha (1996) | ||
*Bait by David Albahari (2001) | *''Escape Hatch'' by Vladimir Makanin (1996) | ||
*Europeana by Patrik Ourednik (2001) | *''The Diary of Mr Pinke'' by Ewald Murrer (1995) | ||
*Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki (2001) | *''Reader's Block'' by David Markson (1996) | ||
*All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulová (2002) | *''The Actual'' by Saul Bellow (1997) | ||
*Conversation with Spinoza by Goce Smilevski (2002) | *''A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family ''by Peter Dimock (1998) | ||
*In the Flesh by Christa Wolf (2002) | *''Kneller's Happy Campers'' by Etgar Keret (1998) | ||
*Agape Agape by William Gaddis | *''Honk if you Love Aphrodite'' by Daniel Evan Weiss (1999) | ||
*The Blue Fox by Sjon (2003) | *''The Literary Conference'' by Cesar Aira (1999) | ||
*Piano by Jean Echenoz (2003) | *''Earth and Ashes'' by Atiq Rahimi (1999)[[File:Earth_and_Ashes.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
*The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003) | ===2000s=== | ||
*The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck | *''In Her Absence'' by Antonio Munoz Molina (2000) | ||
*Moving Parts by Magdalena Tulli | *''Kafka's Leopards ''by Moacyr Scliar (2000) | ||
*Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz (2005) | *''The Colors of Infamy'' by Albert Cossery (2000) | ||
*Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra | *''The Body Artist'' by Don Delillo (2001) | ||
*The Hermaphrodite by Daniel Grandbois | *''Tales of Galicia'' by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001) | ||
*The North of God by Steve Stern | *''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)[[File:The_Blue_Fox.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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) | *Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (2009) | ||
*The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre | *''The Waitress Was New'' by Dominique Fabre (2008) | ||
''' | *''The Lemoine Affair ''by Marcel Proust (2009) | ||
*The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg (2010) | *''The Pathseeker'' by Imre Kertesz (2009) | ||
*Lightning by Jean Echenoz (2010) | ===2010s=== | ||
*Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2011) | *''The Brothers'' by Asko Sahlberg (2010) | ||
*Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2011) | *''Lightning ''by Jean Echenoz (2010) | ||
*''Train Dreams'' by Denis Johnson (2011) | |||
*''Down the Rabbit Hole'' by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2011) | |||
[[Category:Recommended Reading]] | |||
Latest revision as of 12:44, 13 November 2017
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)
Contemporary Novellas
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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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)
- 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)
