Keep scrolling for a curated selection of some of the best short novels of all time. Shop now. As you may well know, the story behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus was ...

Having read them all, it is more of a mixed bag than I hoped – while two are easily the best books I’ve read all year, there ...

The one-sitting novel ... best way possible. Read a profile of Lockwood here at Esquire. Beginning indelibly with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s short ...

in the best way possible. Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s short but sweeping novel gives voice to three generations of a ...

Hemingway’s style, this prose stripped to its firm young bones, is far more effective, far more moving, in the short story than in the novel. He is, to me, the greatest living writer of short ...

This list of best fantasy books and series compiles classics and newer, innovative works that have made a big impact in a short time. Fantasy novels include anything set in an imaginary world ...