The term classic fiction can be useful in a broad sense to any creative that has either been given special credit of academic conversation. This term is separate from classic literature, which may include non-fiction genres such as histories, biographies or religious texts. Classic fiction can be subdivided by genre, language, time frame, region and other methods. Some of the classic fiction books are:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - "A great crime novel is an unbalanced thing, entertainment and literature poised in some undetermined solution," said Laura Miller at Salon. Gillian Flynn's "ingenious, pitch-black" third novel mixes the ingredients to perfection. Nick and Amy lead enamored lives in New York City until a turn of the economy demotes them to a McMansion in the Missouri town where Nick grew up. Then Amy disappears, leaving a trace of blood, and all signs point to Nick. From then on, readers ache to solve "two mysteries — what happened to Amy, and what happened to Nick-and-Amy?" Neither puzzle is easily solved, said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. "Both Nick and Amy are extremely adept liars, and they lied to each other a lot."
Building Stories by Chris Ware - This extraordinary work of fiction book is less a book than a "keepsake box full of things you don't want to forget," said Melissa Maerz in Entertainment Weekly. Each board-game-size box contains 14 odd-shaped bits of "beautifully illustrated" literature, from a flip book to a poster to a fake children's reader.
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - In Hilary Mantel's hands, Thomas Cromwell has become "one of literature's most forceful characters," said Radhika Jones in Time. Henry VIII's chief adviser was both "loyal and devious, generous and cruel" — behavior Mantel brought to the fore in 2009's Wolf Hall, the first installment of her Cromwell trilogy. In the second, she "deepens her portrait of the master puppeteer." Mantel obviously understands that "what gives best fiction books to its vitality is not the accurate detail but the animate one," said James Wood in The New Yorker.
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya - In Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, Julie Iromuanya construct a richly characterize, searingly honest and often wildly funny representation of immigrant-of-color life in 21st-century America. At the center of the novel stand the titular couple, Nigerian immigrants Job and Ifi Ogbonnaya. Iromuanya’s brilliantly rendered narrative cuts deep into the conflicting ambitions, familial expectations and cumbersome cultural baggage of Nigerians in America.
Girl at War by Sara Nović - One of most discussed debut comes from Sara Nović, a former fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine who has documented the subject of war and its effect on children. With those contributions considered, it makes sense that Girl at War serves as a long-form meditation on the genre. The novel follows Ana Jurić, a 10-year-old girl existing in the middle of the Yugoslav Wars.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - "A great crime novel is an unbalanced thing, entertainment and literature poised in some undetermined solution," said Laura Miller at Salon. Gillian Flynn's "ingenious, pitch-black" third novel mixes the ingredients to perfection. Nick and Amy lead enamored lives in New York City until a turn of the economy demotes them to a McMansion in the Missouri town where Nick grew up. Then Amy disappears, leaving a trace of blood, and all signs point to Nick. From then on, readers ache to solve "two mysteries — what happened to Amy, and what happened to Nick-and-Amy?" Neither puzzle is easily solved, said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. "Both Nick and Amy are extremely adept liars, and they lied to each other a lot."
Building Stories by Chris Ware - This extraordinary work of fiction book is less a book than a "keepsake box full of things you don't want to forget," said Melissa Maerz in Entertainment Weekly. Each board-game-size box contains 14 odd-shaped bits of "beautifully illustrated" literature, from a flip book to a poster to a fake children's reader.
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - In Hilary Mantel's hands, Thomas Cromwell has become "one of literature's most forceful characters," said Radhika Jones in Time. Henry VIII's chief adviser was both "loyal and devious, generous and cruel" — behavior Mantel brought to the fore in 2009's Wolf Hall, the first installment of her Cromwell trilogy. In the second, she "deepens her portrait of the master puppeteer." Mantel obviously understands that "what gives best fiction books to its vitality is not the accurate detail but the animate one," said James Wood in The New Yorker.
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya - In Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, Julie Iromuanya construct a richly characterize, searingly honest and often wildly funny representation of immigrant-of-color life in 21st-century America. At the center of the novel stand the titular couple, Nigerian immigrants Job and Ifi Ogbonnaya. Iromuanya’s brilliantly rendered narrative cuts deep into the conflicting ambitions, familial expectations and cumbersome cultural baggage of Nigerians in America.
Girl at War by Sara Nović - One of most discussed debut comes from Sara Nović, a former fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine who has documented the subject of war and its effect on children. With those contributions considered, it makes sense that Girl at War serves as a long-form meditation on the genre. The novel follows Ana Jurić, a 10-year-old girl existing in the middle of the Yugoslav Wars.
