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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Getting ready: NOVELLAS IN NOVEMBER


It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck.

There are no categories this year, although participants are invited to start the month with a My Year in Novellas retrospective looking at any novellas read since last NovNov, and finish it with a New to My TBR list based on the novellas that others have tempted them with over the course of the month.

There are also two buddy reads this year – Seascraper by Benjamin Wood and Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. I have Seascaper on hold at the library since it is a nominated Booker Prize longlisted book so I was already going to read it before I knew it was a read-along choice for the month. I will need to see if Sister Outsider is available at the library, too.

Here are some of my possible options for my novella month:

Short Classics

  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972, 166 pages)
  • Flatland by Edwin Abbott (1884, 96 pages)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1962, 192 pages)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks (1961, 150 pages)
  • White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1848, 84 pages)
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937, 107 pages)
Short Fiction

  • Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser (2024, 192 pages)
  • We the Animals by Justin Torres (2011, 128 pages)
  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (2016, 163 pages)
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (2019. 209 pages)
  • The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri (2025, 192 pages)
  • Audition by Katie Kitamura (2025, 197 pages)
Nonfiction (I know, not really a novella!)

  • Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki (2015, 135 pages)


-Anne
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