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)

Before You Were Anne (Chelsey Calhoun, #2)

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

The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)

The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

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“ V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

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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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