List of novellas

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This is a selected list of novellas that have gained fame and/or critical and public acclaim. The generally accepted length of a novella is 20,000 to 40,000 words, differing from a short story (1,000-7,500 words), a novelette (7,500-20,000 words) and a novel (above 40,000 words).

List of notable novellas

• The Alienist (1882) Machado de Assis
• Anthem (1938) Ayn Rand
• Across the Tasman Sea (2016) James Farrow
• The Aspern Papers (1888) Henry James
• The Awakening (1899) Kate Chopin
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951) Carson McCullers
• The Barracks Thief (1984) Tobias Wolff
• The Bear (1941) William Faulkner
• The Beast in the Jungle (1903) Henry James
• Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) Herman Melville
• Benito Cereno (1855) Herman Melville
• The Bicentennial Man (1976) Isaac Asimov
• Billy Budd (1892; first published in 1924) Herman Melville
• The Body (1982) Stephen King
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) Truman Capote
• Cascade Point (1983) Timothy Zahn
• The Children's Bach (1984) Helen Garner
• A Christmas Carol (1843) Charles Dickens
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) Gabriel García Márquez
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess
• Coraline (2002) Neil Gaiman
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) Thomas Pynchon
• Daisy Miller (1878) Henry James
• The Dead (1914) James Joyce, which concludes Dubliners
• Death in Venice (1913) Thomas Mann
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Leo Tolstoy
• The Metamorphosis (1915) Franz Kafka
• Debt of Bones (2001) Terry Goodkind
• The Double (1866) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Ethan Frome (1911) Edith Wharton
• Everyman (2006) Philip Roth
• First Love (1860) Ivan Turgenev
• Fly Away Peter (1982) David Malouf
• The Golden Pot (1814) E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Philip Roth
• The Hellbound Heart (1984) Clive Barker
• Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad
• The House on Mango Street (1984) Sandra Cisneros
• I Am Legend (1954) Richard Matheson
• In the Ravine (1900) Anton Chekhov
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) Richard Bach
• Klein and Wagner (1920) Hermann Hesse
• Leaf Storm (1955) Gabriel García Márquez
• Legends of the Fall (1977) Jim Harrison
• The Lifted Veil (1859) George Eliot
• The Little Prince (1943) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974) Heinrich Böll
• Magic, Inc. (1940) Robert A. Heinlein
• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) Stephen Crane
• Mario and the Magician (1930) Thomas Mann
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004) Gabriel García Márquez
• Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) Nathanael West
• My Mortal Enemy (1926) Willa Cather
• The Mist (1980) Stephen King
• The Newspaper of Claremont Street (1981) Elizabeth Jolley
• No One Writes to the Colonel (1961) Gabriel García Márquez
• Of Mice and Men (1937) John Steinbeck
• On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989) Joe R. Lansdale
• Pafko at the Wall (1997) Don DeLillo
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) Katherine Anne Porter
• Pedro Paramo (1955) Juan Rulfo
• The Pearl (1945) John Steinbeck
• The Prague Orgy (1985) Philip Roth
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962) Muriel Spark
• A River Runs Through It (1976) Norman Maclean
• Reunion (1960) Fred Uhlman
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) Stephen King
• Sailing to Byzantium (1984) Robert Silverberg
• St Mawr (1925) D.H. Lawrence
• Seize the Day (1956) Saul Bellow
• Senso (1874) Camillo Boito
• The Royal Game ("Schachnovelle" in German; novella written in 1938-41, published posthumously 1942) Stefan Zweig
• The Shadow Line (1917) Joseph Conrad
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) H. P. Lovecraft
• Shopgirl (2001) Steve Martin
• Shoplifting from American Apparel (2007) Tao Lin
• The Snow Goose (1940) Paul Gallico
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Stranger (1942) Albert Camus
• The Tenth Man (1985) Graham Greene
• The Turn of the Screw (1898) Henry James
• The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (1959) Jorge Amado
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942) Robert A. Heinlein
• Ward Number Six (1892) Anton Chekhov
• The War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells
• The Woman Who Waited (2006) Andrei Makine
• The Willows (1907) Algernon Blackwood
• The Cubs (1980) Mario Vargas Llosa
• Aura (1962) Carlos Fuentes
• The Kingdom of this World (1949) Alejo Carpentier
• Arup Tomar Entokanta (2007) Malay Roy Choudhury
• And Venus is Blue (1986) Mary Hood
• Quest for Pandaria (2012) Sarah Pine

Novella series

There have also been notable series of novellas published over the years, including:

• Doctor Who novelisations - between 1964 and 1994 more than 150 books were published adapting episodes of the long-running science fiction series. Many of these volumes fall into the length criteria of novellas. See List of Doctor Who novelisations. From 2002-2004, a series of original hardbound novellas based upon the series were also published, see Telos Doctor Who novellas.
• Goosebumps, a series of young adult's horror novellas.
• Perry Rhodan is an extremely prolific and long-running series of serialized science fiction novellas originally published in Europe, with more than 2,300 installments published as of 2006.
• The Saint, an action-adventure series of books by Leslie Charteris and other authors published between 1928 and 1983, alternated between full novels, short stories, and novellas featuring the character. The first novella collection in this series was 1930's Enter the Saint; the last was Count on the Saint, published in 1980.
• Starfleet Corps of Engineers is a popular series of Star Trek-based novellas that have been successfully published online as ebooks (and later compiled into printed omnibuses) since 2000.

Novella collections

• In The Country, nine novellas by Philippine writer Mia Alvar.^[1]

References

1. Amy Gentry (June 25, 2015). "Review: 'In the Country' by Mia Alvar". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 6, 2016. ... powerful novella ...graceful metaphor ... precise and patient prose ... expansiveness and her gift for grounded, human-scale metaphors....

External links

• List of British Novellas