If you could suddenly find out that one work of fiction was actually true, what book would you select?

Hmm.. the first book that popped into my head was Something Wicked This Way Comes, but that would be really weird and freaky if it happened. I’m sure there are better selections.

OH MY GOODNESS! While Something Wicked This Way Comes would be cool, I’m changing my answer to The Odyssey. Now that would be awesome!

Harry Potter. Hehe
I’ve always thought it would be awesome to be a wizard, visit Honeydukes, play quidditch, own an owl, and have an invincible cloak.

Most of my fiction novels are fantasy. Urban fantasy even. I’d really rather them not be true because of both having been left out of the magical realm for so long and because the heroes/heroines always have such a hard time adapting to it, I’m sure I would too. Plus, just because I find out it’s real, it doesn’t mean I do it in good circumstances. Again, most of the characters don’t. And I’d hate to know that magic existed at some point previously and maybe was gone. So I’m good with none of them coming true.

Shogun by James Clavell.

As long as I don’t have to participate in the story, I think it would be great if one of the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Childs books that involve a sub-civilization under the subways of Manhatten would be pretty wild if it were true.

I would say Twilight, because although the writing was for an adolescent crowd the story was still good, and I wouldn’t mind having Jacob Black exist.
Besides my prepubescent pick, I would have to say, Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane. I adored the characters and wanted to be their friends.

fiction novels, Empress Pixie?

The 9/11 Comission
...J/k probably Lord of the Rings.

@Ria777 What can I say, I like to make sure everyone knows where I’m coming from.

Actually to differentiate, if necessary, from novelized non-fiction. Not “based on a true story” stuff, but non-fiction written as though it were a novel. I’m never sure how that gets handled literally. The last time I really came across it, I was still reading YA and they put it in with all the fiction.

Easy Lord of the Rings

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

props to Allie for The Odyssey though

My vote goes to a short story I just wrote called “Dave finds $20 million.”

the timemachine,
the part before we discover there are people living under the earth –
oh, that’s true already…

Oh! Oh! I’m voting for the unauthorized sequel to Dave’s short story “How everyone on Fluther became multi-millionaires overnight: a story of love, luck, and lots of questions.”

What about the (infamous and amazing) Futher story?

That’s a great story, Empress!
Title’s a bit long, but it has a wonderful plot.
I vote for that one too.

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The best series I ever read!!!! Ever

@tyrantxseries: Actually that reminds me of another good candidate, the Book of Swords series by Saberhagen would be really cool if it were true.

@Grisson ooooh ya that’s a good one too.

Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked :)

TWILIGHT! I would be thrilled to feel that kind of forbidden love!

@millastrellas Most definitely Harry Potter! I’m so sad I didn’t get my letter in the mail on my 11th birthday. I’m still getting over that one :( sniff

The Discworld series. If Ankh-Morpork actually existed, I’d find a way to live there.

1984

@LanceVance What?! Are you out of your freaking mind?

Lord of the Rings. If not Harry Potter. Cause I’d totally marry a Weasley.

I’d molest Aragorn if I could find him.

@asmonet I agree anyone like Aragorn NEEDS to be molested.

Always Coming Home, Ursula Leguin

Oh geez, I’d marry a Weasley, too. Ron please. He’s cute redhead.

Contact.

@lancevance 1984 is already true in London, China, and parts of the US. I’d vote 1984 as the novel that came true I’d most like to undo.

I’d take Ginny for a wife, in about 10 years.

Can’t I just sleep my way through the whole family then marry Ron? I can’t choose.

No wait. I want the twin that’s still left. Yeah, him.

surprised no one has said bible

Catch 22 by Joe Heller (oh wait…was that fiction?)

ummm…

Catcher in the Rye(that was fiction…right?)

I’d say: “The Great Gatsby” or “The Betsy”.

@Sueanne_Tremendous I know! I was so surprised
that seVen decided to go with Lord of The Rings. .

East of Eden or To Kill a Mockingbird…just so I could be friends with some of my favorite characters.

Like Seven’s gonna’ say the bible is fiction, duh! ;-)

If I was Jack Builder, then Ken Follet’s The Pillars Of The Earth.

If I was myself, John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy Of Dunces.

Doh! Always missing the obvious.

@EmpressPixie, you say “not ‘based on a true story stuff’ but non-fiction written as though it were a novel”. sounds like you do mean “based on a true story”. a small sub-genre of novels, that like Go Ask Alice presents the work as actual diaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice#Authorship

anyway, you don’t have to say “fiction novel” any more than do “black ravens”. aside from albinos who turn up now and again, you can assume the black part.

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” as well

Narnia. So I could look in everyone’s wardrobe.

@tyrantxseries – lets go to Milliways.

And I’d select City by Clifford Simak.

@simonPARASITE , if not Harry Potter, I’d def. say Narnia as my second choice!

@tantigirl: If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways?

Any/all of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon stories.

Abarat, by Clive Barker. That would be a cool world to live in – especially if it looked just like his illustrations!