Novella

A novella is a written, fictional and prose narrative, usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.

A novella generally features fewer conflicts than a novel, yet more complicated ones than a short story. The conflicts also have more time to develop than in short stories. They have endings that are located at the brink of change. Unlike novels, they are not divided into chapters, and are often intended to be read at a single sitting, as the short story, although white space is often used to divide the sections. They maintain, therefore, a single effect.

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The Halifax Hellions (Halifax Hellions, #1-2)
The Heir & the Spare (Of Flesh & Bone #4.5)
The Rainseekers
The Rival Upgrade (Love and Hockey #6.5)
Neo (Valentino-Petrov Heirs Novella)
The Wake-Up Call: A Marriage-In-Trouble Novella
Of Beasts
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
The Daughter Who Remains (She Who Knows, #3)
Sticks & Stones
Night Owl Bridge (A Story in the World of the Sea Wicche Book 2)
As Old As Thyme
Fight For Love
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl
NO PASSENGERS: A Fast Paced Fugitive Thriller Novella (DISPLACED Book 1)
The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
The Price of Honey
Everybody's Favorite Guy
Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
Small Things Like These
Accidentally Yours
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
The Gift
The Fall Risk (Valentine's Day #2)
Time Will Tell
Fearful (The Powerless Trilogy, #3.5)
Three Days in June
Vigil
Death to Valentine's Day
The Buy-In by Emma St. ClairSummerhaven by Tiffany OdekirkThe Bluff by Emma St. ClairHunted by K.M. SheaEloise and the Grump Next Door by Emma St. Clair
2022 Swoony Awards
516 books — 596 voters
All Systems Red by Martha WellsWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
[ATY 2023] Novella
375 books — 92 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanMy Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi NagataUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaZami by Audre Lorde
Books by Lesbians of Colour
302 books — 65 voters
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangHouston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.All Systems Red by Martha WellsThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarAsimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011 by Sheila Williams
Nebula Award: Best Novella
53 books — 21 voters


All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
Binti (Binti, #1)
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Small Things Like These
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Destroy Me (Shatter Me, #1.5)
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