Lithub's Top 50 Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
Literary Hub (Lithub) is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. In 2020 they published their list of the best contemporary novels under 200 pages. Contemporary was defined as being first published in English in 1970 or afterwards. https://lithub.com/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages/
- 1
The Vegetarian
Kang Han · 2004 · 6 lists
- 2
Sula
Toni Morrison · 1973 · 5 lists
- 3
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 1982 · 4 lists
- 4
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes · 2011 · 4 lists
- 5
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter · 2015 · 3 lists
- 6
Never Mind
Edward St Aubyn · 1992 · 3 lists
- 7
Speedboat
Renata Adler · 1976 · 3 lists
- 8
The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka · 2011 · 3 lists
- 9
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson · 1964 · 3 lists
- 10
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982 · 2 lists
- 11
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson · 1998 · 2 lists
- 12
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2016 · 2 lists
- 13
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill · 2014 · 2 lists
- 14
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector · 1943 · 2 lists
- 15
Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba · 2017 · 2 lists
- 16
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante · 2002 · 2 lists
- 17
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 1983 · 2 lists
- 18
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson · 2006 · 2 lists
- 19
Visitation
Jenny Erpenbeck · 1961 · 2 lists
- 20
We the Animals
Justin Torres · 2011 · 2 lists
- 21
Why Did I Ever
Mary Robison · 2001 · 2 lists
- 22
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox · 1970 · 1 list
- 23
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Donald Antrim · 1993 · 1 list
- 24
Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli · 2010 · 1 list
- 25
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin · 2014 · 1 list
- 26
Ghosts
César Aira · 1887 · 1 list
- 27
Hôtel Splendid
Marie Redonnet · 1941 · 1 list
- 28
In the Cut
Susanna Moore · 1995 · 1 list
- 29
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner · 2011 · 1 list
- 30
Machine
Susan Steinberg · 1895 · 1 list
- 31
Mapping the Interior
Stephen Graham Jones · 2017 · 1 list
- 32
Margaret the First
Danielle Dutton · 2016 · 1 list
- 33
Mariette in Ecstasy
Ron Hansen · 1991 · 1 list
- 34
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2014 · 1 list
- 35
Mrs Caliban
Rachel Ingalls · 1982 · 1 list
- 36
Old School
Tobias Wolff · 2007 · 1 list
- 37
Point Omega
Don DeLillo · 2010 · 1 list
- 38
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera · 2020 · 1 list
- 39
Slowness
Milan Kundera · 1994 · 1 list
- 40
Sweet Days of Discipline
Fleur Jaeggy · 1991 · 1 list
- 41
Sylvia
Leonard Michaels · 2003 · 1 list
- 42
The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald · 1919 · 1 list
- 43
The Loser
Thomas Bernhard · 1983 · 1 list
- 44
The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker · 1988 · 1 list
- 45
The Orange Eats Creeps
Grace Krilanovich · 2010 · 1 list
- 46
Treasure Island!!!
Sara Levine · 1883 · 1 list
- 47
What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell · 2016 · 1 list
- 48
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Lorrie Moore · 1994 · 1 list
- 49
Winter in the Blood
James Welch · 1974 · 1 list
