I've been really enjoying short books and novellas recently, so I thought it would be fun to collect some of my favorites in case you are in need of novella recommendations. I'll also cover some novellas I want to read in the future and the novellas you recommended. Expand for more information. 👇

Criteria 📋
Must be 200 pages or less
Should exist separately from short story collections or be differentiated from other stories/novellas in a collection

Further Viewing 🎥
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Titles I Have Read 📚
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Now in November, Josephine Johnson
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
Winter Love, Han Suyin
Zorrie, Laird Hunt
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Gifts of the Body, Rebecca Brown
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle)
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Passing, Nella Larsen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

More From My TBR 📚📚
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
A Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
Brickmakers, Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott)
Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Edward G. Seidensticker)
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Yukon Mishima (translated by John Nathan)
Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick McCabe
Franny, the Queen of Provincetown, John Preston
Olivia, Dorothy Strachey
A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
Cane, Jean Toomer
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

From Commenters 📚📚📚
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain
Recitatif, Toni Morrison
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse (translated by Susan Bernotsky)
A Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
The Murderbot Series, Martha Wells
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (translated by Frances Fenaye)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now in November, Josephine Johnson
The Wedding of Zein, Taleb Salih (translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers
Stone in a Landslide, Maria Barbal (translated by Laura McGloughlin)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Grass Harp, Truman Capote

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