What's the difference between a novel and a book?

Books come in many shapes and forms. Novels are one thing - fiction. They are made up stories. They can be based on true stories but are embellished, but still fall under the category of fiction. Science Fiction and Fantasy, Romance, Mysteries are all forms of fiction/novels (but some can be real non-fiction stories). Other books that are not fiction are biographies, self-help books, cookbooks, text books, coffee table books (ie photography), reference books (dictionaries, atlas), poetry, inspirational stories/collections.... and on and on.

A novel is a work of fiction. A book is the structure that contains a novel or some other sequence of pages. A book can have blank pages and not be read at all. A book can have nothing but pictures. You can have a science book, a history book, a book of paper dolls, etc. All kinds of pages can be tied up together to be a book

i'm not sure. i wish i could tell you. maybe there isn't a difference btw them.

in novel there is a hard language