The following list shows novels with under 80000 words. The numbers below are approximate, but should be very, very close unless a qualifying statement is included. The novels on this list include some older books and more recent publications in a variety of genres. The list is in no way complete or a representative sample across languages or cultures.
James Baldwin Giovanni’s Room 70000 (estimate)
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine 67431
Don Delillo Running Dog 66028
Don Delillo End Zone 60133
Clyde Edgerton Walking Across Egypt 62000 (estimate)
Anne Enright The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch 72694
Janet Evanovich Plum Spooky 68103
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying 57009
Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo 56260 (estimate)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold fewer than 40000 (estimate)
Graham Greene The Quiet American 59431
Graham Greene The Ministry of Fear 71113
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 62857
Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man 58726
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon 67293
William Kennedy Ironweed 67606
Ursula K. Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 59664
Ursula K. Le Guin Coming of Age in Karhide 60826
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 58580
Elmore Leonard Hombre 41788
Elmore Leonard The Big Bounce 64795
Jay McInerney Bright Lights, Big City 46963
Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster c.40000 (estimate)
Michael Ondaatje Coming Through Slaughter fewer than 43000 (perhaps as few as 39000)
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 46728
Barry Unsworth Pascali's Island 65581
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 39362
Jonathan Tel Freud's Alphabet fewer than 44000
John Steinbeck Cannery Row 50368
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 53676
Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night 49053
Daniel Woodrell Tomato Red 58500 (estimate)
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse 68796
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 63479