The novelist Cynan Jones once wrote that in brief fiction, “every word is doing a job. So pay attention. A short novel is an event, not a trip.” The Swedish Academy recognized that this week ...

In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long ...

If you're seeking some inspiration for your summer reading list, here are my top 10 reads of 2025 so far, featuring a variety ...

In spite of my zeal for short books, I still mostly read longer novels. This year, I moved away from Goodreads, which I only ever updated haphazardly, seeking to gain privacy and stanch the flow ...

Best holiday books 2025. From romance to thriller novels, we've rounded up the must-read holiday books of the summer reviewed by the HELLO! team.

And if you’ve been looking to get into short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start. We’ve gathered eleven of the best short story collections.

From the blisteringly contemporary to the classic, the lighthearted to the weighty, here are our favorite short, one-sitting novels under 250 pages.

Spreading to little more than 100 pages only thanks to "large print and generous spacing", Alan Bennett's new book – his first in five years – is essentially a "short story", said Dominic ...

Here's the official reading order of The Witcher books to get you properly acquainted with Geralt of Rivia, Ciri, Jaskier and more.

Comment Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time. We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to ...

The Slip: A Novel by Lucas Schaefer. When I first read about The Slip, I couldn't have been more intrigued: Not only did the book draw comparisons to Nathan Hill's The Nix, one of my favorite ...