Novellas and Short Stories

/ Tayiba Sulaiman

NBG‘s recommendation list celebrates a wide range of writing forms; it isn’t just limited to novels and non-fiction studies. Below you’ll find a list of short story collections and novellas which have recently made the NBG recommendation list.

Short stories

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Novellas

For the purposes of the list, we’ve defined the novella as a short novel, so here you’ll find works of fiction which are under 200 pages.

[book reviews will appear here…]

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