Novellas

Novellas

Novellas

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 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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)
• 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)