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)

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

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

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

The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)

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

Mint to Be (Scratch & Sniff Cover Edition)

The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

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Quotes Tagged “Novels”

“ One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. ”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“ Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. ...more ”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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