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
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Autumn
The Angel of History
Lost Stars
The Mortifications
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A Soldier's Revenge (Spycatcher #6)
Exile on Bridge Street
Angel in the Rain
A Man Called Ove
Small Great Things
The Whistler
All the Light We Cannot See
Commonwealth
The Nightingale
Walk Into Silence (Detective Jo Larsen, #1)
Two By Two
This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)
Before the Fall
Today Will Be Different
The Nest
My Name Is Lucy Barton
One Indian Girl
Nutshell
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Pride and Prejudice
The Kite Runner
Lord of the Flies
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hobbit
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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G.K. Chesterton
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

Nicholas Sparks
And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.
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