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Mass awakening through fictional characters has been around for centuries wherein writers have used their stories to stir them in to action. Apart from the above mentioned aspects of a work of fiction, there are various ways in which a writer may want to use the weapon of imagination. New concepts always give newer thrills to readers across the world. It is an easy escape route for people from their lives and the worries it presents.

Fiction depends on the main plot and the characters that make the story gripping and interesting. The protagonist, the supporting characters, the antagonist make a fictional story come alive through the variations that make for an entertaining read. Writers may use direct narrative styles or write a third party account of the story. All forms are popular since the level of entertainment remains the same, although the effect may vary.

Fiction in Bookstores

Fictional books are so described that when covers are designed, they provide encouraging details. They fall under the appropriate category in a bookstore. For example, you will never find a horror story under the category of children’s fables. There’s just no mistaking it!

It has played a vital role in helping parents put their children to bed since time immemorial. It has also been instrumental in shaping the lives of many young minds either driving them towards success or in taking up writing itself. It gives the reader a powerful impetus to imagine, setting the brain wheels in to motion. Also the human mind manifests itself best in its fictional form and boosts the creative skills providing rejuvenation instantly and for a longer period.

The sphere of fiction can further enhance the reading and writing skills of readers along with the other complementary benefits that it provides. It is a great stress reliever as it transports the reader to a universe of possibilities.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. This is probably one of the most popular all times children book all over the world. The book is a fantastical story of the adventures of a boy in a Chocolate factory, owned by the eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka.

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton. This is the first book of the author’s series of the kid detectives “The Famous Five”. A delightful read of four children and their dog, in their pursuit to solve mysteries.

Noddy goes to Toyland by Enid Blyton. One of the most lovable characters of all times is the little wooden man who lives in toy town, Noddy. It all started with this book and will remain one of the most read of books among all children.

Heidi by Johanna Spyri. This novel is one of the most touching of all children’s stories. It is about a little girl in the care of her grumpy grandfather, living in the Alps of Switzerland.

The Wizard of Oz by L Baum. The story is a fantastical tale of a young girl named Dorothy in the world of Oz and her adventures there.

Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne. The story popularized the adorable honey loving bear with his group of friends.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K.Rowling. This book is what started the whole rage off. The story narrates how a boy wizard discovers his true identity and begins his lessons in wizardry.

Matilda by Roald Dahl. The book is a moral tale of a rich girl who is spoilt by her parents, but just refuses to be so. Her greatest love is to read.

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. The book consists of a collection of short stories, where the author uses animals to teach true morals.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The novel along with being a delightful children’s book is also considered to be one of the greatest American novels, about the boy’s adventures along the Mississippi River.

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. Clearly the best detective novel ever written, the plot revolves in Egypt and mainly on the Nile River and a torrid love triangle of two women in love with the same man.

And Then There was none by Agatha Christie. This is one of her best works. A chilling tale about how a group of people who had committed murder previously are tricked into coming to an island, where they are all murdered one by one, in accordance with a nursery rhyme.

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. The novel is a brilliant detective fiction which uses this genre to advocate the author’s socialistic criticism. It is also hinted to be autobiographical in nature.

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is one of the best in the author’s series of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Here Holmes is called for to look into the mysterious suicide of Mr. Baskerville.

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. The story features an African American detective in Southern California, in the post World War II period. The novel addresses complications of race and gender as well.

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The novel is a chilling psychological and detective chase about an unemployed Mr. Ripley who goes on a murdering spree to assume identities and lead a lavish lifestyle.

The Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. The tale chases a professional Hit-Man who is appointed by a French Terrorist group to assassinate the French President.

The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout. The novel is based on a profound psychological idea and works with the concept of a popular novel within a novel.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. The novel follows the pursuit of an injured detective to prove the King Richard III innocent of all the crimes he is associated with.

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. The novel is a first rate detective novel with spectacular bank robberies and mysterious tunnels and FBI attacks and foils. The central character is the Los Angeles detective Bosch.

The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga. The novel is the winner of the Man Booker Prize of 2008. The work is a brilliant satire on the inequality in India at the face of its growing economy. Instability in the country is brought out through the eyes of a Rickshaw puller’s son’s letters to the Chinese Premier.

The China Lover by Ian Buruma. The work speaks through the voice of three different narrators, telling the life story of the Chinese singer and actress Ri Koran. Each narration is contradictory to each other and is partly a historical novel.

The End of the World Book by Alistair McCartney. The book is an autobiographical novel by this Australian Gay author. Each of the twenty six chapters represents each alphabet and is a delightful effect of controversial topics.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. The work is a deeply observed study of Bengali Americans striving for a better life. These characters living in posh suburbs can somehow not let go of their traditions.

2666 by Robert Bolano. The Chilean author who died in 2003 has risen posthumously. The book is a detective novel with a twist of the surreal.

A Mercy by Toni Morrison. The tale is of a slave child who had been abandoned by her mother. It is part in puzzle and partly in a dream. The novel has strong Seventeenth century American characters.

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser. The work is a collection of thirteen short stories, which use the normal American families to spin surreal tales out of them.

The Size of the World by Joan Silber. This is also a collection of tales, in this case six, each in a different setting in the world to deal with agility and happiness in people’s lives.

Lucky Billy by John Vernon. As is the case with most of his novels, this too is a remarkable historical work about the story of the Lincoln Country War of 1878 and the lost legend of Billy the Kid.

The Expeditions by Karl Iagnemma. The story follows the two narratives of a teenage runaway and the other of his ill widower father. Set in 1844 Detroit and Michigan, it is a novel of comedy and errors.

“The Arabian Nights”. It is a collection of folk tales from Arabia and Persia. The initial frame of the stories consists of Scheherazade telling the tales to her murderous husband in order to stay alive. Most editions contain at least a thousand of these tales.

“Very Good Jeeves”(1930)P.G.Wodehouse. The book is a collection of short stories relating the comic antics of the rich yet foolish master Bertie Wooster and his “gentleman’s gentleman” Jeeves. Their hilarious escapades make this book one of the most memorable of all times.

“Grimm’s’ Fairy Tales”(1825)Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The two brothers in this collection present a series of German folklore and folk tales. These stories were told to them by peasants, aristocrats and the people from the middle-class, recounting old stories they remembered.

“Twice told tales”(1873)Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tone of the author throughout all the stories in this collection is singular and plaintive yet in accordance to the themes. It includes such stories as “The Wedding Knell” and “The Vision of the Fountain”.

“Dubliners”(1914)James Joyce. This collection of fifteen stories is a realistic depiction of the Irish middle-class in the twentieth century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism had reached new heights.

“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”(1840)Edgar Allen Poe. This is a collection of the author’s previously published short stories, dealing with satires and psychological tales. These include “Morella” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”

“The Prussian Officer and other Short Stories”(1914)D.H.Lawrence. This is one of the best collections of the writer’s short stories which include such celebrated works like “The Odor of Chrysanthemums”, “The White Stocking” and “The Shades of Spring”.

“Chicken Soup for the Soul”(1993)compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark V Hansen. The collection contains a hundred and one of the most inspirational stories and essays that you may come across. Most relate real life stories and motivations for hope  that touch every reader’s heart.

“To Cut a Long Story Short”(2000)Jeffery Archer. The master of story telling here offers a series of short stories which have the reader guessing till the end. It includes stories of all kinds, legal thrillers to intellectual thinking stories, but with the trademark twist in the tale.

“The Veteran”(2001)Frederick Forsyth. The book includes only five short stories, which are all different from each other. Like his other tales, they will have the reader gasping even after the stories end.