to cut a long story short

Just a quick follow-up to expand slightly on my point about short novels from the last book post. I knocked together a list of ones that I thought were worthy of strong recommendation from my personal archives as a footnote to this book post from 2008. I was also making a point about how perfect short novels were for film adaptation, so, just to bring things up to date, here are a few short novels (which I arbitrarily define as being under 175 pages, just to suit my purposes) which have featured on this list since Utz which a) I would unreservedly recommend and b) have been adapted for the screen at least once:

• The Great Gatsby; 166 pages; adapted into a "proper" film at least four times, most recently in 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.
• One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; 143 pages, filmed in 1970 featuring Tom Courtenay in the title role and a supporting cast of mainly Norwegians.
• I Am Legend; 160 pages; filmed several times under different names and with differing amounts of deviation from the source material. The 2007 Will Smith version at least retained the title, while messing about with pretty much everything else.
• Roadside Picnic; 145 pages; filmed as Stalker in 1979. I haven't seen it but it is generally reputed to be a) a classic b) a fairly loose adaptation of the book and c) fairly glacially paced, unlike the book which is short and snappy.
• The Bridge Of San Luis Rey; 124 pages; filmed three times, most recently in 2004.

If you want further recommendations this is one of those things, like cat GIFs, pornography, and, almost certainly, cat GIF pornography, which is well-served by the internet, which loves lists. A quick Google for "best short novels" yields several lists with a variety of interesting stuff on, many of which are new to me. Obviously people's opinions differ, and there are some differences in people's definitions of "short" (and indeed "novel"), and some of the lists strive to avoid the "obvious" stuff like Animal Farm and A Clockwork Orange, so there's an interesting spread of stuff here.