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These Are Not Novels

I've seen all of these books miscategorized as novels here on ListChallenges. I'm not pedantic enough to distinguish between novel and novella. But I'm sure pedantic enough to distinguish between memoir and autofic, poetry and prose, true crime and mystery, drama and novel, short story collection and standalone. Nor do I think that any author who claimed their work was a true story, only to be discredited as a fraud and fabricator, should be allowed to re-classify their book as a novel (see the collected works of Beatrice Sparks). It's true, some confusion is inevitable, and some books, like "In Cold Blood," blur the line between fiction and non-fiction. But every time someone mislabels "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" as "fiction," the Neo-Nazis win.
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Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
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The Amityville Horror (Jay Anson)
The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson
3
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
4
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
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Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
Tr. Seamus Heaney
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Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
7
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer)
A Child Called "It"
Dave Pelzer
8
Communion (Whitley Strieber)
Communion
Whitley Strieber
9
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
10
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
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Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
13
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
James Joyce
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
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Go Ask Alice (Beatrice Sparks)
Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks
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A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
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The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solhenitsyn
19
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Helter Skelter (Vincent Bugliosi)
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi
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The Illiad (Homer)
The Illiad
Homer
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In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
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Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jay's Journal (Beatrice Sparks)
Jay's Journal
Beatrice Sparks
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Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby Jr)
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr
27
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Little Girl Lost (Drew Barrymore)
Little Girl Lost
Drew Barrymore
29
Longfellow's Complete Poems (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Longfellow's Complete Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
30
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
William Shakespeare
31
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
32
A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
33
The Mothman Prophecies (John A. Keel)
The Mothman Prophecies
John A. Keel
34
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night
Elie Wiesel
35
Night Shift (Stephen King)
Night Shift
Stephen King
36
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
37
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
Homer
38
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
39
Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
40
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
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