List of novellas

This is a list of novellas that have been recognised as the best examples of the genre. A novella is a fiction work longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.[1] It is generally thought to be between around 20,000 and 40,000 words in length.[2]

List of novellas

This list contains novellas that have been recognized as the best examples of the genre. The first table contains those books that are widely considered to be the best, through their appearance on multiple best-of lists.[3][4][5][6][7] The second table contains other notable novellas, that have appeared on only one best-of list.

Novellas that appear on multiple best-of lists
Title Author Published References
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 [3][4][6][7]
Billy Budd Herman Melville 1924 [4][7]
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 1958 [3][4]
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 [3][4][6]
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 [3][5]
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 [4][5]
Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 [5][7]
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 [4][5][6][7]
I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 [5][6]
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 [3][4][6][7]
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 [3][6]
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 [3][5][6][7]
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 [3][4]
The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 [3][4][5]
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 [4][7]
Other notable novellas
Title Author Published Reference
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 [5]
Seize the Day Saul Bellow 1956 [7]
The Awakening Kate Chopin 1899 [8]
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 [5]
I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem Maryse Conde 1992 [8]
Pafko at the Wall Don DeLillo 2001 [5]
The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1867 [7]
Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 [7]
Heartburn Nora Ephron 1986 [8]
The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald 1978 [8]
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 [7]
No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez 1961 [7]
The Tenth Man Graham Greene 1985 [5]
Phaniyamma M. K. Indira 1977 [8]
The Aspern Papers Henry James 1888 [7]
Daisy Miller Henry James 1879 [7]
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 [7]
The Summer Book Tove Jansson 1972 [8]
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1896 [8]
The Dead James Joyce 1914 [7]
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1959 [3]
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King 1982 [6]
The Sojourn Andrew Krivak 2011 [5]
Passing[9] Nella Larsen 1929 [4]
Quicksand (Larsen novel) Nella Larsen 1928 [8]
The Fifth Child Doris Lessing 1988 [8]
The Wife of Martin Guerre Janet Lewis 1941 [8]
The Photograph Penelope Lively 2003 [5]
The Shadow Over Innsmouth H.P. Lovecraft 1931 [5]
Fly Away Peter David Malouf 1982 [5]
Death in Venice Thomas Mann 1912 [7]
Shopgirl Steve Martin 2000 [5]
Property (novel) Valerie Martin 2003 [8]
The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 [8]
Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 [7]
Something Special Iris Murdoch 1957 [5]
Black Water Joyce Carol Oates 1992 [5]
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa 2009 [8]
Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 [5]
True Grit Charles Portis 1968 [10]
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx 1997 [5]
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1965 [5]
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 [8]
Bonjour, Tristesse Francoise Sagan 1954 [8]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1962 [7]
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1960 [8]
The Pearl[11] John Steinbeck 1947 [4]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886 [7]
We the Animals Justin Torres 2011 [5]
Candide Voltaire 1759 [5]
Two Old Women Velma Wallis 1993 [8]
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 [5]
The Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1916 [8]
Madame de Treymes Edith Wharton 1907 [8]
Kitchen (novel) Banana Yoshimoto 1988 [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Novella". Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 20 May 2016. a short novel: a story that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel
  2. ↑ Guest, Katy (19 July 2015). "Novella Award organisers have defined a novel as being a piece of fiction between 20,000 and 40,000 words". The Independent. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Top 10 Novellas". The Novella Award. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "These Amazing Classic Books Are So Short You Have No Excuse Not To Read Them". The Huffington Post. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Carswell, Beth (2012). "The Best Novellas: Literature's Middle Child". AbeBooks. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Thorsson, Johann (18 June 2012). "The World's Best Novellas". On Books & Writing. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Haber, Gordon (29 June 2015). "The 20 Best Novellas Ever Published In The History Of Humankind". Thought Catalog. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Novellas by women, about women". Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  9. ↑ Rottenberg, Catherine (2003). "Passing : Race, Identification, and Desire". Criticism. 45 (4): 435–52. doi:10.1353/crt.2004.0025.
  10. ↑ Soumya Jimmy Ghosh, Quora, Book Recommendations: Which are some of the best crime, thriller, mystery, suspense, noir novellas of all time?, Retrieved June 3, 2016
  11. ↑ Benson, Jackson J. (1990). The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays With a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism. Duke University Press. pp. 143–. ISBN 9780822309949. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
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