Most Read This Week In Fiction

Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment. The ability to create fiction and other artistic works is considered to be a fundamental a ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Fiction"

The Love Hypothesis
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
The God of the Woods
The Unknown
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
The Housewife
Lessons in Chemistry
Yellowface
It Could Have Been Her
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
Happy Place
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
The Four Winds
The Secrets We Hide (North Falls, #2)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Rock Paper Scissors
Love You More
It's Not Her
Do Not Disturb
Getting Away with Murder
Want to Know a Secret?
The Romance Revival
The Last to Drown
Demon Copperhead
You Deserve to Know
The Spider Silk Scarf: A Short Story
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Love, Mom
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
Klara and the Sun
The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
Margo's Got Money Troubles
The Bodyguard
Meet Me in Paris
God's Country (Cork O'Connor, #21 )
Intermezzo
Delusional (Michael Bennett #18)
How to Ruin a Wedding
Ransom
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
The House Across the Lake
Dissection of a Murder
She Didn't See It Coming
Sunlight Finds You
The Shadow Friends (The Martini Club, #3)
Heart of Glass
Comerás flores
Do You Remember?
The Anniversary
And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings, #2)
A Heartbeat at My Feet
Gray After Dark
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
The Dinner Party: A Pick Your Poison Adventure
It's Not What You Think
The Black Orchid
Blue Sisters
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
Caller Unknown
Count My Lies
In Your Dreams (When in Rome, #4)
John Grebble Is Gone
The Oxford Detective Society (The Oxford Detective Society, #1)
Han cantado bingo
The Gift
A Pair of Aces
Beautiful World, Where Are You
I Want You to Be Happy
The Caretaker
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
You'll Be Sorry
Here One Moment
Guess Again
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2)
Her Last Breath
Summer in the City
Kill for Me, Kill for You
The MASH Up
Tropesick
Hope Rises
The Fine Art of Lying
Heather
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
The Country Road Murders
The Covenant of Water
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
The One Day You Were My Husband
Because I Killed Him (The Nine Gentlemen, #1)
Pretty Dead Things
Her Silence
Mistakes Were Made (Story Lake, #2)
The Sky Beneath Her
Tell Me What You Did
Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
The Second Honeymoon

David Foster Wallace
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ...more
David Foster Wallace

Susan  Rowland
   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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