Short Novels and Novellas

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

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