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Fiction

• An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.


• The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.


• A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.


• The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.


• Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.


• To most people “the latest fiction” means the latest novels or stories rather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie. All three senses of the word fiction point back to its source, Latin ficti, “the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned.” Ficti in turn was derived from fingere, “to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse.” Our first instance of fiction, recorded in a work composed around 1412, was used in the sense “invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented.” It is not a far step from this meaning to the sense “imaginative literature,” first recorded in 1599.

The list of books 

• The Christmas Horse by Glenn Balch


• The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, Book 1) by Lloyd Alexander


• Backup: A Story of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher


• Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark


• Arctic Drift (Dirk Pitt Series #20) by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler


• The Gate House by Nelson DeMille


• Warriors Field Guide: Secrets of the Clans by Erin Hunter


• The Toff Goes to Market by John Creasey


• Sport for the Baron by John Creasey


• Miss Melville Returns: A Novel by Evelyn K. Smith


• Gloryhits by Bob Stickgold, Mark Noble


• The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg


• Wildcat Spirit (High School Musical: Stories from East High #2) by Catherine Hapka


• The Hero of Ages (Mistborn Series, Book 3) by Brandon Sanderson


• Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein


• Freshman Heartbreak (Freshman Dorm #15) by Linda A. Cooney


• Sin and Salvation (The Unseen #4) by Richie Tankersley Cusick


• The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame, Book 1) by Joel Rosenberg


• Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice


• 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg


• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson


• Donorboy by Brendan Halpin


• Candy by Kevin Brooks


• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer


• The Surprise Party by R. L. Stine


• A Dog on Barkham Street by Mary Stolz


• Love in a Bottle by Zoe Archer


• Straight From Boothill by William Hopson


• The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories by Anna Lee Walters


• The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke by Stephanie Cowell.