All 6 Uses

novel
in
Orange Is the New Black
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Contraband food was irresistible—one did not readily pass up the simple novelty of eating something other than institutional food, cooked with a measure of love.†
p. 102.7

novelty = the quality of being new and original
This was an irresistible novelty, and soon we were laughing at each other, although Boo had refrained from being really mean at anyone's expense.†
p. 148.7 *
After all these months at Danbury, this was a shocking novelty.†
p. 198.3
They popped up at breakfast, a day-making novelty.†
p. 268.3
For the first time I had a bottom bunk, a strange novelty.†
p. 270.9

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

As A child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are each alone in the world.†
p. 292.1 *

Definitions:

(1) (novel as in: a novel situation)
new and original -- typically something considered good
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to a work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.