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"A romance novel to me is about two people that meet and they both have their own lives... When they meet, they have this instant connection... They must see each other again... They struggle with this vulnerability and fear... They communicate and realize that this connection is even stronger... They find that they just can't not be together... It's like two souls meeting."
"There might be some interest in the rather novel prospect of a Defender plug-in hybrid."
"In short, Midnight is a novel that speaks to and for our generation."
"Inspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and the unexpected paths that bring us home."
"I really respected how kristin cashore approached the romance within this novel."
"I'm very very excited at the prospect of this new scary fantasy novel."
"The futuristic nation of New Albion faces genocide. Find out what happens in 'Avoid the Machines' by Scotty Vasco."
"I'm rereading a bunch of stuff including the Andromeda Strain the novel because it ties right into the pandemic."
"Crime and Punishment is just the perfect novel."
"You can pick up a copy of our novel I am Uncle Sam in the links below."
"Francoise... kind of the backbone of the novel."
"Long Live Evil is a fantasy novel for everyone who ever rooted for the bad guy."
"People We Meet on Vacation is definitely a fun and entertaining story."
"A completed novel by Jeffrey Jenkins featuring James Bond."
"The spirit of the novel however remains intact."
"Hell's Reach is a fantastic Black Templar novel all about Grimaldis and how he became the hero of Hell's Reach."
"When it comes to ranking this novel, I could easily give this a 10 out of 10. It goes right up there with 'Hardboiled Wonderland' by Hokim Nakami for me."
"The world’s first ever novel, Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji, was written in serial form in the early 11th century."
"You have a love story that you could write into a novel."
"I've never heard something like this"
"No other novel that I've ever read, not just science fiction novel but novel period, has moved me as far over the course of reading it has affected quite as much of a change of leaving me different than when I started it than blindsight."
"For those of you who don't know Meet Me at the Summit is my young adult coming of age novel."
"Let me just see how long it is. It's a little book, a little novel."
"The novel...the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes is my favorite novel of all time."
"If you only ever read one genre SF novel, you read new romancer."
"Elantris is a really great standalone."
"If I had to vote for one novel by a living American, it would be Blood Meridian, which is a fearsome story and a terrible parable and which I think has a deep implicit warning for current American society."
"A novel about Rome, sometimes cruel and indifferent, sometimes sweet and sublime."
"Elantris is Sanderson's very first published novel and it's an incredibly unique story."
"Many people consider it to be the greatest science fiction novel ever written I can't really argue that dune it's amazing."
"Number 1: The Stand - My favorite Stephen King novel and my favorite novel of all time."
"The most extreme dinner times were in her unfinished novel 'The Watsons'."
"This is such a powerful novel that it was immediately a sensational success all across Europe and immediately at 24 years old, Goethe becomes one of the leading intellectuals in Europe on the basis of four weeks work."
"Writing a novel is like trying to cross the Atlantic in a bathtub."
"An irresistible Gothic novel about sisterhood, seances, and sapphic love."
"I'm currently reading the Star Wars Darth Plagueis novel."
"The opening of the novel is great and it really does help the reader visualize the gruesomeness of a Raptor attack."
"I knew in writing The Sympathizer that it was not just going to be a novel about the Vietnam War, it would be a novel about voice and style."
"Like the beginning of a novel, a real exciting stuff wouldn't believe it if you read about it."
"Belief in a novel is for me a byproduct of a certain kind of sentence."
"I always tell people if you want to write a novel write a novel, you know do it in pieces just you know it'll get done."
"Only The Dead, my next novel in the James Reese Terminal List series, hits shelves on May 16th."
"The novel compels us to reflect on our own moral compass and the implications of our actions."
"I feel like this is how you make a second novel a completion to a duology and like giving the readers I think exactly what they want."
"The novel transcends definition, dipping its toes into literary fiction, romantic comedy, courtroom drama, horror, epistemology, murder mystery, tragedy, and more."
"Don Quixote is often regarded as the first modern novel."
"Another big hitter obviously, the next book is 'A Personal Matter' by Kenzaburo Oe."
"One of the best endings of any novel."
"The novel's thought-provoking themes and Powerful narrative continue to Captivate readers and Inspire important discussions about the nature of humanity and the constructs that shape our worlds."
"The novel is confusing yes and maddening in myriad ways. It is also resourceful, hilarious, intelligent, and unique."
"One thing is for sure, it's definitely the biggest novel of the year."
"I thought it felt like a young adult horror novel, there are very violent horror novels for ya and this feels exactly like that."
"Lay out your outline in front of you and see a snapshot of your entire novel."
"The climax of this novel is at the 50 Mark and then the other half of this book is really an analysis of grief and loss and the aftermath of war and conflict."
"I found so overly addicted with this novel is that from the very first page we're set in this world where Ash is literally falling down from the heavens and it is just so intriguing."
"I implore you to give the novel a try and I promise that you'll love it as much, if not more than the actual film. It's really that great."
"Star Wars: Darth Plagueis is an extraordinary novel, and I highly recommend it to people like me who like to dive deeper to uncover interesting albeit extraneous information about the astropolitical nature of the galaxy at the time of the Star Wars prequel trilogy."
"In the process of coming into being, each individual person has to recapitulate the entire history of the species, and that is what this novel is about."
"Honestly, so good. I've never read a romantic novel before."
"It's an enormous space opera that's also one of the smartest pieces of science fiction you'll ever read. There is nothing like Dune, a really incredible novel."
"My favorite novel of all time: The Stand by Stephen King."
"I think if I were to write a romance novel, I would want it to be like the boys of tommen series or the addicted series."
"Considered a major example of magical realism, which 1967 novel tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family?"
"...character arc can really help you to understand even just this one two three part of character arc can really help you understand how to write your novel so it's really pretty cool."
"Your characters are just such a huge part of whether or not people are going to want to read your novel."
"Dune is seriously one of my favorite novels of all time. It was just that archetypally relevant and so philosophically deep about the nature of consciousness that it immediately became one of my favorites."
"This novel focuses on a well-off young woman living in Mexico, and her father gets a letter from her cousin."
"'What else do any of you have?' That's just one of the questions asked by this hyper-dense novel."
"Revolutionary novel and a classic of the Harlem Renaissance."
"This novel will take you so many places that you never expected, twisting and turning in search of the minotaur at the center of the labyrinth."
"I was so moved emotionally by this novel, I cried a lot reading this novel especially towards the end."
"This novel explores greed, narcissism, hatred, vanity, obsession, and extravagance. It's an inspection and condemnation of our superficial preoccupation with youth and beauty."
"It's really an amazing novel and I would definitely recommend you read it if you haven't."
"It was still very very good this book is all about Evie she's this high schooler who is obsessed with love until her dad and her mom divorce and they had a really nasty split and you kind of figure out why."
"I decided to write a novel, a science fiction novel, a political science fiction novel in which I imagined that the 2008 great financial collapse led to not just Occupy Wall Street but to a global movement that with some degree of realism built another now."
"It's also a really daringly inventive take on storytelling. It kind of breaks down what a novel can do and what a novel can be."
"One of the major questions of the novel: Is Slothrop real?"
"So I knew there was plenty of believable opportunity for the kind of conflict that I would have in the novel."
"The mediums of film and novel are vastly different and have unique strengths for specific types of stories."
"Your first chapter is also setting up kind of the tone and the feel for what readers can expect throughout the rest of the novel."
"... 'I want to do stuff that has integrity of a good movie or a good novel.' Like, literally, he's calling that out as being like, it's not... it's not that he doesn't want to do jobs."
"The novel is a city, something very much more complicated with rules that need to be broken and walls that need to be moved."
"The novel is full of unspeakable horrors except you speak them. It's full of darkness but it's carried by this huge generosity of spirit."
"The Recognitions may be my favorite 20th-century American novel, hands down."
"The Recognitions is so rich a work that Gaddis could have rested on his oars forever."
"Gaddis's book is a paradise lost out of the Dunciad, a vision of the demonic microcosm."
"David's deepest Hope was to be able to write what he called A Hard novel and have it be loved."
"This is the best standalone novel we've gotten in the Canon."
"The best Standalone novel we've gotten in the Canon... perfect Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan relationships... amazing prequel energy and prequel stuff happening in this book... just an excellent examination at the master and Apprentice relationship."
"This novel is excellent. It is basically an origin story."
"What's really important for me when I'm trying to write a novel is to convey emotions."
"I love how so many characters are very morally gray. If you love a novel full of very nice, good people, you probably won't like this book."
"Titles shine a spotlight on the heart of the novel, directing readers’ attention to an important element that thematically ties the story together."
"Thinking about what to call your novel forces you to think hard about what the novel is actually about."
"I've never really seen a book go in that direction before and it just touched on themes I don't think we see touch them a lot but like themes that I think can be really like haunting and interesting for a horror novel."
"Why fiction? Why the novel? Why tell stories in this medium?"
"...this is a cohesive novel with something to say."
"The poem or the novel is really like a town square or a synagogue."
"This novel is set in a small English town in the 1910s and revolves around our legendary famous detective Pignon Scorpion."
"It feels magical. It feels like something that comes from... a Sci-Fi novel."
"'Christmas... but not at pemberley and shared with people I've never met. You could look them up in the Bratz, I think I shall,'" mused Elizabeth."
"That literally took him 20 minutes. I mean, in the novel they said he did the push-ups, the setups, and the squats in like 2 seconds, and then the extra 10 km was like 5 minutes or so."
"The crucial element in this novel is a plan by desperate and intelligent people to blow up the entire ruling class of Spanish ring class in Manila at a wedding."
"It's his best novel which presents the most impressive and fascinating explorations of masculinity and femininity."
"The Rugrats Movie the novel has been cleaned and added the white looks way better now."
"Earthlings pretty much tackles that same message. Sayaka Marita has a clear obsession with modern society as a machine, as a cage that we all live in and have to survive within."
"One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark."
"I've never read a book like it before so... I think it's really unique for that reason."
"Heaven is the latest novel written by Miyako Kawakami to be translated into English."
"It's a novel deeply concerned with social issues."
"Clearly one of the greatest novels ever written."
"I am excited about 'Do Your Worst' by Rosie Danan. Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archaeologist become enemies with benefits in this steamy romance."
"...this is a wonderful romance and it's a novel written in letter form."
"This is the greatest novel written after World War II. I think Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake are the two greatest novels of the first half of the 20th century. This is the greatest novel of the second half."
"Ulysses actually started out in a serial form, and Joyce later decided he was going to put it together into a novel."
"I recently finished The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah."
"It's a very character-driven novel... hopefully you find the characters at the heart of it that drive me."
"The variety is the most interesting part of the novel."
"She had been reborn into one of the heroines of a novel called The Kingdom's Flowers."
"I love the novel as a genre... where emotions and thoughts can mingle, the heart and the mind can work together."
"I usually start with an image in my head of the climactic scene in the novel."
"The novel offers so much: a new gender introduction, genetic engineering, politics, AI of course, cybernetic conflict, pocket universes, and more."
"It's an incredible novel and it is one of three novels in my life to make me cry."
"The Quiet American... it was a beautifully written book that I actually enjoyed."
"It truly is arguably the greatest novel that's ever been written."
"Instead, he pitched to the literary agency that he would write a novel that he'd always wanted to write."
"The magic is absolutely there; it's a very different novel as it should be, but all the magic is there."
"Who doesn't love a small town horse girl romance, right?"
"Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert."
"It's a beautiful message kept in the same spirit of the original novel the film was based on."
"Favorite new book from the past few years? The first 15 lives of Harry August."
"A satirical novel that has a very unreliable narrator."
"A novel in verse collection of poetry where each poem feeds into an overall narrative."
"Sancho is becoming a fuller character and increasingly important to the novel."
"The novel had finally and truly come to an end."
"Morrison's novel deals with maternal love and the poisoning of that very love in the face of hardship, persecution, and bondage."
"She goes into the world of a novel and becomes a pretty princess."
"Robinson Crusoe is often cited as the first English novel."
"I'm working on a novel called Twisted Fates."
"It was very much a novel about motherhood for me."
"There's a kind of intimacy in the novel, not just between the two characters, but also in the experience of reading it."
"I wrote a novel called 'Wasting Talent'."
"Dutch is one of the rawest novels ever."
"Why have I never read a road trip romance before?"
"It's a novel that's very interested in threshold states, states where you're about to crossover from one state into another."
"I think this is a brilliant novel and really did something different with the dystopian genre."
"The novel has such immersive world building which I love."
"When you write a novel, you pass over from research into having a feel for the subject."
"The murder of Isadora Fink feels like it was lifted straight from the pages of a classic mystery novel."
"He rejects the idea of closure to the Epic; he replaces the Epic with the novel."
"The Sea Glass Summer... a moving, uplifting novel about motherhood, starting over in an unexpected summer romance."
"This is probably one of his most well-crafted novels."
"We've done bits of the novel that no one's done before."
"The Tale of Genji is the world's oldest novel."
"This mystery novel is about true friendship."
"The opening pages of your novel are the most important in the entire manuscript."
"It's just almost a perfect novel, Shogun."
"City of Strangers is one of the finest novels of our time."
"At the core of this novel is a rebellion against lowercase 'c' conservative thinking, against tradition for tradition's sake, against hierarchies, constraining rules, and outdated social norms."
"It's like watching a Kurt Vonnegut novel."
"The novel is poised to move on to something else, and I think that something else will be science."
"Watering Heights is considered by many to be the most famous romantic novel in English."
"I freaking love 'The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett."
"I finished 'Forever Interrupted' by Taylor Jenkins Reid."
"It's a coming-of-age novel which follows the story of Scout who is six years old at the beginning of the novel."
"It's a steampunk novel. It's sort of X-Men meets Hornblower."
"...it's a thrilling horror novel of mesmerism, murder, and shape-shifting terror."
"It was a page-turner, and I really wanted to know who murdered Papa Blue."
"It was an explosive first novel and might be my favorite in the series."
"It's a perfect novel if you're interested in fantasy that has really interesting magical creatures."
"The first novel in the world was written during the Heian era."
"I'd rather write a bestselling novel."
"Dr. Sleep more closely resembles what Stephen King was trying to get at with both novels."
"It's like the plot of a romance novel."
"The campfire of dreams is a great title for a novel."
"Ghost Town is a complex literary novel that explores the concept of ghosts in a lot of different ways."
"Jawbone is a horror-tinged literary novel; it's twisted and scary in some really, really creative ways."
"The red Rex, aka the novel version, is absolutely incredible."
"The development of Theo and Alicia in particular is one way in which this novel stands out."
"I always felt that reading a novel is not just an intellectual experience but a physical one too."
"To quote Napoleon, 'What a novel my life has been.'"
"She finds herself inspired for her first ever novel, which she intended to be a gritty account of the life of down and out street musicians in New Orleans."
"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel is on its way to your P.O. box."
"Fall in love with 2018's most charming novel."
"I'm starting off by working on my novel."
"It's a novel told in the form of poetry, which just sounds so cool."
"I've started a traditional novel, I've got a about halfway through a teenage superhero novel."
"Every novel I've ever written, I start with the first sentence, then I write the second and the third, and I march all the way to the last."
"The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart is so immersive."
"Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy is a delight."
"Conversations with Friends at least I quite enjoyed."
"Nadja is the quintessential French surrealist novel."
"The imagery in this novel is unlike anything I've ever read."
"Her second novel, 'Normal People,' I am a huge fan of. I really enjoy that book."
"The act of writing a novel is that you actually can discover aspects of yourself that you were completely unaware of."
"This is the first moment that I have read my first novel and felt like it's a book."
"It's a really fascinating, like character-driven novel at the end of the day."
"A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice, and survival."
"I am pumped to announce that I have a novel coming out... 'The Last Election'."
"The novel can teach us something in a more compelling way than these other forms can."