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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Elegy, Southwest
When We Grow Up
Brother Brontë
Snowy Day and Other Stories
The Watermark
The City Changes Its Face
The South
Loca
Lion
Three Days in June
All Fours
Orbital
Good Material
Always You and Me
Martyr!
Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
Not Quite by the Book
The Vanishing Half
American Dirt
The Covenant of Water
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Fairy Tale
His Forefathers and Mick 2nd Edition
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
703 books — 553 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Godfather by Mario PuzoOne hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Family Saga Novels
789 books — 833 voters

Wonder by R.J. PalacioThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine ApplegateThe False Prince by Jennifer A. NielsenKeeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon MessengerThe Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
Middle Grade Novels of 2012
245 books — 629 voters
The da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson1984 by George Orwell
Conspiracy Fiction
1,246 books — 1,303 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth SchmittThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books that most influenced you
2,648 books — 1,211 voters

1984
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Alchemist
The Catcher in the Rye
Pride & Prejudice
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Brave New World
One hundred years of solitude
The Kite Runner
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Crime and Punishment

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