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)

  

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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)