This category contains all the pages referring to books.
Definition[]
A book is defined in this wiki thusly:
- a literary work of either fiction or non-fiction,
- of 'sufficient length' (see below),
- which is to be read as a whole.
This excludes compilations and short stories, and includes multi-volume stories (e.g. trilogies) so long as they comprise a single story. The Lord of the Rings is famously regarded by its author as one book, and likewise I consider something like The Black Magician Trilogy to be one book.
Some books may be related to other books and one particular relationship may be that of forming a series, in which they were intended to be read in a specific order. The difference between a series and a single multi-volume book is in theory that a series can be read one book at a time without suffering from an incomplete narrative (see 'to be read as a whole' in the criteria above).
'Sufficient length'[]
As a reference of interest, the Hugo Award (for scifi and fantasy works) defines a novel as anything exceeding 40,000 words (114 standard pages), a novella as anything exceeding 17,500 words (50 standard pages), and a novelette as anything exceeding 7,500 words (21 standard pages). Anything shorter than that is considered a short story.
I typically make the call on intuition, as I think it's probably more or less obvious what's a short story. I also refer to examples of each with borderline page counts, such as Animal Farm. The changeover point is probably around 50 pages, off the top of my head.
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- The Age of the Five Trilogy
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- Animal Farm
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- Aliens: Earth Hive
- Bad Science
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- Big Bang
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- The Black Magician Trilogy
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- The Blind Watchmaker
- Blindsight
- Blood Music
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- Brutal Harry
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- The Case of the Pope
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- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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- The Colour of Magic
- The Commonwealth Saga
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- Consider Phlebas
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- Contact
- Containment
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- The Currents of Space
- Daemon
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- The Dark Lord's Equal
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- A Deepness in the Sky
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- The Dragonriders of Pern
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- The God Delusion
- God is Not Great
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- The Green Mile
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- Guns, Germs, and Steel
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- Hannibal
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- Harry Potter and the Confirmed Critical
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- Harry Potter and the Natural 20
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- A History of God
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- How to Lie with Statistics
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