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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American Dirt
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Trust
The Lincoln Highway
The Bee Sting
North Woods
1984
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Alchemist
Pride and Prejudice
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Crime and Punishment
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