Young ADULT NOVELS!!

“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”

Young-adult fiction or young adult literature   is fiction written, published, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, although recent studies show that 55% of young-adult fiction is purchased by readers over 18 years of age. The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA) defines a young adult as someone between the ages of twelve and eighteen.  The terms young-adult novel, juvenile novel, young-adult book, etc. refer to the works in the YA category.

YA literature shares the following fundamental elements of the fiction genre: character, plot, setting, theme, and style. However, theme and style are often subordinated to the more tangible elements of plot, setting, and character, which appeal more readily to younger readers. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent, rather than an adult or child, as the protagonist.

ROMANCE NOVELS

“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”

The romance novel or romantic novel is a literary genre. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, these novels are commercially in two main varieties: category romances, which are shorter books with a one-month shelf-life, and single-title romances, which are generally longer with a longer shelf-life.[citation needed] However in classical times, Romances were considered very basic literature and reading a romance a plebeian activity. Separate from their type, a romance novel can exist within one of many subgenres, including contemporary, historical, science fiction and paranormal.

THRILLER NOVELS

“The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...”

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements.Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.

A thriller provides the sudden rush of emotions, excitement, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace thrills. It keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.

Common sub genres are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, erotic thrillers and mystery thrillers. Another common sub genre of thriller is the spy genre which deals with fictional espionage. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The horror and action genres often overlap with the thriller genre. Thrillers tend to be psychological, threatening, mysterious and at times involve larger-scale villainy such as espionage, terrorism and conspiracy.

MYSTERY NOVELS

“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.

It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction—in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfictional. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle/suspense element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism.

Although normally associated with the crime genre, the term "mystery fiction" may in certain situations refer to a completely different genre, where the focus is on supernatural or thriller mystery (the solution does not have to be logical, and even no crime is involved). This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, where titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery and Spicy Mystery offered what at the time were described as "weird menace" stories—supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol. This contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of "mystery" in this sense was by Dime Mystery, which started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine but switched to "weird menace" during the latter part of 1933.

NON-FICTION NOVELS

The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events woven together with fictitious allegations and using the storytelling techniques of fiction. The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely defined and flexible genre. The genre is sometimes referred to as or faction, a portmanteau of "fact" and "fiction".

Popular Non Fiction Books

Popular Non Fiction Books

1.The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)

by Anne Frank (shelved 6377 times as non-fiction)

avg rating 4.05 — 1,223,078 ratings — published 1947

2.Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)

by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 5275 times as non-fiction)

avg rating 3.84 — 425,032 ratings — published 2005

3.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)

by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 4141 times as non-fiction)

avg rating 4.04 — 273,728 ratings — published 2010

4.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)

by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 3822 times as non-fiction)

avg rating 3.80 — 384,003 ratings — published 2000

5.The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 3819 times as non-fiction)

Avg rating 3.96 — 253,733 ratings — published 2002

FICTION NOVELS

"Fiction has three main elements: plotting, character, and place or setting."

Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not real, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical, cinematic, or musical work. Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual (or, at least, assumed factual) events, descriptions, observations, etc.

"A charged image evokes all the other elements of your story—theme, character, conflict, setting, style, and so on."

"For writers, the spices you add to make your plot your own include characters, setting, and dialogue."

Popular Fiction Novels Books

1.The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby (Paperback)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 18 times as fiction-novels)

avg rating 3.81 — 1,636,995 ratings — published 19

2.To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)

by Harper Lee (shelved 18 times as fiction-novels)

 3.Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

by Suzanne Collins (shelved 15 times as fiction-novels)

avg rating 4.03 — 1,138,507 ratings — published 2010

4.The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)

by Suzanne Collins (shelved 15 times as fiction-novels)

avg rating 4.43 — 2,234,435 ratings — published 2008

5.Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

by Suzanne Collins (shelved 14 times as fiction-novels) 

CLASSIC NOVELS

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

A classic book is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, either through an imprimatur such as being listed in any of the Western canons or through a reader's own personal opinion. The term itself is closely related to Western Canon and to various college/university Senior Comprehensive Examination Reading Lists. What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?" and "What Is a Classic?" have been essayed by authors from different genres and eras (Calvino, T. S. Eliot, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve). The ability of a classic book to be reinterpreted, to seemingly be renewed in the interests of generations of readers succeeding its creation, is a theme that is seen in the writings of literary critics including Michael Dirda, Saint-Beuve and Ezra Pound.

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”