I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ hardback , hardcover ( esp. AmE ), paperback
▪ debut
▪ first , second , etc.
▪
a prize for the best first ~ of the year
▪ latest , new , recent
▪ unfinished , unpublished
▪ good , great
▪
One day I'm going to write the great American ~.
▪ original
▪ acclaimed
▪
his critically acclaimed ~
▪ famous
▪ classic
▪ literary
▪ best-selling , popular
▪ dime ( AmE , old-fashioned ), pulp , trashy
▪ contemporary , modern
▪ 19th-century , Victorian
▪ adult , children's
▪ autobiographical
▪ adventure , comic , epic , epistolary , graphic , historical , romantic , satirical
▪
Samuel Richardson's ~s are all epistolary in form.
▪ fantasy , gothic , horror , sci-fi , science-fiction
▪ crime , detective , mystery , spy
… OF A NOVEL
▪ copy
▪
I took a copy of a Graham Greene ~ on the train with me.
VERB + NOVEL
▪ produce , write
▪ publish
▪ read
▪ complete , finish
▪
She completed her first ~ at the age of 53.
▪ inspire
▪
the events that inspired the ~
▪ translate
▪ adapt
▪
the process of adapting the ~ for television
▪ review
NOVEL + VERB
▪ be based on sth
▪
The ~ was based on a true life story.
▪ be set , take place
▪
The ~ was set in a small town in France.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about
▪
a ~ about growing up
II.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be , sound
▪
The plan sounded rather ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ completely , totally , etc.
▪ relatively
▪ essentially
Novel is used with these nouns: ↑ approach , ↑ concept , ↑ context , ↑ feature , ↑ finding , ↑ idea , ↑ insight , ↑ method , ↑ phenomenon , ↑ situation , ↑ type