fiction section

Where novels live

The fiction section is the part of a library or bookstore where novels and short story collections are shelved, as distinct from nonfiction, reference, or specialty areas.

I found it in the fiction section, filed under M for Morrison.

The term assumes the standard organizational scheme of separating imaginative literature from factual works.

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hardcovers · dust jacket · book spine · browsing · stories · imagination · genres · spine · bestsellers · page turner · beach read · reading · chapters · authors · book club · literary · fantasy · mystery

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Opposites
truth vs. imagination in literary content

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Shelves for factual works

nonfiction · non-fiction · science section · journalism · travel section

narrative vs. reference purpose

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Directing attention elsewhere

reference books · archives · atlases · technical manuals · stacks

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