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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)
    Dream Story
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
  • The Stranger
  • The Old Man and the sea

Contemporary Novellas[]

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 Hour of the Star
  • 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)
    Isle of Dreams
  • 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)
    Mister Blue
  • 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)
    Of Love and Other Demons
  • 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)
    Earth and Ashes

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)
    The Blue Fox
  • 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)
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