Narrative Fiction Definition – What’s the best definition for the narrative genre? The narrative fiction genre involves accounts of a sequence of connected events told through step-by-step, or scene-by-scene, narration. Books in the narrative genre can be somewhat folklore-ish in nature, as they are often stories passed down from generation to generation as moral lessons through past events.
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Narrative Fiction Definition – Examples
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1. Barn Dance! by Bill Martin Jr.
2. Diego and the Baby Sea Turtles by Lisa Rao
3. Baby Sea Turtle by Aubrey Lang
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Contact by Carl Sagan
8. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
9. Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming
10. Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons by Agnes Rosenstiehl
11. On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott
12. 10 Minutes till Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann
13. Time Flies by Claire Cook
14. Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cronin
15. I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold
16. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
17. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
18. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
19. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
20. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
21. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
22. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
23. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
24. Atonement by Ian McEwan
25. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Narrative Fiction Definition – Related Book Genres
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