Most Read This Week In Novels

A novel is a long prose narrative that usually describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story. It rests on the consensus that the novel is today the longest genre of narrative prose, followed by the novella, novelette and the short story. However, there is no consensus as to the minimal required lenght. In part because of this wide variation, the boundary between a novella and a novel may be arbitrary and difficult to determine.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America specifies a word length of over 40,000 words for a novel, while National Novel Writing M ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Novels"

The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)

The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)

Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The Wicked and the Damned (Dark Inheritance Trilogy, #2)

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

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Quotes Tagged “Novels”

“ A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. ”
― Lorrie Moore

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“ People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

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