A great short story cannot be topped. When a bunch of great short stories are gathered together in a book, this is even ...

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 crafted ...

These beautifully designed and illustrated books take readers into forgotten insurrections, the dreamy depths of childhood, a ...

The best one-sitting novels sweep you off your ... In the case of Anna, the protagonist of this short satirical novel, the answer is: get radicalized by Ayn Rand. Deeply in thrall to Rand ...

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. Some are contemporary ...

He is, to me, the greatest living writer of short stories; he is, also to me, not the greatest living novelist. After all the high screaming about “The Sun Also Rises,” I feared for Mr ...

Carl Jacobi’s “Revelations in Black” — originally published in 1947 by Arkham House and now reprinted by Valancourt Books — gathers the best short fiction by an important contributor to ...

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 ...

This year was a boon for whodunit readers, with great books by Donna Leon, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and more.