as in fantasy
something that is the product of the imagination
most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact
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Recent Examples of fiction
The Times Book Review choose the top 10 fiction and nonfiction books.
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
From literary fiction to romance to thrillers, here are our favorite reads of the year.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
On the power of seeing and being seen. …
Paperback fiction
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—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
As the first Black winner of a RITA Award for romantic fiction, Ryan has written bestselling books that showcase beautiful, multifaceted, and nuanced characters.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
From literary fiction to romance to thrillers, here are our favorite reads of the year.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
On the power of seeing and being seen. …
Paperback fiction
1.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
As the first Black winner of a RITA Award for romantic fiction, Ryan has written bestselling books that showcase beautiful, multifaceted, and nuanced characters.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
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Backlist sales soared, especially with romance and fantasy authors like Colleen Hoover and Sarah J. Maas.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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Opening outside of the top 10 at the domestic weekend box office is the Robbie Williams fantasy music biopic Different Man, which opened in 1,291 theaters nationwide.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Not long ago, Mallaby recommended to us a few of the best books about such tales.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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The tale of that match has been told a few times in the quarter-century since.Jack Lang, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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This story was originally published January 6, 2025, 8:28 AM.Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
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This story was originally published January 5, 2025, 8:38 PM.Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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My novel follows a young woman reuniting with her childhood nanny in Mumbai for a few days, after years apart.Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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Its glossy goatskin leather fabrication adds to the sumptuousness of it all.Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
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Their sleek aesthetic is the result a lot of labor and time, and the fabrication costs of his pricey art have come under scrutiny.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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Some will read Schlink’s latest as an inspiring fable of intergenerational unity and redemption.Randy Boyagoda, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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Born in 1906 in the strongly Catholic, conservative Veneto region, to a haut-bourgeois family with aristocratic ancestors on both sides, Buzzati started writing dreamlike fables in the Thirties, when Bontempelli’s magic realism helped shape the scene.Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Using a steam engine to turn a large propeller, his invention lifted off from the Paris Hippodrome and flew through the air for roughly 20 miles, per Encyclopedia Britannica.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
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And with the invention of the internet, all those average people started generating a lot of data.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
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What Mishima set out to do in his final decade was to devise a cause to die for, a cause that had historical precedents but was still a figment of his richly morbid imagination.Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Yet, the Democratic Party kept telling me my concerns about rising gas and grocery costs were a figment of my imagination.Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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