General Fiction Definition – What’s the best definition for the general fiction genre? Books that fall into the general fiction genre are often ones that straddle so many genres that it’s hard to place them in any specific one, or even two. The books in the general fiction genre can be a combination of any three or more genres of fiction that cause them to be outside the limits and rules of those specific genres. Example: a science fiction, fantasy, romance that has strong elements of comedy and action and adventure.
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General Fiction Definition – Examples
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1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
17. The Giver by Lois Lowry
18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
21. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
22. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
23. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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