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==Novellas==
==Novellas==
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*''A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens
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*''A Clockwork Orange'' by Anthony Burgess
 
*''A Room of One's Own'' by Virginia Woolf
=== 1700s ===
*''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell
*''Candide ''by Voltaire (1759)
*''Fahrenheit 451'' by Ray Bradbury
*''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
*''First Love'' by Ivan Turgenev
 
*''Heart of a Dog ''by Mikhail Bulgakov
=== 1800s ===
*''Heart of Darkness'' by Joseph Conrad
*''Mathilda'' by Mary Shelley (1820)
*''A Pale View of Hills ''by Kazuo Ishiguro
*''The Girl With the Golden Eyes'' by Honore de Balzac (1835)
*''Around the World in 80 Days ''by Jules Verne
*''Diary of a Madman'' by Nikolai Gogol (1835)
*''At the Mountains of Madness'' by H.P. Lovecraft
*''Taras Bulba'' by Nikolai Gogol (1835)
*''Bartleby the Scrivener'' by Herman Melville
*''A Hero of Our Time'' by Mikhail Lermontov (1839)
*''Billy Budd ''by Herman Melville
*''A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens (1843)
*''The Call of the Wild'' by Jack London
*''The Murders of the Rue Morgue'' by Edgar Allen Poe (1841)
*''Candide ''by Voltaire
*''The Double'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
*''Cannery Row'' by John Steinbeck
*''Bartleby the Scrivener'' by Herman Melville (1853)
*''Junky'' by William S. Burroughs
*''Scenes of Clerical Life ''by George Eliot (1857)
*''Master and Man'' by Leo Tolstoy
*''First Love'' by Ivan Turgenev (1860)
*''The Metamorphosis'' by Franz Kafka
*''The Cossacks'' by Leo Tolstoy (1863)
*''Miss Lonelyhearts'' by Nathanael West
*''Notes From Underground'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
*''Botchan ''by Natsume Soseki
*''Therese Raquin ''by Emile Zola (1867)
*''Dream Story'' by Arthur Schnitzler[[File:Dream_Story.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Eternal Husband ''by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1870)
*''The Horla'' by Guy de Maupassant
*''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
*''Looking Backward ''by Edward Bellamy
*''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' by Leo Tolstoy (1886)
*''Child of God ''by Cormac McCarthy
 
*''Chronicle of a Death Foretold ''by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*''The Torrents of Spring'' by Ivan Turgenev (1871)
*''Daisy Miller ''by Henry James
*''Around the World in 80 Days ''by Jules Verne (1873)
*''Death in Venice ''by Thomas Mann
*''Daisy Miller ''by Henry James (1878)
*''Nausea'' by Jean-Paul Sartre
*''The Horla'' by Guy de Maupassant (1887)
*''Night ''by Elie Wiesel
*''Pierre and Jean'' by Guy de Maupassant (1887)
*''No One Writes the Colonel ''by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*''Looking Backward ''by Edward Bellamy (1888)
*''Notes From Underground'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*''Billy Budd ''by Herman Melville (1888)
*''Mathilda'' by Mary Shelley
*The Devil by Leo Tolstoy (1889)
*''Pedro Paramo ''by Juan Rulfo
*''Alien Hearts'' by Guy de Maupassant (1890)
*''Snow Country ''by Yasunari Kawabata
*''The Duel ''by Anton Chekov (1891)
*''South of the Border, West of the Sun'' by Haruki Murakami
*''The Red Badge of Courage'' by Stephen Crane (1895)
*''Diary of a Madman'' by Nikolai Gogol
*''Master and Man'' by Leo Tolstoy (1895)
*''Dusklands'' by J. M. Coetzee[[File:One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Time Machine'' by H. G. Wells (1895)
*''Ethan Frome'' by Edith Wharton
*''The Turn of the Screw'' by Henry James (1898)
*''Everyman'' by Phillip Roth
*''The Awakening'' by Kate Chopin (1899)
*''Of Mice and Men'' by John Steinbeck
*''Heart of Darkness'' by Joseph Conrad (1899)
*''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 
*''Outer Dark ''by Cormac McCarthy
=== 1900s ===
*''Scenes of Clerical Life ''by George Eliot
*''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
*''The Ballad of Sad Cafe'' by Carson McCullers
*T''he Call of the Wild'' by Jack London (1903)
*''The Dying Animal'' by Phillip Roth
*''Botchan ''by Natsume Soseki (1906)
*''The Fox ''by D.H. Lawrence
*''The Mysterious Stranger ''by Mark Twain (1908)
*''The Girl With the Golden Eyes'' by Honore de Balzac
*''The Secret Sharer'' by Joseph Conrad (1909)
*''Seize the Day ''by Saul Bellow
*''Three Lives'' by Gertrude Stein (1909)
*''Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse
 
*''Slaughterhouse-Five'' by Kurt Vonnegut
=== 1910s ===
*''Story of the Eye ''by Georges Bataille
*''Ethan Frome'' by Edith Wharton (1911)
*''The Cossacks'' by Leo Tolstoy
*''Death in Venice ''by Thomas Mann (1912)
*''The Crying of Lot 49'' by Thomas Pynchon
*''The Dead ''by James Joyce (1914)
*''The Dead ''by James Joyce
*''The Metamorphosis'' by Franz Kafka (1915)
*''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' by Leo Tolstoy[[File:The_Sailor_Who_Fell_From_Grace_With_the_Sea.jpg|right|150px]]
 
*''The Loved One'' by Evelyn Waugh
=== 1920s ===
*The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz
*''Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse (1922)
*''The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea'' by Yukio Mishima
*''The Fox ''by D.H. Lawrence (1922)
*''The Secret Sharer'' by Joseph Conrad
*''Amok'' by Stefan Zweig (1922)
*''Taras Bulba'' by Nikolai Gogol
*''Letter from an Unknown Woman ''by Stefan Zweig (1922)
*''The Awakening'' by Kate Chopin
*''Heart of a Dog ''by Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
*''The Big Sleep ''by Raymond Chandler
*''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
*''The Catcher in the Rye ''by J. D. Salinger
*''Fear'' by Stefan Zweig (1925)
*''The Devil ''by Leo Tolstoy
*''Dream Story'' by Arthur Schnitzler (1926)
*''The Double'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*''Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman ''by Stefan Zweig (1927)
*''The Eternal Husband ''by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*''Story of the Eye ''by Georges Bataille (1928)
*''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*''A Room of One's Own'' by Virginia Woolf (1929)
*''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' by Robert Louis Stevenson
 
*''The Tenth Man'' by Graham Greene
=== 1930s ===
*''The Unnamable'' by Samuel Beckett
*''At the Mountains of Madness'' by H.P. Lovecraft (1931)
*''Thousand Cranes ''by Yasunari Kawabata
*''Miss Lonelyhearts'' by Nathanael West (1933)
*''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' by Arthur Conan Doyle[[File:The_Stranger.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Postman Always Rings Twice ''by James M. Cain (1934)
*''The Lemoine Affair ''by Marcel Proust
*''Snow Country ''by Yasunari Kawabata (1937)
*''The Lifted Veil'' by George Eliot
*''Anthem'' by Ayn Rand (1937)
*''The Man Who Would be King ''by Rudyard Kipling
*''Of Mice and Men'' by John Steinbeck (1937)
*''The Stranger ''by Albert Camus
*''Nausea'' by Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
*''The Subterraneans'' by Jack Kerouc
*''The Big Sleep ''by Raymond Chandler (1939)
*''The Time Machine'' by H. G. Wells
 
*''The Torrents of Spring'' by Ivan Turgenev
=== 1940s ===
*''A Hero of Our Time'' by Mikhail Lermontov
*''Chess'' by Stefan Zweig (1941)
*''Alien Hearts'' by Guy de Maupassant
*''The Stranger ''by Albert Camus (1942)
*''Giovanni's Room ''by James Baldwin
*''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks ''by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac (1945)
*''Pierre and Jean'' by Guy de Maupassant
*''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell (1945)
*''The Murders of the Rue Morgue'' by Edgar Allen Poe
*''Cannery Row'' by John Steinbeck (1945)
*''The Old Man and the Sea ''by Ernest Hemingway
*''The Pearl ''by John Steinbeck (1947)
*''The Pearl ''by John Steinbeck
*''The Loved One'' by Evelyn Waugh (1948)
*''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*''Confessions of a Mask ''by Yukio Mishima (1949)
*''The Postman Always Rings Twice ''by James M. Cain
*''Khirbet Khizeh ''by S. Yizhar (1949)
*''The Turn of the Screw'' by Henry James[[File:The_Old_Man_and_the_sea.jpg|right|150px]]
 
*''Three Lives'' by Gertrude Stein
=== 1950s ===
*''Too Loud a Solitude'' by Bohumil Hrabal
*''The Old Man and the Sea ''by Ernest Hemingway (1951)
*''The Red Badge of Courage'' by Stephen Crane
*''The Ballad of Sad Cafe'' by Carson McCullers (1951)
*''The Duel ''by Anton Chekov
*''The Catcher in the Rye ''by J. D. Salinger (1951)
*''The Actual'' by Saul Bellow
*''The Motorcycle Diaries'' by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1952)
*''The Body Artist'' by Don Delillo
*''Thousand Cranes ''by Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
*''The Castle of Crossed Destinies ''by Italo Calvino
*''The Unnamable'' by Samuel Beckett (1953)
*''The Key ''by Junichiro Tanizaki
*''Fahrenheit 451'' by Ray Bradbury (1953)
*''The Mysterious Stranger ''by Mark Twain
*''Junky'' by William S. Burroughs (1953)
*''Therese Raquin ''by Emile Zola
*''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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*''Dark Spring'' by Unica Zurn (1970)
*''Dark Spring'' by Unica Zurn (1970)
*''The White Ship ''by Chingiz Aimatov (1970)
*''The White Ship ''by Chingiz Aimatov (1970)
*''Post Office'' by Charles Bukowski (1971)
*''Flats/Quake'' by Rudolph Wurlitzer (1971-4)
*''Flats/Quake'' by Rudolph Wurlitzer (1971-4)
*''Love ''by Angela Carter (1971)
*''Love ''by Angela Carter (1971)
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*''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)
*''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)
*''Asleep in the Sun'' by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1973)
*''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)
*''Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'' by B.S. Johnson (1973)
*''Telegram'' by Putu Wijaya (1973)
*''Telegram'' by Putu Wijaya (1973)
*''The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum'' by Heinrich Boll (1974)
*''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)
*''For Love of Norway'' by Pal Espolin Johnson (1975)
*''Travesty ''by John Hawkes (1976)
*''Travesty ''by John Hawkes (1976)
*''Too Loud a Solitude'' by Bohumil Hrabal (1976)
*''Journey into the Past'' by Stefan Zweig (1976)
*''Journey into the Past'' by Stefan Zweig (1976)
*''P's Three Women'' by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes (1977)
*''P's Three Women'' by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes (1977)
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*''Secret Rendezvous'' by Kobo Abe (1977)
*''Secret Rendezvous'' by Kobo Abe (1977)
*''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' by Danilo Kis (1978)
*''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' by Danilo Kis (1978)
*''Soumchi'' by Amos Oz (1978)
*''Sleepless Nights'' by Elizabeth Hardwick (1979)
*''Sleepless Nights'' by Elizabeth Hardwick (1979)
*''Volcano'' by Shusaku Endo (1979)
*''Volcano'' by Shusaku Endo (1979)
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*''A Month in the Country'' by J. L. Carr (1980)
*''A Month in the Country'' by J. L. Carr (1980)
*''A Bohemian Youth ''by Josef Hirsal (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)
*''Loitering With Intent'' by Muriel Spark (1981)
*''Concrete'' by Thomas Bernhard (1982)
*''Concrete'' by Thomas Bernhard (1982)
*''So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away'' by Richard Brautigan (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 Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town'' by Amos Tutuola (1982)
*''The Assault'' by Harry Mulisch (1982)[[File:Isle_of_Dreams.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Assault'' by Harry Mulisch (1982)
*''A Pale View of Hills ''by Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)[[File:Isle_of_Dreams.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Wine of Astonishment'' by Earl Lovelace (1982)
*''The Wine of Astonishment'' by Earl Lovelace (1982)
*''A Tiger for Malgudi ''by R.K. Narayan (1983)
*''A Tiger for Malgudi ''by R.K. Narayan (1983)
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*''The Lover'' by Marguerite Duras (1984)
*''The Lover'' by Marguerite Duras (1984)
*''In the Dutch Mountains'' by Cees Nooteboom (1984)
*''In the Dutch Mountains'' by Cees Nooteboom (1984)
*''The Tenth Man'' by Graham Greene (1985)
*''Isle of Dreams'' by Hino Keizo (1985)
*''Isle of Dreams'' by Hino Keizo (1985)
*''Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas'' by Can Xue (1983-6)
*''Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas'' by Can Xue (1983-6)
*''Stone in a Landslide'' by Maria Barbal (1985)
*''Stone in a Landslide'' by Maria Barbal (1985)
*The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz (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)
*''In the Country of Last Things'' by Paul Auster (1987)
*''The Pigeon ''by Patrick Suskind (1987)[[File:Mister_Blue.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Pigeon ''by Patrick Suskind (1987)[[File:Mister_Blue.jpg|right|150px]]
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*''The Swordfish'' by Hugo Claus (1989)
*''The Swordfish'' by Hugo Claus (1989)
*''Mister Blue'' by Jacques Poulin (1989)
*''Mister Blue'' by Jacques Poulin (1989)
*''Ordinary Love ''by Jane Smiley (1989)
*''Good Will'' by Jane Smiley (1989)
===1990s===
===1990s===
*''Kaddish for an Uborn Child ''by Imre Kertesz (1990)
*''Kaddish for an Uborn Child ''by Imre Kertesz (1990)
*''The Following Story'' by Cees Nooteboom (1991)
*''The Following Story'' by Cees Nooteboom (1991)
*''Chaos and All That'' by Lui Sola (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)
*''Babyfucker ''by Urs Allemann (1992)
*''The Death of the Author'' by Gilbert Adai (1992)
*''The Death of the Author'' by Gilbert Adai (1992)
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*''The Marx Family Saga'' by Juan Goytisolo (1993)[[File:Of_Love_and_Other_Demons.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Marx Family Saga'' by Juan Goytisolo (1993)[[File:Of_Love_and_Other_Demons.jpg|right|150px]]
*''The Crime Studio'' by Steve Aylett (1994)
*''The Crime Studio'' by Steve Aylett (1994)
*''Whatever'' by Michel Houllebecq (1994)
*''Shyness and Dignity'' by Dag Solstad (1994)
*''Shyness and Dignity'' by Dag Solstad (1994)
*''Of Love and Other Demons'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1994)
*''Of Love and Other Demons'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1994)
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*''The Diary of Mr Pinke'' by Ewald Murrer (1995)
*''The Diary of Mr Pinke'' by Ewald Murrer (1995)
*''Reader's Block'' by David Markson (1996)
*''Reader's Block'' by David Markson (1996)
*''The Actual'' by Saul Bellow (1997)
*''A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family ''by Peter Dimock (1998)
*''A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family ''by Peter Dimock (1998)
*''Kneller's Happy Campers'' by Etgar Keret (1998)
*''Kneller's Happy Campers'' by Etgar Keret (1998)
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*''Kafka's Leopards ''by Moacyr Scliar (2000)
*''Kafka's Leopards ''by Moacyr Scliar (2000)
*''The Colors of Infamy'' by Albert Cossery (2000)
*''The Colors of Infamy'' by Albert Cossery (2000)
*''The Body Artist'' by Don Delillo (2001)
*''Tales of Galicia'' by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001)
*''Tales of Galicia'' by Andrzej Stasiuk (2001)
*''Beside the Sea'' by Veronique Olmi (2001)
*''Beside the Sea'' by Veronique Olmi (2001)
*''The Dying Animal'' by Phillip Roth (2001)
*''Inez'' by Carlos Fuentes (2001)
*''Inez'' by Carlos Fuentes (2001)
*''Bait'' by David Albahari (2001)
*''Bait'' by David Albahari (2001)
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*''Moving Parts'' by Magdalena Tulli (2004)
*''Moving Parts'' by Magdalena Tulli (2004)
*''Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest ''by Amos Oz (2005)
*''Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest ''by Amos Oz (2005)
*''Everyman'' by Phillip Roth (2006)
*''Bonsai'' by Alejandro Zambra (2006)
*''Bonsai'' by Alejandro Zambra (2006)
*''The Hermaphrodite ''by Daniel Grandbois (2009)
*''The Hermaphrodite ''by Daniel Grandbois (2009)
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*Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (2009)
*Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (2009)
*''The Waitress Was New'' by Dominique Fabre (2008)
*''The Waitress Was New'' by Dominique Fabre (2008)
*''The Lemoine Affair ''by Marcel Proust (2009)
*''The Pathseeker'' by Imre Kertesz (2009)
===2010s===
===2010s===
*''The Brothers'' by Asko Sahlberg (2010)
*''The Brothers'' by Asko Sahlberg (2010)
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*''Train Dreams'' by Denis Johnson (2011)
*''Train Dreams'' by Denis Johnson (2011)
*''Down the Rabbit Hole'' by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2011)
*''Down the Rabbit Hole'' by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2011)
[[Category:Recommended Reading]]

Latest revision as of 12:44, 13 November 2017

Novellas

Novellas
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

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100 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)