General Fiction Books
It’s never too late to have the adventure of a lifetime With her 70th birthday looming, Lauren Hillard is constantly thinking that there has to be an easier ...
“An electrifying family drama that shows the dark side of adoption, You Were Always Mine is the kind of book you will want to finish in one sitting.” ...
Before there were blogs, there were journals. And in them we'd write as we really were, not as we wanted to appear. But there comes a day when journals ...
When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, savvy marketing success story. But in the treacherous ...
Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's ...
‘The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling.’ -Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We ...
Marie Bostwick's debut novel, FIELDS OF GOLD tells the story of Evangeline Glennon, a young woman who is certain her future in Dillon, Oklahoma will be as ...
Stoneybridge is full of holiday-makers in summer, its beaches are full of buckets and spades and sandcastles; but in winter it's cold and wild. Few choose to ...
A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal-and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she ...
In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she's kept for years, a woman discovers how delicate the thread that binds family is in this ...
In Taiwan, the bond between grandmother and granddaughter opens up a healing world for them both in an inspiring family saga about the comfort of food, ...
"A fresh new voice in fiction."--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides After her father's death, Hallie Corson returns from her New York photographer's ...
A Maverick for Christmas Abigail Cates is wildly in love with Hollis "Cade" Pritchett, but he barely knows she exists. So Abigail makes up her mind to get ...
The Maverick & the Manhattanite Once volunteer co-ordinator Lissa Roarke rolls into town, everything about her rubs Sheriff Gage Christensen the wrong way. ...
A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. A young architect's life is derailed by an inquisitive girl who happens to be a ...
Containing work reprinted in Best Non-Required Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prizes 2010, the stories in Laura van den Berg's ...
Description
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment. The ability to create fiction and other artistic works is considered to be a fundamental aspect of human culture, one of the defining characteristics of humanity