Our [evolving] list of Good Short Novels (from the rise of Naturalism in the 1860s through the year 2000)

GIOVANNI’S ROOM by James Baldwin

THE UNNAMABLE by Samuel Beckett

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James Cain

THE STRANGER by Albert Camus

OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS by Truman Capote

THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS by Stephen Crane

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Fyodor Dostoevsky

THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras

SILAS MARNER by George Eliot

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE END OF THE AFFAIR by Graham Greene

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

HUNGER by Knut Hamsun

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston

THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James

WASHINGTON SQUARE by Henry James

DEATH IN VENICE by Thomas Mann

OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE by Carson McCullers

BILLY BUDD, SAILOR by Herman Melville

THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison

ANIMAL FARM: A FAIRY STORY by George Orwell

OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH by Leo Tolstoy

MISS LONELYHEARTS by Nathanael West

ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton

MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf

THERESE RAQUIN by Emile Zola

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN by Stefan Zweig

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