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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

It’s one of King’s best short stories, and the sheer force of his depiction of the Devil will leave you squirming. This one is more of a novella than a short story, but it appears in one of ...

These memoirs, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, nonfiction and short stories focus on Native and Indigenous stories Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...