Sometimes, especially when in the midst of a reading slump, shorter books seem more approachable. Enter: the novella. A novella is defined as a fictional narrative that is longer than a short story but shorter than a regular novel. Another differentiating factor: Novellas tend to involve fewer conflicts than novels, but these conflicts have a bit more time to develop than in short stories. There are actually lots of debates on what novellas are and aren't (restricted to a certain page count, for example), but we'll leave that for another time.
Since we know all of you are extremely busy, we've compiled a list of short, classic works, some novels and some novellas, that are all under 200 pages (We bet you didn't know The Great Gatsby was only 180 pages).
