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Goodreads "World's Greatest Novellas"

This is a category of literature dear to my own heart and also perhaps to those constrained in reading time. Novellas are a great way to expand the breadth of your reading, so this challenge could prove a useful guide to that end.
According to Goodreads , "a novella is a fictional prose narrative, as a rule of thumb more than 20,000 but fewer than 50,000 words in length. These boundaries are approximate....."
Notes:
* Some of these books are collections of novellas with the book itself several hundred pages long.
* "Una Historia De Ayer" appears twice on the source list; it has been translated in 2021 as 'A Story of Yesterday'
* I have removed some books grossly exceeding the criteria above; also some duplicates.
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
1
George Orwell
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
2
John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
3
Ernest Hemingway
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
4
Franz Kafka
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
5
Albert Camus
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
6
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
A Christmas Carol (Penguin Classics)
A Christmas Carol
7
Penguin Classics
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8
Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
9
Joseph Conrad
Una Historia De Ayer (Sergio Cobo)
Una Historia De Ayer
10
Sergio Cobo
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
11
Anthony Burgess
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
12
Hermann Hesse
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
13
Truman Capote
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon
14
Daniel Keyes
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
15
Voltaire
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
16
Jack London
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
17
Leo Tolstoy
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
The Time Machine
18
H. G. Wells
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
19
Herman Melville
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
The Pearl
20
John Steinbeck
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
21
Kate Chopin
Notes From Underground, White Nights, the Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground, White Nights, the Dream of a Ridiculous Man
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night
23
Elie Wiesel
The Dead (James Joyce)
The Dead
24
James Joyce
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
25
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chronicle of Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez)
Chronicle of Death Foretold
26
Gabriel García Márquez
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
27
Edith Wharton
Chess Story (Stefan Zweig)
Chess Story
28
Stefan Zweig
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
29
Shirley Jackson
The Overcoat (Nikolai Gogol)
The Overcoat
30
Nikolai Gogol
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
In the Penal Colony
31
Franz Kafka
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
32
Stephen King
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
33
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller
34
Henry James
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach/USA)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
35
Richard Bach/USA
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall
36
Albert Camus
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
Anthem
37
Ayn Rand
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction (J.D. Salinger)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
38
J.D. Salinger
The Heart of a Dog (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Heart of a Dog
39
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
40
Carson McCullers
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