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 Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
The Intruder
The Love Hypothesis
The Midnight Library
A Heart for Christmas: My Advent Novel
Reminders of Him
The Gift
The Kill Clause
Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
Beach Read
Lessons in Chemistry
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
Yellowface
Happy Place
The Widow
One by One
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Guest List
Theo of Golden
The Four Winds
Demon Copperhead
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Rock Paper Scissors
We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
Hamnet
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
She Didn't See It Coming
The Fall Risk
25 Days
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
The Wife Upstairs
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Love, Mom
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
The Bodyguard
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8)
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
Holiday Hideaway
A Merry Little Lie
Do You Remember?
Blue Sisters
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
What She Saw
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
Here One Moment
Nash Falls (Walter Nash, #1)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Yours for the Season
The House Across the Lake
The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
Want to Know a Secret?
The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20)
Wonka
Klara and the Sun
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
Margo's Got Money Troubles
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
Beautiful World, Where Are You
The Fix
All Her Fault
You Killed Me First
Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)
Christmas Presents
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
Maid for Each Other
Writers & Lovers
Mad Mabel
One Snowy Day
You Deserve to Know
The Woman in Suite 11  (Lo Blacklock, #2)
Kill for Me, Kill for You
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
It's a Love Story
Snake-Eater
My Merry Mistake (Holidays with Hart, #3)
The Situationship (Part of Your World, #3.5)
A Christmas Truce
The Everlasting
Tell Me What You Did
Fairy Tale
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Covenant of Water
A Ferry Merry Christmas
Everyone Is Lying to You
Too Old for This
Count My Lies
Guess Again
The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)
Long Bright River
Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20)
The Devils (The Devils, #1)

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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