Best Fiction Books
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| Book | Author | Genre | User Rating | Buy | Reviews |
| Battlefield Earth | L. Ron Hubbard | sci-fi | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | literature | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | adventure | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | adventure | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Wheel of Time | Robert Jordan | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | romance | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | sci-fi | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | sci-fi | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Philip K Dick | sci-fi | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | adventure | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | J.R.R Tolkien | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | J.R.R Tolkien | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | 10.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | literature | 9.5/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | literature | 9.3/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | literature | 9.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | adventure | 9.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| She | H. Rider Haggard | adventure | 9.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | adventure | 8.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | adventure | 8.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | sci-fi | 8.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | adventure | 8.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R Tolkien | fantasy | 7.7/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | literature | 7.5/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | horror | 7.5/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | literature | 6.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | literature | 6.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | adventure | 5.7/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | romance | 4.1/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | literature | 4.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| It | Steven King | horror | 4.0/10 | Buy | Reviews |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| 1984 | George Orwell | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Clive Barkers Books of Blood | Clive Barker | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre | H.P. Lovecraft | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Song of Kali | Dan Simmons | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Shining | Stephen King | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| In the Flesh | Clive Barker | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Pet Sematary | Stephen King | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Koko | Peter Straub | horror | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Ayesha: The Return of She | H. Rider Haggard | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| King Solomons Mines | H. Rider Haggard | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Southern Mail Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Lost World | Michael Crichton | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Odyssey | Homer | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie | adventure | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Malazan Book of the Fallen | Steven Erikson | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Tigana | Guy Gaveriel Kay | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The First Law | Joe Abercrombie | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Farseer | Robin Hobb | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Darkness That Comes Before | R. Scott Bakker | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Mythago Wood | Robert Holdstock | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Redeeming Love | Francine Rivers | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Notebook | Nicholas Sparks | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Grand Sophy | Georgette Heyer | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Frederica | Georgette Heyer | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Cotillion | Georgette Heyer | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Enders Game | Orson Scott Card | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A Heinlein | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C Clarke | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| The Time Machine | H G Wells | sci-fi | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Wizard of Oz | Frank L. Baum | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | literature | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | romance | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | no ratings | Buy | Reviews |
Fiction books are stories made up by the author, therefore are not real. This is the opposite of non-fiction books which are real events, facts or stories. A good way to remember this is by telling yourself that the word fiction is a synonym for "fake", so fiction means fake and non-fiction means not fake.
Fiction books can be broken up into many categories. The most notable are adventure, fantasy, horror, literature, romance, and science fiction. These categories are relatively even in popularity. Using the Google Trends tool, romance books is the most popular category, while literature books is the least popular by a slight margin.
As a whole fiction books have seen an increase in popularity over the past two years, starting in 2007. Prior to that fiction books were on a downward trend. Nobody is really sure what changed in 2007, but the recent trends are good news for author and book lovers.
The United States searches "fiction books" the most on Google, followed by India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, then the United Kingdom. The top cities are Mumbai (India), Denver (US), St Louis (US), Chicago (US), Washington DC (US), and Philadelphia (US) in that order.