Anonymous
03/17/2026 22:47
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
The Swimmer by Cheever, Old Mrs Harris by Willa Cather, The Summer People by Shirley Jackson, Royal Jelly by Roald Dahl, The Secret Miracle by Borges.
Anonymous
03/17/2026 21:04
Subject: Re:Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Anonymous wrote:The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
I was going to recommend this or Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Anonymous
03/17/2026 20:27
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
I just read Foster by Claire Keegan. What talent she has.
Anonymous
03/17/2026 16:16
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
This, and: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Anonymous
03/17/2026 16:11
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
I loved the Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, set in northern England. An adolescent girl coming of age on her parents' dig at an Iron Age site. Weird and dark and a quick 130 pages.
Anonymous
03/17/2026 16:06
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Anonymous wrote:A River Runs Through It
One of my absolute favorites. I still have my dad's paperback copy.
I just got Lauren Groff's new book of short stories, Brawler. Haven't started it yet but I'm excited to start!
Anonymous
03/17/2026 15:56
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Eve in Hollywood, a novella in collection Table for Two, by Amor Towels .. author of Gentleman in Moscow.
It's the sequel to Rules of Civility.
It's the sequel to Rules of Civility.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 15:46
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
I took a class on the novella in grad school. Some that I remember:
Jacob’s Room / Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm / George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea / Hemingway
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a masterpiece; it is very different from the film based on it, much darker and more interesting.
Jacob’s Room / Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm / George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea / Hemingway
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a masterpiece; it is very different from the film based on it, much darker and more interesting.
Anonymous
03/12/2026 16:00
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
OP, I love this idea!
Anonymous
03/12/2026 15:57
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Anonymous wrote:The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
Yes! Just read this.
Anonymous
03/12/2026 09:41
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll.
Anonymous
03/12/2026 09:35
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
+3 for anything by Claire Foster and +1 for 84 Charing Cross Road, which is like a giant hug. Went back to my goodreads and sorted by pages (who knew this was possible) and also recommending these:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Not a River by Selva Almada
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Shy by Max Porter
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Not a River by Selva Almada
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Shy by Max Porter
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Anonymous
03/12/2026 09:10
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
+1
Also O Caldonia by Elspeth Barker
+2. Love both of those.
Margaret the First, based on the real Margaret Cavendish, is also good.
Anonymous
03/12/2026 07:30
Subject: Re:Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
I am Legend by Richard Matheson, under 100 pages
Anonymous
03/12/2026 07:05
Subject: Recommend a short story/novella <150 pages
The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt