fiction
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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 e...more
popular fiction books (showing 1-50 of 94,714)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 2901 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 300,256 ratings — published 2000
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 2629 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 328,343 ratings — published 1960
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GCSE "Catcher in the Rye" (Letts Explore)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 2486 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.47 — 18 ratings — published 1945
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 2342 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 253,764 ratings — published 1922
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1984 (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 2149 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 207,669 ratings — published 1949
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 2057 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 244,604 ratings — published 1999
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1912 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 311,473 ratings — published 1997
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 1890 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 114,710 ratings — published 2003
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Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 1878 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 204,187 ratings — published 1954
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Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 1861 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 204,160 ratings — published 1945
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 1849 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 166,680 ratings — published 2003
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 1788 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 195,068 ratings — published 1997
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1773 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 245,647 ratings — published 2006
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Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 1771 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,593 ratings — published 2001
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Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1711 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,307 ratings — published 1813
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1707 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 230,328 ratings — published 1999
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1706 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 229,910 ratings — published 1998
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1664 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,802 ratings — published 2005
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1654 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 230,795 ratings — published 2000
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The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 1616 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 171,897 ratings — published 2002
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 1609 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 227,237 ratings — published 2003
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 1587 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 137,003 ratings — published 2000
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The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 1574 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 182,952 ratings — published 2002
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The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 1547 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,516 ratings — published 1937
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Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 1543 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 199,245 ratings — published 1937
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 1432 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,579 ratings — published 1969
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Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 1406 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 122,363 ratings — published 2002
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by Mark Twain (shelved 1365 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 183,252 ratings — published 1884
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Vrli novi svijet (Hard cover)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 1356 times as fiction)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1932
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Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 1347 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 133,547 ratings — published 1847
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Twilight (Twilight, #1)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 1339 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 276,149 ratings — published 2005
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La carretera (Rústica.18.90 €)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 1311 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2006
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Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 1284 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,381 ratings — published 2006
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 1266 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.35 — 100,336 ratings — published 1995
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The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 1256 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 65,530 ratings — published 1985
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 1254 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 123,089 ratings — published 1998
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 1228 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 152,767 ratings — published 1988
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 1192 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 113,890 ratings — published 1967
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Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 1151 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 99,128 ratings — published 1953
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 1106 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,160 ratings — published 2006
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 1090 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,705 ratings — published 1958
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (shelved 1083 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.29 — 51,592 ratings — published 1850
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Catch-22 (Paperback)
by Joseph Heller (shelved 1074 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 52,762 ratings — published 1955
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Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 1072 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 162,283 ratings — published 1867
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مرتفعات ويذرينج
by Emily Brontë (shelved 1058 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 19 ratings — published 1847
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 1020 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 30 ratings — published 1951
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The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 986 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,320 ratings — published 1939
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New Moon (Twilight, #2)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 981 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 189,956 ratings — published 2006
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Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 947 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 92,584 ratings — published 1818
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Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan (shelved 930 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 53,287 ratings — published 2001
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"I can't go on, I'll go on."
— Samuel Beckett (I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Work)
— Samuel Beckett (I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Work)
"Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
