General Fiction Books
Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of ...
Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who ...
A quirky, nervous wreck of a New England mom is forced to face her many fears in this touching, irresistible novel from author Kristin Bair. Agatha Arch's ...
From the bestselling author of Wish Me Home comes a breathtaking novel about the secrets that families keep and one woman’s illuminating search for the ...
As victims of their parents' unhappy marriage, both Joanne and Kate grow up with very different views of what love is but also what it is not. Kate now ...
“A mesmerizing, head-spinning-and sometimes madcap-hilarious-take of have and have-nots.”-People (Book of the Week) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...
A sixty-three-year-old college football coach whose legendary status has soured after years of losing teams hopes that his terminal case of cancer will win ...
The novel is narrated by William Cody, born in London in 1970 and brought up alone by his father, Issac. To bridge the generation gap between them, his ...
'Wow. Just wow. This book is really going to stick with me. It opened my eyes to SO MUCH and felt so genuine and real' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Deeply moving ...
Forty-nine-year-old Frances (Frosty) Ryan has always been the perfect political wife, mother and stepmother to U.S. Senator Mitchell Stewart and their four ...
Grief. Hope. Love. Sword fights. And the crisp glory of fried okra. Ex-cocktail waitress and "convenience story professional" Eudora "Pea" O'Brien is filled ...
A knitting retreat gets knotty in this humorous and poignant novel about love, second chances, and the unyielding bonds between mothers and ...
"The perfect summer beach read! Rival bookshops, second chance romance, friend drama, it was the perfect book to curl up and escape to the Cape.’ -Pamela ...
**THE BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW** **THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE: BOOKS OF 2025** THEY'RE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. OR SO THEY SAY... ⭐ 'Brilliant: so funny, so ...
Dear Elizabeth, It's early morning and I'm sitting here wondering where you are, hoping you're all right. A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the ...
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