Novellas

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

  

• 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

  

• 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 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 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

  

• 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 (1970)
• 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)
• 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 Painter of Sings by R.K. Narayan (1977)
• Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe (1977)
• A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis (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)

  

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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 (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (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)
• 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)

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)