I love to read novels, mostly fiction and fantasy
I also love a long work of fiction. I love Hemingway have you read anything by him? 
No I have not. A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction published as a book,
You have to read something by Ernest Miller Hemingway. He was a god among men. Try "The Sun also Rises" It's AMAZING!
Yes a great novel I know Don Quixote was published in 1605 and thought to be the first novel
My wife is big on historical romances like Wuthering Height and Moby-Dick. You should also check those out. 
I think its amazing that  science fiction/fantasy is a  $700 million,market, that is a lot of books!
I love a Historically, science-fiction story. I like a little fact with fiction. It makes things fun.
Romance fiction had an estimated $1.375 billion share in the US book market in 2007 that is incredibly popular
I think it was Walter Scott that started the Romance trend as we know it now.