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
which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick", are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel
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