novelist publication novel http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000109 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8261 A novel is a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. A novel is typically considered to be 40,000 words or longer (by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America). However, Smiley lists novels as between 100,000 and 175,000 words in length. National Novel Writing Month requires its novels to be at least 50,000 words. novels