Drama novels to read online
No villain, no convenient culprit: people who did what they could with what they knew. These novels tell of lives that tip on a decision made in five minutes — taking a job, keeping a diagnosis quiet, letting someone go without saying anything. You read them for the accuracy of the dialogue and for that feeling, on the last page, of having known these people. The first chapters are free.
I Am Not Chiara
On a night of fireworks on Lake Como, a thirteen-year-old girl vani…
I Heard Her Cry
On 30 March 1985, in Seville, an eighteen-year-old girl was told he…
The Night of the Léopoldville
2,235 soldiers boarded her on Christmas Eve. At 5:54 p.m., a torped…
Everybody Knew
For ten years she counted the cellar steps. Seventeen years later, …
They Killed Lincoln
For six nights she made the bed of a guest whose name she never cau…
Three Hundred Thousand
There are one million two hundred thousand of them on the roads. Th…
My Grandmother's Friend
For forty-two years the whole family said “your grandmother's frien…
The Twenty Missing Minutes
The same route, the same habits. But that morning, twenty minutes w…
After the Beep
His wife has been dead for three months. At 2.17 a.m. the phone rin…
First Person
Her job is to say “I” while being somebody else. Once, she left thr…
Juror Number Seven
Thirteen days to judge a man. And one thing he cannot tell anyone.