Subject Week: Short Novels

April 11, 2023
Subject Week: Short Novels

Looking for a short book for a quick afternoon read? This week check out our collection of short novels which you can finish in one day (or weekend). Here you will find a mix of genres, from some of the greatest classics to some new trendy titles, most of which under 200 pages. Enjoy!

 

Print books:

  1. Achebe, C. (1994). Things Fall Apart. Anchor Books. PR9387.9.A3 T5 1994
  2. Adler, R. (2013). Speedboat. New York Review Books. PS3551.D63 S66 2013
  3. Barnes, J. (2011). The Sense of an Ending. Alfred A. Knopf. PR6052.A6657 S46 2011
  4. Bradbury, R. (2012). Fahrenheit 451. Simon & Schuster. PS3503.R167 F3 2012
  5. Christie, A. (1985). And Then There Were None. Dodd, Mead. PR6005.H66 A84 1985
  6. Cisneros, S. (1991). The House on Mango Street. Vintage Books. PS3553.I78 H6 1991
  7. Coelho, P. (2002). The Alchemist. PQ9698.13.O3546 A4513 2002
  8. Fitzgerald, F.S. (1953). The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner’s Sons. PS3511.I9 G7 1953
  9. W. (2006). Lord Of The Flies. Perigee. PR6013.O35 L65 2006
  10. Greenwell, G. (2016). What Belongs To You. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. PS3607.R4686 W48 2016
  11. Han, K. (2016). The Vegetarian. PL992.26.K36 C4313 2016
  12. Hinton, S.E. (2016). The Outsiders. Penguin Books. PS3558.I548 O8 2016
  13. Ishiguro, K. (1990). A Pale View Of Hills. Vintage Books. PR6059.S5 P35 1990
  14. Jiles, P. (2016). News Of The World. William Morrow. PR9199.3.J54 N49 2016
  15. Kafka, F. (1995). The Trial. Schocken Books. PT2621.A26 P713 1995
  16. Lerner, B. (2011). Leaving the Atocha Station. Coffee House Press. PS3612.E68 L43 2011
  17. Morrison, T. (1996). Sula. Alfred A. Knopf. PS3563.O8749 S8 1996
  18. Plath, S. The Bell Jar. Harper & Row. PS3566.L27 B4 1971
  19. Orwell, G. (1982). Animal Farm. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. PR6029.R8 A5 1982
  20. Pynchon, T. (1990). The Crying of Lot 49. Perennial Library. PS3566.Y55 C79 1990
  21. Steinbeck, J. (2017). Of Mice And Men. Penguin Books. PS3537.T3234 O2 2017
  22. Woolf, V. (2003). Dalloway. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. PR6045.O72 M6 2003
  23. Woolf, V. (1973). Orlando: A Biography. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. PR6045.O72 O7 1973

When off-campus, please enter your credentials to access the e-books.

E-books:

  1. Conrad, J. (2019). Heart of Darkness. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  2. Douglass, F. (1976). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Lerner Publishing Group. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  3. Gilman, C. P. (2017). The Yellow Wallpaper. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  4. James, H. (2009). The Turn of the Screw. The Floating Press. EBSCO host.
  5. London, J. (2002). The Call of The Wild. Lerner Publishing Group. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  6. Machiavelli, N. (2021). The Prince. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  7. Shelley, M. (2006). Frankenstein. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  8. Wells, H. G. (2010). The Time Machine. Lerner Publishing Group. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  9. Wilde, O. (1997). The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lerner Publishing Group. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  10. (2009). Candide, Or, Optimism. The Floating Press. EBSCO host.

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