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List of novellas

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Novellas are works of prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.[1] Several novellas have been recognized as among the best examples of the literary form. Publishers and literary award societies typically consider a novella's word count to be between 17,000 and 40,000 words.[2][3]

Major novellas

Certain novellas have been recognized as some of the best examples of the literary form, through their appearance on multiple best-of lists.[4][5][6][7][8]

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Albert Camus The Stranger 1942 [4][5][6][9][10]
Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's 1958 [4][5][9][10]
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 1899 [5][6][7][8][9][11]
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 1843 [4][5][7][9][11]
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 1952 [4][6][7][8][9][11][10]
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis 1915 [4][5][7][8][9][11][10]
Richard Matheson I Am Legend 1954 [6][7][9][11]
Herman Melville Billy Budd 1924 [5][8]
George Orwell Animal Farm 1945 [4][5][7][8][9][11][10]
Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus 1959 [6][8]
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 1937 [4][7][9][11][10]
Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886 [4][5][9][10]
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome 1911 [5][6][9][10]
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Other notable novellas

Additionally, several novellas have been included on at least one best-of list.

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Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending 2011 [6]
Saul Bellow Seize the Day 1956 [8]
Kate Chopin The Awakening 1899 [12][9][10]

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Paulo Coelho The Alchemist 1988 [6]
Maryse Condé I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem 1986 [12]
Don DeLillo Pafko at the Wall 2001 [6]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler 1867 [8]
Joseph von Eichendorff Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing 1826 [13]
George Eliot Silas Marner 1861
Nora Ephron Heartburn 1983 [12]
Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop 1978 [12]
Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981 [8][9][10]
Gabriel García Márquez No One Writes to the Colonel 1961 [8]
Graham Greene The Tenth Man 1985 [6]
M. K. Indira Phaniyamma 1977 [12]
Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1962 [12][10]
Henry James The Aspern Papers 1888 [8]
Henry James Daisy Miller 1879 [8]
Henry James The Turn of the Screw 1898 [8][9][11][10]
Tove Jansson The Summer Book 1972 [12]
Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs 1896 [12]
James Joyce The Dead 1914 [8]
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1959 [4]
Stephen King Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption 1982 [7][9]
Andrew Krivak The Sojourn 2011 [6]
Nella Larsen Passing 1929 [5][14][10]
Nella Larsen Quicksand 1928 [12]
Doris Lessing The Fifth Child 1988 [12][9][10]
Janet Lewis The Wife of Martin Guerre 1941 [12]
Johannes Linnankoski The Fugitives 1908 [15]
Penelope Lively The Photograph 2003 [6]
H.P. Lovecraft The Shadow Over Innsmouth 1931 [6]
H.P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness 1931 [6][9][11]
David Malouf Fly Away Peter 1982 [6]
Thomas Mann Death in Venice 1912 [8]
Steve Martin Shopgirl 2000 [6][9][10]
Valerie Martin Property 2003 [12]
Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding 1946 [12]
Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener 1853 [8][10]
Iris Murdoch Something Special 1957 [6]
Joyce Carol Oates Black Water 1992 [6]
Yōko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor 2003 [12]
Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster 2007 [6]
Charles Portis True Grit 1968
Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain 1997 [6]
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 1966 [6]
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 [12][9][10]
Francoise Sagan Bonjour, Tristesse 1954 [12]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962 [8][9][10]
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1961 [12][9][10]
John Steinbeck The Pearl 1947 [5][16][9]
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich 1886 [8][17][9]
Justin Torres We the Animals 2011 [6]
Voltaire Candide 1759 [6]
Velma Wallis Two Old Women 1993 [12]
H. G. Wells The Time Machine 1895 [6][9][10]
Edith Wharton Bunner Sisters 1916 [12]
Edith Wharton Madame de Treymes 1907 [12]
Banana Yoshimoto Kitchen 1988 [6]
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