![]() Reviewers and scholars may use the contents to find their way back to passages they want to quote or cite. Readers of a guide to wildflowers or a history of Angola can consult the TOC both for a concise overview of the entire book and to locate specific information. Tables of contents for printed nonfiction books are traditional for obvious reasons. Why then do some best-selling, award-winning novels have a table of contents, sometimes several pages long? As you’ll see, sometimes it makes sense. ![]() ![]() There’s also fear that a contents page wastes valuable marketing space in online “see inside” previews, preventing readers from getting to the good stuff that will tempt them to buy. Lurking online, I perceive a widespread notion that tables of contents are old-fashioned and pointless for fiction. From our own reading, most of us know that some paperback and hardcover novels have a table of contents page in the front and some don’t.
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