Novellas in November 2025 was a roaring success: In total, we had 50 bloggers contributing 216 posts covering at least 207 books! The buddy read(s) had 14 participants. It was our best year yet – thank you.
*For the curious, our most reviewed book was The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (4 reviews), followed by The Most by Jessica Anthony (3). Authors covered three times: Franz Kafka and Christian Kracht. Authors with work(s) reviewed twice: Margaret Atwood, Nora Ephron, Hermann Hesse, Claire Keegan, Irmgard Keun, Thomas Mann, Patrick Modiano, Edna O’Brien, Clare O’Dea, Max Porter, Brigitte Reimann, Ivana Sajko, Georges Simenon, Colm Tóibín and Stefan Zweig.*
Check out all the posts here:
Bookish Beck = Rebecca Foster. American transplant to England. Freelance proofreader and book reviewer.
Bookish Beck 
TBR-expansion ahoy!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Woohoo! Off we go!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Folks can find dozens of novella recommendations at WaferThinBooks.com.
LikeLiked by 1 person
A great resource. Thank you!
LikeLike
Looking forward to it!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for your post!
LikeLike
[…] It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
I’m saving Three Days in June by Anne Tyler for this, and I just got a couple Muriel Sparks books which are short, so I’ll be reading at least two. Not sure if I’ll put up a participation post or now. We’ll see. Thanks for hosting this.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Terrific! I really enjoyed the Tyler. Spark is a great author for this challenge.
LikeLiked by 1 person
[…] in November by reading a bunch of novellas, but this year, I see Beck has already launched a Linky for planning posts. (Maybe they did this last year, too, and I just didn’t notice.) So, here I am throwing […]
LikeLike
[…] but this is only the 4th year I’ve taken part. Hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck it runs from 1st to 30th […]
LikeLike
I am glad you posted this early – I will have a think!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great — we’d love to have you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
[…] almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. It’s now in it’s sixth year. I took part in 2020, 2021 and […]
LikeLike
[…] It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] for the 1925 Club hosted by Kaggsy and Simon and in preparation for Novellas in November and German Literature […]
LikeLike
Count me in! I always look forward to Novellas in November! I’ve added my sign-up post to the InLinkz. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hooray!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Is this the same linky where we link up our review posts and our post about all the novellas we read in 2025 up to this event?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes please! I’ll continue adding more link parties as needed — we usually get to a 5th by the end of November!
LikeLiked by 1 person
[…] Up: Novellas in November, Non-Fiction November, German Literature Month and Margaret Atwood Reading […]
LikeLike
[…] to Novellas in November! The link-up is open (see my pinned post). At the start of the month, we’re inviting you to tell us about any novellas you’ve read since […]
LikeLike
[…] is co-hosted by Cathy @Cathy746books and Rebecca @bookishbeck to join just post a joining in blogpost and add the link via either of the hosts Link-up post […]
LikeLike
[…] idea from the lovely Simon at Stuck in a Book as a curtain-raiser to Novellas in November hosted by Rebecca and Cathy. So, here is my A-Z of novellas and short NF all under 200 pages worth reading – […]
LikeLike
[…] @746 Books and Rebecca @Bookish Bec are once again hosting Novellas in November. Thanks to NovNov I now actively search through the new […]
LikeLike
[…] November, so it’s time for another yearly event, Novellas in November. I’ll start out this post with a recap of the novella reading I did during the year and […]
LikeLike
For some reason, the Linky posted my review of The Sweet Dove Died twice, with two different pictures, even though I only did it once. I couldn’t figure out how to delete the second one. Sorry about that.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I beat you to it with the link 😉 Don’t worry, I’ll delete the duplicate.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh my gosh! You were incredibly fast!
LikeLike
I’ll pay attention to that next time. I was sitting there thinking I was posting the one that you had already posted and that for some reason it already showed up before I clicked the button. Because I could see it was mine.
LikeLike
I’m sat working at my computer and I spotted the pingback coming into my inbox 🙂 Unless I add the links right away, I forget to. Now that I know you’ll add to the linky, I’ll let you do it! (Some people don’t.)
LikeLike
[…] @746 Books and Rebecca @Bookish Bec are hosting Novellas in November. and this year I am going to participate! I already have one […]
LikeLike
[…] German Literature Month, as hosted by Caroline and Tony this year, and Novella November hosted by Bookish Beck and Cathy. The joys of being based in Germany now, of course, is that I can find lesser-known (and […]
LikeLike
[…] in either of the two major reading projects that run this month, Nonfiction November and Novellas in November. But I do very much like a retrospective, and both of these offer the opportunity to look back on […]
LikeLike
[…] Click on the logo to join Hosted by Cathy at 746 books Rebecca at Bookish Beck All the posts can be linked at Rebecca’s […]
LikeLike
Rebecca, looks like you added y post to the list. I hd scheduled it for early morning. And now that I am up, I went to add my link. I was thrileld to see someone else apparently read Confusion, but when I clicked on it, I discovered it was my post, lol.
Thanks
LikeLiked by 1 person
As soon as I get a pingback (if I’m sat at my computer), I add the link in so it doesn’t get missed. Sorry to confuse you!
LikeLike
[…] seller: a bookshop and a publisher respectively! Both books form part of my Nonfiction November and Novellas in November […]
LikeLike
[…] Read for Cathy and Bec’s Novellas in November […]
LikeLike
[…] I’ve finished at work now and my leaving gift was bookshop.org vouchers (to quote my colleague: “Tell me what you want so you don’t get some rubbish you’ll never use” 😀 ) which of course I started spending the same day! My first purchase was two novellas because it is #NovNov after all, hosted by hosted by Cathy and Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] High off the enjoyment of reading Eurotrash, I requested Imperium from the Library and picked it up the week before last. It seemed to make the perfect choice as a second book for #NovellaNovember, which is hosted by Cathy @746 Books and Rebecca @Bookish Bec. […]
LikeLike
[…] This is once more a way of combining two November reading challenges: German Literature Month, as hosted by Caroline and Tony, and Novella November hosted by Bookish Beck and Cathy. […]
LikeLike
Here’s my latest, conveniently also for German Lit Month!
https://anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/11/klausen-2002-by-andreas-maier-2010-translation-by-kenneth-j-northcott/
LikeLiked by 1 person
A lot of people are doubling up for those two challenges — it’s an excellent idea!
LikeLiked by 1 person
[…] With everything that’s been going on for me with work it’s taken me some time to get to it, but at 118 pages it’s a perfect Novellas in November read, hosted by Cathy and Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] is co-hosted by Cathy @Cathy746books and Rebecca @bookishbeck to join just post a joining in blogpost and add the link via either of the hosts Link-up post […]
LikeLike
[…] I’m not quite sure what to make of this novella, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize but did not make the shortlist. It’s an atmospheric, closely observed story set in the 1950s that seems as if it is from an earlier time. I read it for Novellas in November. […]
LikeLike
[…] Click to join Hosted by Cathy at 746 books Rebecca at Bookish […]
LikeLike
My latest novella by a Nobel Laureate:
https://bronasbooks.com/2025/11/13/ballerina-patrick-modiano/
LikeLike
Two down, two to go!
LikeLiked by 1 person
[…] Novellas in November is hosted by Cathy at 746 Books and Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] Read for NovNov with Cathy and Bec. […]
LikeLike
[…] Novellas in November is hosted by Cathy at 746 Books and Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] in either of the two major reading projects that run this month, Nonfiction November and Novellas in November. But I do very much like a retrospective, and both of these offer the opportunity to look back on […]
LikeLike
[…] is co-hosted by Cathy @Cathy746books and Rebecca @bookishbeck to join just post a joining in blogpost and add the link via either of the hosts Link-up post […]
LikeLike
[…] is an unusual little book, which I read for Novellas in November. It is based on the experiences of Japanese women brought to California as brides in the early 20th […]
LikeLike
I just realized I had been forgetting to add my books to the Linky, so I just did a bunch. However, I didn’t see The Sweet Dove Died, but now I see it was added in the comments, so it’s in twice.
LikeLike
Oh, maybe you’ve been adding them all for me, because I see Seascraper, too.
LikeLike
Yep, those two were part of previous link parties 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oops!
LikeLike
[…] Read for NovNov with Cathy and Bec […]
LikeLike
[…] My Around the World in 80 Books reading challenge is much neglected, so I was pleased to find a novella from a Sengalese writer in my local charity bookshop/goldmine, in time for Novellas in November hosted by Cathy and Bookish Beck. […]
LikeLike
[…] fourth novella I chose (via eeny meeny miney mo) for Novellas in November is about two real figures in Medieval literature, Margery Kempe and the anchoress Julian of […]
LikeLike
[…] selection of novellas and short-form nonfiction that I shall select from as they take my fancy for Novellas in November #NovNov25. There’s little point in predicting which nonfiction I will actually read from the […]
LikeLike