Thesaurus results for NOVELETTE

novelette

noun

ˌnä-və-ˈlet

as in novella

a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel bought a collection of his novels and novelettes

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Recent Examples of novelette Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650. —

Sam Kashner, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025 What began as an audio-only novelette (drawing on el-Mohtar’s own experience with the harp) has transformed into a novella with illustrations: In the town of Thistleford, Hawthorn sisters Esther and Ysabel raise their voices together to sing about everything from adventure to sadness. —

Natalie Zutter january 2, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2025 The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing. —

Yi-Ling Liu, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021 Flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes don’t usually get the same amount of attention as their longer counterparts, which is a shame. —

Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 15 Nov. 2018 Graphic novelettes issued by the U.S. Army Cyber Institute aim to educate soldiers about digital threats Stephen Cass 23 Mar 2018 3 min read Stephen Cass is the special projects editor at IEEE Spectrum. —

IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2018

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The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth creates a whole world in very few pages in this novella-length work in which even the pacing of the narrative itself does so much of the storytelling.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
In this inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby, one novella and three stories take on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.

— Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026