/lit/ - Literature

What's a novella?

I would put Siddartha by Hermann Hesse

is there one of these pictures for all books in general? I want to start to get into reading and i think im gonna start with Atlas Shrugged

That's a nice list, OP. However, why would you want to read a novella specifically?

>>782626
Seconded. Actually many Hesse's books could be there.
Seems to be a great list though

where's the pk dick?

The Old Man and the Sea was as boring as watching the nasa channel logo for 20 hours straight.

>Best Novella List
>No Steinbeck

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...wut?

>>782623
Did you mean "Nottrolla?"

everything by ray bradbury

>>782651
this
especially something wicked this way comes

I also agree with your decision to put Animal Farm on the list instead of 1984.

at the mountains of madness

Why the fuck is Daisy Miller not on that list?

>no At The Mountains Of Madness
>no Of Mice & Men

>>782647
>>782660
>>782663

I make no bones about this being a far from definitive list, this is the stuff I've read, that's why I'm asking for help filling the gaps. So give me your recommendations and I'll get round to updating the list.

>>782632

Well, I just like the novella format a lot and thought about putting this image together, that's all really.

The Dead should be on here

A Clockwork Orange.

I'm not sure whether this counts as a short novella or a short story, but I'm throwing it in for consideration anyway.

<---------- /co/ is that way

>>782678
what the fuck are you saying

hmmm...
where are you from OP?

>>782685

Hmm, does the preponderance of UK covers give me away?

>>782677

Seconded. Although it reads more like a short story than a novella to be honest...but it's around 57 pages (my edition anyway). So it's not quite a short story...not quite a novella...but it's still a good read.

>>782689
well yes now that you mention it.

>>782677
Having thought it over, I'd say The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea fits the category much better.

hey Croaker, list looks good so far.
nice to see a chart by someone who know what they're on about.

>>782704
(at 192 pages, without any scholarly introduction)

>>782704

Ahhh, damn, TSWFFGWTS is sitting on my shelf! Don't know why I forgot to include it.

>>782622

>No Heart of Darkness.

Death in Venice

The Blind Owl

How many translations vs native English writers here?

Does this mean that English writing is no longer British/American?

>>782871

Sorry? This was never stated as an English language / literature guide only...

Really needs Of Mice and Men, even if it's too LOL MAINSTREEM

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Time Machine by Orson Wells
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
One Day in The life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Taras Bulba by Nicolai Gogol
Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Luis Stevenson
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Here are a few.

>>782971

Also, The Call of the Wild

>>782622
>the best novellas
>Murakami Haruki

No.

Although Snow Country is excellent, the English translation is pretty weak.

>>783001
Yes.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

you forgot this OP

Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo

Why has no one read this?

And as far as the definition of a novella... I'd say between 100-200 pages, anything shorter than that is usually sold in a short story collection. The line between novella and novel is blurry, though.

>>783097
I usually use the term for stories 70-150 pages.

Envy by Yuri Olesha
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Dying Animal by Philip Roth

>>783130
But would you agree that it's something that can be published alone?

Memories Of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>783097
I did, but Spanish is my native language. I don't think there's any translated edition these days.

>>783172
Yeah, I would think so.

>>783172
I'd like to suggest "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison, if just for the sake of shoe-horning SF's greatest short-form writer in there.

Take out the word "best" and opt for just "novellas".

>>783001
south of the border, west of the sun is a gorgeous book. you are an idiot.

OP, is that the UK cover of it or something?

>>783648
yes, they're all UK covers

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

I'm working on the update, thanks for the input on what I've missed.

>>783350

How about "recommended" instead? I'm not aiming for a definitive list.

>>782737
>>782753
seconded

Bumping, as here's the updated version.

Thanks for all the suggestions (some listed here I still haven't added for various reasons) but keep 'em coming if you think something's still missing.

>>784017
this is actually a good list :)

I want to make a list picture like the OP one but have no idea how. Any anons care to explain?

Photoshop?
Download covers, resize them to a minimum readable size, use guidelines, etc.

of mice and men - steinbeck
anthem - rand

no kafka?

>>783153
I second on Olesha.
It does address the same topics as Happy New World or Fahrenheit, with Hyperopic Socialists replacing the Myopic Hedonists BUT the oldschool intellectual protagonists get dissed severely as well. Like /lit/ he's but a pathetic narcissist anachronism.
The "Book People" here are planning a "last parade" of outdated feelings (such as compassion, tenderness, pride, jealousy, honor, duty, love etc.) that involves the assassination of their perfectly utilitarian modern day genius sausage designer.
it involves family, suicide, love, a mecenate, a poet ranting against philistines, the passionate robot "ophelia", a football player and unrequited love and all that is packed in quite a short novel with prose wonderful enough to be recited by random russians on random occasions till this very day.
it is inspired the Russians to sing while they're taking a dump.

where is kafka

otherwise, good and for once not trolling

>where is kafka
on the shore
he's depressed! leave him be!

bump
want updates
got no photoshop

>>784511
>the /lit/ variant of bel-air

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Get rid of Murakami and add Tao Lin's "Shoplifting From American Apparell"

>>784557

Get the fuck out Tao Lin, you lurk here too much

>>784557
yeh, fuck off tao

>>784557
Go away Tao Lin.

>>784564
>>784573

Hivemind.

>"Shoplifting From American Apparell"
I'd like to buy the book
explain why it is good

Remove Kurt Vonnegut, it is simplistic hippie era nonsense!

Same goes for Hesse and the Frenchmen
they all suck

>>784585
>Watches Faux news and probably has a Confederate flag on his car

>>784596
1.Jesus was a hippie bum
2.Killing people is bad
3.Officers are philistines for killing people while not fucking/farting in the open.

I'd say there are much better books about violence, war, love and shit. But you will defend it with flame because the status of your suburban left-leaning hippie literature is much more important to you than any of the issues it so pathetically failed to address.

ITT
idiots namedropping books

>>784640
>namedropping
100% of the book threads on here involve that.

>>784640

>>784640
In threads about books, especially request threads, people name books. You are a fucking idiot.

>>784640
You must be new here

A lot of the book you're all discussing here are also considered novels. What separates a novella from a novel? It seems like a line that can be crossed from person to person.

>>784752
For me, a novella is generally 100-200 pages, reads like a novel but is like a short story.

>>784803
My copy of Heart of Darkness is 72 pages. I thought it was a novella though..

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Chess Story
Candide
The Postman Always Rings Twice

>>784815
I couldn't call Androids a novella. It's too long.

>>784820

210 pages doesn't seem bad, but I think it's on the border between novella and novel. It depends whether you consider it long, which I really didn't.

>>784835
If we consider Androids a novella it will usher in so many other works to be considered a novella.

The Big Sleep

bump

>>784710
if a name comes without a personal and original comment it's called namedropping which is bad taste in post-wikipedian civilisations.

bump

Chronicle of a death foretold by Marquez.

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> best novellas
> Animal Farm

I didn't see "Of Mice of Men" by Steinbeck on there

>>788444
> best novellas
its just a list

>>784815
>>784835

Okay, Candide, Voltaire's work is tasty satire.
Chess Story, is a carefully crafted story of allegory written by an exiled man.
The Postman Always Rings Twice was good probably the best crime novella I've read (despite I haven't read many).

Androids is Androids, classic PKD, probably too long to be considered.

Get rid of Murakami Haruki!

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Definitely needs Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.

>>791129
Oops, sorry.

When you're done updating/editing this, remember to upload it here: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

What a boring list, nothing but cocks everywhere

Shop-lifting from American Apparel

>The Sorrows of Young Werther
NO
JUST NO