Short Novels and Novellas
Marlon and Jake talk short books they love, syllabus staples to skip (Hemingway die-hards, consider yourselves warned), and their first-ever real-time joint read, Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. What does Marlon consider the closest thing to a perfect novel? Tune in to find out!
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
- Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
