Accountant, by Ethan Canin
Lee Klein
Adopted Town, by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Tobias Carroll
Agape Agape, by William Gaddis
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Adam Robinson
The Age of Wire and String, by Ben Marcus
Josh Maday, John Madera, John Dermot Woods
Amras, by Thomas Bernhard
Carole Maso
Angels and Insects, by A.S. Byatt
Lorette C. Luzajic
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Amelia Gray
Apt Pupil, by Stephen King
Nick Antosca, Timothy Gager
Arthur, by Matthew Savoca
Kathryn Regina
As a Friend, by Forrest Gander
Matthew Simmons
As for Me and My House, by Sinclair Ross
Lorette C. Luzajic
The Ash Gray Proclamation, by Dennis Cooper
Justin Taylor
The Aspern Papers, by Henry James
John Haskell, John Dermot Woods
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
Justin Taylor
The Atrocity Exhibition, by J.G. Ballard
Josh Maday
At the Bottom of the River, by Jamaica Kincaid
Reb Livingston
Aureole, by Carole Maso
Michael Joyce
Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson
John Madera
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
Nicolle Elizabeth, Amelia Gray, William Walsh
Badlands, by Cynthia Reeves
Michael Martone
The Bailbondsman, by Stanley Elkin
Kimberly King Parsons
Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers
K. Kvashay-Boyle, Timothy Gager, Christopher Higgs, Leni Zumas
The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
Molly Gaudry
Bartleby & Co., by Enrique Vila-Matas
Scott Esposito
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, by Herman Melville
Jimmy Chen, James Iredell, Shane Jones, Sean Kilpatrick, Gary Lutz, Josh Maday, John Madera, Carole Maso, Adam Robinson, Joe Stracci, Justin Taylor, William Walsh
The Bathroom, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Josh Maday, Christopher Higgs, Jamie Iredell
Battles in the Desert, by Jose Emilio Pacheco
Scott Esposito
The Bear, by William Faulkner
Lee Klein, Josh Maday, William Walsh
The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James
William Walsh
The Beauty of the Husband, by Anne Carson
Lee Klein
Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock
Paul Kincaid
Being There, by Jerzy Kosinsky
Bradley Sands
The Bench of Desolation, by Henry James
Renee Gladman
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville
Jamie Iredell
Bibliophilia, by Michael Griffith
Steve Almond, Kevin Wilson
Billy Budd, by Herman Melville
John Haskell, David Shields
The Bird Room, by Chris Killen
Ben Myers
Black Water, by Joyce Carol Oates
Sean Lovelace
Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale, by Alan Gurganus
Kevin Wilson
Blood Child, by Octavia E. Butler
Michael Martone
The Blue Guide to Indiana, by Michael Martone
Scott Esposito, Sean Lovelace
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Reb Livingston
The Body, by Stephen King
Timothy Gager
The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo
Gary Lutz, John Madera, William Walsh
Bonsai, by Alejandro Zambra
Scott Esposito
A Book, by Nicole Brossard
Renee Gladman
The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald
Cooper Renner
Bounty, by George Saunders
Sean Lovelace, Justin Taylor
A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
David Shields
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
Tim Russell
The Breast, by Philip Roth
Amelia Gray, Tim Russell
Briar Rose, by Robert Coover
Michael Joyce
The Breathing Method, by Stephen King
Justin Taylor
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Lorette C. Luzajic
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, by George Saunders
Crispin Best
The Brotherhood of Mutilation, by Brian Evenson
Matt Bell, Kimberly King Parsons
Bubba Ho Tep, by Joe R. Lansdale
Clayton Moore
The Burrow, by Franz Kafka
Jac Jemc
But Beautiful, by Geoff Dyer
Ben Pester
By Night in Chile, by Roberto Bolaño
Scott Esposito, Brian Evenson
By the Steps of Grand Central I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart
Peter Selgin
The Calmative, by Samuel Beckett
Michael Joyce, John Madera
Candide, by Voltaire
Nick Antosca, Amelia Gray, Ben Pester
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
Tim Russell
The Carnival Tradition, by Rick Moody
Tobias Carroll
Carrying the Body, by Dawn Raffel
Joe Stracci
Cat & Mouse, by Gunter Grass
Ben Pester
The Centaur in the Garden, by Moacyr Scliar
Daniel Borzutzky
Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
Josh Maday
Chimera [three novellas], by John Barth
Michael Martone
Christie Malry Own Double Entry, by B S Johnson
Crispin Best
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
K. Kvashay-Boyle, Nicolle Elizabeth, Lorette C. Luzajic, John Madera, Carole Maso, Joe Stracci
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Madera, Carole Maso, Ben Pester
City of Glass, by Paul Auster
Josh Maday
Closely Watched Trains, by Bohumil Hrabal
Leni Zumas
The Comfort of Strangers, by Ian McEwan
Tim Russell
Coming Through Slaughter, by Michael Ondaatje
Michael Kimball, Ben Pester
Company, by Samuel Beckett
Renee Gladman, Josh Maday, John Madera, Carole Maso
Concrete, by Thomas Bernhard
Daniel Borzutzky, Brian Evenson
Contino’s Blues, by James Ellroy
Clayton Moore
Coronado, by Dennis Lehane
Clayton Moore
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
John Dermot Woods
Daisy Miller, by Henry James
William Walsh
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
Lorette C. Luzajic
Dangling Man, by Saul Bellow
Lee Klein
Dark Property, by Brian Evenson
Gary Lutz
David Boring, by Dan Clowes
John Dermot Woods
Dawn, by Elie Wiesel
Jamie Iredell, John Madera
The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
Jim Hanas, Leni Zumas
A Day Meant To Do Less, by Kyle Minor
Kevin Wilson
The Dead, by James Joyce
Crispin Best, Amelia Gray, John Haskell, John Madera, Peter Selgin, David Shields, Joe Stracci, John Dermott Woods, Lee Klein
The Deathbird, by Harlan Ellison
Paul Kincaid
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
Timothy Gager, Renee Gladman, John Haskell, John Madera, Carole Maso, Leni Zumas, Lee Klein
Death is Not the End, by Ian Rankin
Clayton Moore
The Death of Ivan Illyich, by Leo Tolstoy
Lee Klein, Josh Maday, Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
Molly Gaudry
Demian, by Herman Hesse
Lorette C. Luzajic
Destroy, She Said, Marguerite Duras
Renee Gladman
Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet
Peter Selgin
Diary of a Mad Old Man, by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
Ben Myers
Distant Star, by Roberto Bolaño
Daniel Borzutzky
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Amelia Gray
Dragons in Manhattan, by Francesca Lia Block
Jac Jemc
The Dream Lide of Balso Snell, by Nathanael West
Sean Kilpatrick
Dreams and Stones, by Magdalena Tulli
Renee Gladman
The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr, by Jesse Ball
Shane Jones
The Earthquake in Chile, by Heinrich von Kleist
Adam Robinson
The Ebony Tower, by John Fowles
Nick Antosca
Eden Eden Eden, by Pierre Guyotat
Sean Kilpatrick, Josh Maday
Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Enchanted Night, by Steven Millhauser
Matthew Simmons
The Enchanter, by Vladamir Nabokov
J.R. Angelella
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Jamie Iredell
Equal Danger, by Leonardo Sciascia
Brian Evenson
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
Carole Maso, William Walsh
Et Tu, Babe, by Mark Leyner
Crispin Best
Europeana, by Patrik Ourednik
Blake Butler
EVER, by Blake Butler
Ken Baumann, Matt DeBenedictis, Nicolle Elizabeth, Christopher Higgs, Jamie Iredell, Jac Jemc, Shane Jones, Sean Kilpatrick, Matthew Simmons, William Walsh
Everybody Pays, by Andrew Vachss
Clayton Moore
Everyday, by Lee Rourke
Ben Myers
Everyman, by Philip Roth
Matt DeBenedictis
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll Pataphysician, by Alfred Jarry
Josh Maday
The Fall, by Albert Camus
David Shields
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
John Madera
The Father Costume, by Ben Marcus
Gary Lutz, John Madera
Fauntleroy’s Ghost, by Vinnie Wilhelm
K. Kvashay-Boyle
The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
Jac Jemc
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
Paul Kincaid
First Love, by Samuel Beckett
John Haskell, John Madera
First Love, by Ivan Turgenev
Sean Lovelace
Flet, by Joyelle McSweeney
Blake Butler
Flight to Forever, by Ray Bradbury
Timothy Gager
Florida, by Christine Schutt
Michael Kimball
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Foe, by J.M. Coetzee
Tim Russell
For Jerome—With Love and Kisses, by Gordon Lish
Gary Lutz
The Former World Record Holder Settles Down, by Courtney Eldridge
Jac Jemc, Matthew Simmons, Joe Stracci
Frances Johnson, by Stacey Levine
Lily Hoang
The Gambler, by Dostoevsky
Nicolle Elizabeth, Adam Robinson
Gentlehands, by M.E. Kerr
Lorette C. Luzajic
Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Glass, by Greg Mulcahy
Kimberly King Parsons
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut
Matt DeBenedictis
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth
K. Kvashay-Boyle, Timothy Gager, Adam Robinson, Joe Stracci
Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys
Ben Pester
Good Old Neon, by David Foster Wallace
Lee Klein
The Good Soldier, by Ford Maddox Ford
Steve Almond
The Good Times are Killing Me, by Lynda Barry
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Gould, by Stephen Dixon
Adam Robinson
The Grass Harp, by Truman Capote
Molly Gaudry
The Greatest Fucking Moment in Sports, by Kevin L. Donihe
Bradley Sands
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Steve Almond, John Madera, Peter Selgin
Great Work of Time, by John Crowley
Brian Evenson
The Haberdasher, by Jordan Krall
Bradley Sands
Hapworth 16, 1924, by J.D. Salinger
Jackie Corley, Joe Stracci
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie
Molly Gaudry, John Madera
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Steve Almond, K. Kvashay-Boyle, Brian Evenson, Timothy Gager, Amelia Grey, Sean Lovelace, Josh Maday, John Madera, Carole Maso, Clayton Moore, Tim Russell, Peter Selgin, David Shields, Justin Taylor
Heaven, by Mary Gaitskill
Justin Taylor
Heinrich von Ofterdingen, by Novalis
Carole Maso
Hello America, by J.G. Ballard
Michael Kimball
Help! A Bear is Eating Me, by Mykle Hansen
Bradley Sands
The High Traverse, by Richard Blanchard
Michael Kimball
The Horla, by Guy De Maupassant:
Ken Baumann
Hounds of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
K. Kvashay-Boyle
The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
Daniel Borzutzky, Christopher Higgs, Michael Joyce, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Carole Maso
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
J.R. Angelella
How It Is, by Samuel Beckett
Josh Maday
The Human War, by Noah Cicero
Matt DeBenedictis, Brandon Scott Gorrell
I Am Death, or Bartleby the Monster (A Story of Chicago), by Gary Amdahl
Matt Bell
Ill Seen Ill Said, by Samuel Beckett
Josh Maday, John Madera, Carole Maso
The Immoralist, by André Gide:
Ken Baumann
The Infinity Box, by Kate Wilhelm
Paul Kincaid
I, the Jury, by Mickey Spillane
Clayton Moore
In Praise of the Stepmother, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Reb Livingston
In the Heart of the Country, by J.M. Coetzee
Reb Livingston
In the Penal Colony, by Frank Kafka
J.R. Angelella, Shane Jones, Sean Kilpatrick, Josh Maday, John Madera, Joe Stracci
In the Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje
Molly Gaudry
In Urbem, by Nina Shope
Blake Butler
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Blake Butler, John Madera, Scott Esposito
The Invention of Solitude, by Paul Auster
Lee Klein
In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan
Ken Baumann, Crispin Best, Blake Butler, Molly Gaudry, Renee Gladman, Sean Kilpatrick, Peter Selgin, Christopher Higgs, Shane Jones, Bradley Sands
It Was Like My Trying To Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, by Diane Williams
Justin Taylor
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
Lorette C. Luzajic
Jakob Von Gunten, by Robert Walser
John Dermot Woods
Jesus’ Son, by Denis Johnson
Nick Antosca, K. Kvashay-Boyle, John Haskell, Jamie Iredell, Lee Klein,
Joy in the Morning, by P.G. Wodehouse
Ben Pester
Juice, by Renee Gladman
John Madera
Keller’s Adjustment, by Lawrence Block
Clayton Moore
Kneller’s Happy Campers, by Etgar Keret
Matt Bell
Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Lady with a Lapdog, by Chekhov
John Haskell
Land of the Snow Men, by George Belden (aka Norman Lock)
Cooper Renner
Last Days, by Brian Evenson
Matt Bell
Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O’Nan
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Leaf Storm, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Molly Gaudry
The Left Handed Woman, by Peter Handke
Carole Maso
Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier
Nick Antosca
The Lemur, by Benjamin Black
Clayton Moore
Less Shiny, by Mary Miller
Sean Lovelace
Letter to His Father, by Franz Kafka
Lee Klein
Letters to Wendy’s, by Joe Wenderoth
Kathryn Regina
The Levitationist, by Brandon Hobson
Blake Butler
Liberty or Love, by Robert Desnos
Sean Lovelace
Light Boxes, by Shane Jones
Ken Baumann, Christopher Higgs, Kathryn Regina, Adam Robinson, Bradley Sands, Matthew Simmons
The Lime Twig, by John Hawkes
Michael Joyce
The Living End [a collection of three interwoven novellas], by Stanley Elkin
Michael Martone
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, by Stanley Crawford
Blake Butler, Brian Evenson, Shane Jones, John Madera, Michael Kimball
The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner, by Allan Sillitoe
Timothy Gager, Michael Martone
The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard
John Dermot Woods
Love and Friendship, by Jane Austen
Tim Russell
Love in a Fallen City, by Eileen Chang
Lily Hoang
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Carole Maso
Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
Tobias Carroll, Paul Kincaid, John Madera, Bradley Sands, Kevin Wilson
A Man Called Spade, by Dashiell Hammett
Clayton Moore
The Man Sitting in the Corridor, by Marguerite Duras
Michael Joyce
Marcovaldo, by Italo Calvino
Crispin Best
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Nick Antosca, John Madera
Melanctha, by Gertrude Stein
Jac Jemc, Michael Joyce
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Crispin Best, Daniel Borzutzky, Jackie Corley, Nicolle Elizabeth, Timothy Gager, Amelia Gray, Lily Hoang, James Iredell, Lee Klein, John Madera, Kathryn Regina, Matthew Simmons, William Walsh
The Mezzanine or Room Temperature, by Nicholson Baker
Michael Martone
Milk, by Darcey Steinke
John Madera, Justin Taylor
The Mirror in the Well, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
John Madera
Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West
K. Kvashay-Boyle, Tobias Carroll, Jim Hanas, Shane Jones, Sean Kilpatrick, Carole Maso, Matthew Simmons
The Mist, by Stephen King
Justin Taylor
Molly, by Samuel Beckett
Daniel Borzutzky, John Madera
A Month in the Country, by JL Carr
Ben Myers
Morning, Noon, and Night, by Spalding Gray
David Shields
Motorman, by David Ohle
Christopher Higgs
My Friends, by Emmanuel Bove
Peter Selgin
The Mystery Guest, by Gregoire Bouillier
David Shields
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens
Clayton Moore
My Untimely Death, by Adam Peterson
Christopher Higgs
My Work is Not Yet Done, by Thomas Ligotti
Bradley Sands
Naïve, Super by Erlend Loe
Adam Robinson
The Name of the World, by Denis Johnson
J.R. Angelella, Matt Bell
Nevermore, by Marie Redonnet
Brian Evenson
Never Die, by Barry Hannah
Sean Kilpatrick
Night, by Elie Wiesel
John Madera
1933 Was a Bad Year, by John Fante
Ben Myers
The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown, by Ivan Gold
Peter Selgin
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, by Kenzaburo Oe
Molly Gaudry
Nobody Move, by Denis Johnson
Clayton Moore
No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai
John Dermot Woods
No One Writes to the Colonel, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jamie Iredell, Carole Maso
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
J.R. Angelella, Sean Kilpatrick, Lee Klein, John Madera, Josh Maday, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, John Dermot Woods
Nova Express, by William S. Burroughs
Josh Maday
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Jamie Iredell, Catherine Lacey, John Madera, William Walsh
Of Walking in Ice, by Werner Herzog
Lee Klein
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
Jackie Corley, Molly Gaudry, Kathryn Regina, J.R. Angellela, Sean Lovelace, John Madera, William Walsh
Once in Europa, by John Berger
John Haskell
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
K. Kvashay-Boyle
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Josh Maday, Ben Pester
One DOA, One on the Way, by Mary Robison
Nicolle Elizabeth
On Sexual Strength, by Diane Williams
Gary Lutz, Kimberly King Parsons
On the Mountain, by Thomas Bernhard
Carole Maso
The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty
J.R. Angelella
Ordinary Love and Good Will, by Jane Smiley
Michael Martone
Pafko at the Wall, by Don DeLillo
Crispin Best, William Walsh
The Palace Thief [contains 4 novellas], by Ethan Canin
Steve Almond
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter
Scott Esposito, David Shields, Leni Zumas
The Palm Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola
Michael Kimball
Pamela, a novel, by Pamela Lu
Renee Gladman
Panama, by Thomas McGuane
Reb Livingston
The Part about Amalfitano (Book 2 of 2666), by Roberto Bolaño
Nicolle Elizabeth
The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
Molly Gaudry
Pastoralia, by George Saunders
Jac Jemc
The Pedersen Kid, by William H. Gass
Brian Evenson, Josh Maday, John Madera, Adam Robinson, Joe Stracci
Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo
Daniel Borzutzky
Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood
K. Kvashay-Boyle
The Pharmacist’s Mate, by Amy Fusselman
Michael Kimball, David Shields
Philosophy in the Boudoir, by the Marquis de Sade
Nick Antosca
Pig Earth, by John Berger
John Haskell
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story, by Glenway Wescott
Michael Kimball, John Madera, David Shields
The Pink Institution, by Selah Saterstrom
Lily Hoang
Pinocchio, by Carlos Collodi
Nicolle Elizabeth
Prayer for the Dying, by Stewart O’Nan
K. Kvashay-Boyle
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Peter Selgin
The Prodigy, by Herman Hesse
Ben Pester
Project X, by Jim Shepard
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, by J. D. Salinger
David Shields, William Walsh
The Ravishing of Lol Stein, by Marguerite Duras
Daniel Borzutzky
R & R, by Lucius Shepard
Paul Kincaid
Ray, by Barry Hannah
Blake Butler, Brian Evenson, Christopher Higgs, Gary Lutz, Kimberly King Parsons
Report of Ito Sadohara, by Michael Mejia
Michael Martone
Revenge, by Steven Millhauser
Kevin Wilson
Revenge of the Lawn, by Richard Brautigan
Ben Myers
The Revisionist, by Miranda Mellis
Ken Baumann, Blake Butler, Kathryn Regina
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, by Stephen King
Clayton Moore, Justin Taylor
The Rose, by Charles Harness
Paul Kincaid
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima
Ben Myers, Ben Pester
Samedi the Blindness, by Jesse Ball
John Madera
The Sanza Affair, by Brian Evenson
Blake Butler, Adam Robinson
A Saving Grace, by Lorna Crozier
Lorette C. Luzajic
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with Sea, by Yukio Mishima
Ben Myers
Sea of Patchwork Cats, by Carlton Mellick III
Bradley Sands
The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad
J.R. Angelella
See Amid the Winter’s Snow, by Christine Schutt
Gary Lutz
Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow
Lee Klein, Peter Selgin, William Walsh
Selections from the Journals, by Henry David Thoreau
Ben Myers
The Session by Aaron Petrovich
Jamie Iredell
Seymour: An Introduction, by J.D. Salinger
Bradley Sands
Shane, by Jack Schaefer
Jamie Iredell
The Shawl, by Cynthia Ozick
Blake Butler, Sean Kilpatrick
Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
Kevin Wilson
Shopgirl, by Steve Martin
Nicolle Elizabeth, William Walsh
The Sickness Unto Death, by Soren Kierkegaard
Josh Maday
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Timothy Gager
A Simple Tale, by Claire Messud
Christine Schutt
The Singing Fish, by Peter Markus
William Walsh
Singularity, by William Sleator
Nick Antosca
63: Dream Palace, by James Purdy
Brian Evenson
Skellig, by David Almond
John Madera
Sleepless Nights, by Elizabeth Hardwick
Kimberly King Parsons
Slut of the Normandy Coast, by Marguerite Duras
Renee Gladman
Small Pale Humans, by Daniel Spinks
Crispin Best
Snowman, Snowman, by Janet Frame
John Madera
Snow White, by Donald Barthelme
Crispin Best
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
Lorette C. Luzajic
Spanking the Maid, by Robert Coover
William Walsh
Speedboat, by Renata Adler
Kimberly King Parsons
The Spotted Pup, by Dorothy B. Hughes
Kevin Wilson
The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin
Tim Russell
The Stone Book Quartet [four novellas], by Alan Garner
Cooper Renner
Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille
Josh Maday, Justin Taylor
Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang (1998)
Paul Kincaid
Storeyville, by Frank Santoro
John Dermot Woods
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nicolle Elizabeth, John Madera, Adam Robinson, Tim Russell
Strange Prey, by George C. Chesbro (1970)
Clayton Moore
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
John Madera, Clayton Moore, Peter Selgin, William Walsh
Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
Clayton Moore
The Stupefaction, by Diane Williams
Justin Taylor
The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac
Jac Jemc
The Suffering Channel, by David Foster Wallace
Matthew Simmons
Summer Scientists, by Della Watson
Kathryn Regina
The Supermale, by Alfred Jarry
Josh Maday
Sylvia, by Leonard Michaels
David Shields
Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein
Christopher Higgs
Tenkiller, by Elmore Leonard
Clayton Moore
Terra Infirma, by Faruk Ulay
Sean Kilpatrick
Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
Michael Martone
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
Paul Kincaid, John Madera
This is Where My Life Went Wrong, by C. Bard Cole
Michael Martone
This Shape We’re In, by Jonathan Lethem
Matthew Simmons
Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Tony Takitani, by Haruki Murakami
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal
Lee Klein
Tortoise, by James Lewelling
Matt DeBenedictis
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
John Dermot Woods
The Toth Family, by Istvan Orkeny
Tim Russell
The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton
Tobias Carroll
Tracer, by Frederick Barthelme:
Ken Baumann
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Josh Maday
The Train Was On Time, by Heinrich Böll
William Walsh
Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf, by Paul Fattaruso
Shane Jones
Treatise, by Noah Cicero
Nick Antosca
The Trip to Bordeaux, by Ludwig Harig
Renee Gladman
Tristessa, by Jack Kerouac
Jamie Iredell
Trouble is My Business, by Raymond Chandler
Clayton Moore
Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan
Amelia Gray, Michael Kimball, Peter Selgin
Tumble Home, by Amy Hempel
J.R. Angelella, Nicolle Elizabeth, Jac Jemc, Gary Lutz, John Madera, Joe Stracci, Justin Taylor, Kevin Wilson
Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
K. Kvashay-Boyle, Lily Hoang, Paul Kincaid, William Walsh, Leni Zumas
The Umbilicus of Limbo, by Antonin Artaud
Josh Maday
The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett
Leni Zumas
Van Gogh’s Room at Arles, by Stanley Elkin
Michael Joyce
Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Sean Kilpatrick
Vivre l’orange by Hélène Cixous
Michael Joyce
The Wages of Syntax, by Ray Vukcevich
Matthew Simmons
Walking, by Thomas Bernhard
Michael Joyce, Carole Maso
Walking Around Money, by Donald E. Westlake
Clayton Moore
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
John Madera
Waste, by Eugene Marten
Ken Baumann, John Madera, Josh Maday, Kimberly King Parsons
We’re All in This Together, by Owen King
Kevin Wilson
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, by David Foster Wallace
Blake Butler, Jac Jemc
What Begins with Bird, by Noy Holland
Leni Zumas
Where We Come From, by Judy Budnitz
K. Kvashay-Boyle
The White Album, by Joan Didion
John Haskell
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, by Barbara Comyns
Brian Evenson
Wild Child, by T.C. Boyle
Matthew Simmons
Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife, by William Gass
Lily Hoang, Kimberly King Parsons
Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
Nick Antosca
The Witness, by Juan José Saer
Ben Myers
Wittgenstein’s Nephew, by Thomas Bernhard
Lee Klein
Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal el Saadawi
Daniel Borzutzky
Woman in the Dunes, by Kobo Abe
Daniel Borzutzky
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, by Roald Dahl
Ben Myers
Worstward Ho, by Samuel Beckett
Josh Maday, John Madera, Carole Maso
The Wrong Thing, by Mary Gaitskill
Kevin Wilson
Wynema, by S. Alice Callahan
Jamie Iredell
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkin Gilman
Jimmy Chen
Zimzum, by Gordon Lish
Kimberly King Parsons
“Zooey” (of Franny & Zooey) by J.D. Salinger,
J.R. Angelella
Any novella by Andre Dubus (there are many)
Sean Lovelace
Those Little Monsters: Recommended Novellas
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Leni Zumas’s Eight Great Novellas
1. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898)
Weird children worry the governess.
2. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (1913)
Body is beautiful. Body is contagious. Body rides vaporetto. Body decays.
3. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter (1939)
Fever can kill you quicker than bullets.
4. The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West (1939)
Hollywood is peculiar half-world of high-gruesomes.
5. The Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers (1951)
Hunchback dwarf makes best lover.
6. Closely Watched Trains, by Bohumil Hrabal (1965)
Boy dreams at depot in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. With semaphores.
7. What Begins with Bird, by Noy Holland (2005)
Uncanny new language is concocted for mothers, for sisters, and for mourners.
8. The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett (2007)
Library is on wheels—kitchen boy encourages—Queen of England begins to write.
Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City, 2008). Her work has appeared in New York Tyrant, Quarterly West, Harp & Altar, Open City, and New Orleans Review. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is an Artist-in-Residence in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program. She is Associate Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. She currently teaches at Columbia University. Visit her HERE.
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John Dermot Woods’s Top Ten Novellas
Here’s what I’ve come up with, although I’m sure I’ve missed something great. Here’s ten novellas (I think they’re novellas—never easy to tell, is it?) that live inside me—the first ten that came to mind.
The Aspern Papers, by Henry James
The plot of this one should be made into a Hollywood movie (I’m trying to do it). James offers no retribution or consolation. Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men reminds me of The Aspern Papers in that regard.
The Age of Wire and String, by Ben Marcus
You can’t write the same after reading this one. Marcus wears his influences on his sleeve (Beckett, Barthelme) in many ways, but, in doing so, offers storytellers a whole new method for world-building.
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
This book is fun. Maybe not the profound and disturbing works that his mega-novels are, but one of the most enjoyable pieces of literature written last century.
Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This one began Dostoevskys exploration of containment and claustrophobia. And it’s pretty damn immediate when read these days. If you haven’t read it since college, you should.
David Boring, by Dan Clowes
So much of Clowes work is amazing (Ghost World, Ice Haven, etc.), but this book was the first I read by him, and it really stretched my concept of how normal a fantastic story could be. As great as the feeling in his other work is, the way he pushed the weirdness in this one about half a step further makes it stand out in my mind.
Storeyville, by Frank Santoro
This one is all about the pages. Frank Santoro questions comic conventions in his very composition. (And he does it pretty overtly with his incendiary—but always thoughtful—posts over at Comics, Comics.) The pencils and blocks of muted colors and lack of panel gutters create a new way to conceive of pages. This book allows creators to realize that many assumptions about page composition are appropriate for a very specific type of comic, but not all.
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
I rip this book off every time I write.
No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai
Like James, Dazai makes no apologies. Neither do his characters. Like Dostoevsky, he embraces claustrophobia. Dazai smacks you in the face and then shrugs when you look at him quizzically, as if to say, “That’s all I got.”
The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard
It’s hard to choose one from Bernhard, but this was one that I thought I could define as a novella, so I went with it. Bernhard always distracts us and asks us to look at the thing beside the thing. Forget about the focus, forget about that hotshot Glenn Gould, look at the other suckers. And his prose is relentless. He never lets you breathe; it’s exhilarating to read his one-hundred-page paragraphs.
The Dead, by James Joyce
Subtext, tear-jerking—do I have to explain this one?
Jakob Von Gunten, by Robert Walser
My obsession of the month. (I actually just posted about it on my blog.) This book defines what people mean when they say, “Love is the closest thing to hate.”
John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics. He is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College on Long Island. He edits the arts quarterly Action Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast. His fiction and comics have appeared in Indiana Review, American Letters & Commentary, No Colony, Hobart, sleepingfish, 3rd Bed, Salt Hill, and other places. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit him HERE.
Kevin Wilson’s Top Ten Favorite Novellas
I fear this is too long. I chose novellas that aren’t presented by themselves in a book. So no Miss Lonelyhearts or Ballad of the Sad Café or EVER, all three amazing books that I would have included otherwise. Instead, I picked stories that are listed as novellas within a larger collection. People might call them long short stories, but I’m calling them novellas. Also, instead of trying to think of variations of “This is awesome,” I just picked lines from the novellas that say “This is awesome” in the author’s own words. If it’s too long, cut it out. Thanks again for thinking of me and I can’t wait to see what other people pick.
Favorite Novellas
1. We’re All in This Together, by Owen King
2. Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
3. Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale, by Alan Gurganus
4. Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
5. Bibliophilia, by Michael Griffith
6. The Wrong Thing, by Mary Gaitskill
7. Tumble Home, by Amy Hempel
8. Revenge, by Steven Millhauser
9. The Spotted Pup, by Dorothy B. Hughes
10. A Day Meant To Do Less, by Kyle Minor
“To put it succinctly, she said that Gil believe with absolute certainty that he had once stroked Ralph Nader’s naked thighs at a masquerade orgy…it was Gil’s testimony that the masked man had returned his thigh-stroking in kind, and with all the compassion and attention that one might have expected from a person who had selflessly dedicated his life to the public good.”
From We’re All In This Together, by Owen King
“In the previous episode of The Library, masked pirate-magicians said they would sell Prince Wing a cure for the spell that infested Faithful Margaret’s hair with miniature, wicked, fire-breathing golems.”
From Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
“The more vivid each dark person became, the blanker, blander, and whiter I felt. A plug of stray cotton.”
From Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale, by Alan Gurganus
“They had buried a hundred and seven at sea, he said. Or perhaps it was a hundred and seventy. When they ran out of old sails to use as shrouds they’d slipped the bodies into weighted meal-sacks and tipped them over the bulwarks on hatch-battens.”
From Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
“She wishes these shiny young people would keep their ids and orifices to themselves: diddle one another silly in private, if they want, but keep the library a preserve for the book and its dusty devotees. Is that too much to ask? The books, safe in their cellophane condoms, set a fine and celibate example, but no one heeds. No one heeds.”
From Bibliophilia, by Michael Griffith
“To entertain me, she brought a large cardboard box out of the closet and showed me what was in it. There were somber albums of family pictures (tiny troubled Erin in a ruffled swimsuit, handsome Dad looking absently at something outside the frame, towering, pissed-off Mom), a plaque that had been awarded to her in a high school photography contest, a track team trophy, a bracelet her brother had made for her in junior high, love letters, an artificial penis made of rubber, an apparatus with which to strap it on, an odd assortment of small plastic animals, and some Polaroids of Erin naked except for a dog collar and leash around her neck.”
From The Wrong Thing, by Mary Gaitskill
“I have killed two of the wrong things to kill. It is not like the city where you know what to kill. First a preying mantis (they will eat the other bugs if you give them a chance to do it) and then a firefly which, without its glow, was just a beetle in the bathroom.”
From Tumble Home, by Amy Hempel
“Apparently the thing to do was find his E spot. When you found it, you pressed it. Then he raped you. Your marriage was saved. The trouble with the E spot was that it was very hard to locate; it was somewhere near the abdomen, or the pancreas.”
From Revenge, by Steven Millhauser
“…the glare of movie marquees…Chinese restaurants and hole-in-the-wall gyp joints called night clubs…cafeterias and greasy hamburger stands, hat shops, pawn shops, candy shops, junk jewelry shops, book shops, phonograph record shops, everything scribbled with neon, everything blaring with noise, glaring with light.”
From The Spotted Pup, by Dorothy B. Hughes
“The sock had to come off. He tried again, this time stretching the fabric as carefully around the arch as he had around the heel. When the sock cleared skin, he saw something like a rash, a reddish-purple blemish that covered most of the arch, surrounded by a deep yellowish-purple ring, a deep, deep bruise.”
From A Day Meant to Do Less, by Kyle Minor
Kevin Wilson is the author of the collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009). His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has twice been included in the New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best anthology. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, teaches fiction at the University of the South and helps run the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Visit him HERE.
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