I love to read novels, mostly fiction and fantasy
I also love a long work of fiction. I love Hemingway have you read anything by him? 
No I have not. A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction published as a book,
You have to read something by Ernest Miller Hemingway. He was a god among men. Try "The Sun also Rises" It's AMAZING!
Yes a great novel I know Don Quixote was published in 1605 and thought to be the first novel
My wife is big on historical romances like Wuthering Height and Moby-Dick. You should also check those out. 
I think its amazing that  science fiction/fantasy is a  $700 million,market, that is a lot of books!
I love a Historically, science-fiction story. I like a little fact with fiction. It makes things fun.
Romance fiction had an estimated $1.375 billion share in the US book market in 2007 that is incredibly popular
a type of novel defined by Walter Scott as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvelous and uncommon incidents." 
A thriving genre of works conventionally referred to as "romance novels" existed in ancient Greece. Other precursors can be found in the literary fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Samuel Richardson's sentimental novel "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" (1740) and the novels of Jane Austen. Austen inspired Georgette Heyer, the British author of historical romance set
an autobiography, it’s a novel. If the book reads like an autobiography, I take that as a very high compliment, because I structured the created narrative to read like fiction but feel like fact. I wanted the novel to have the page-turning drive of a work of fiction but to be informed by such a powerful stream of real experience that it had the authentic feel of fact."
"As with the novel "Shantaram", the experiences in "The Mountain Shadow" are derived from my