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The specific problem is: <b>overbroad understanding of the term "genre".</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Literature" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature">WikiProject Literature</a> may be able to help recruit an expert.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2020</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Writing genres</b> (more commonly known as <b>literary genres</b>) are <a href="/wiki/Genre" title="Genre">categories</a> that distinguish <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a> (including works of <a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">prose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_genre" title="Hybrid genre">hybrid forms</a>, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in <a href="/wiki/Theme_(narrative)" title="Theme (narrative)">theme/topic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Writing_style" title="Writing style">style</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">tropes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Storytelling_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Storytelling device">storytelling devices</a>; common <a href="/wiki/Setting_(narrative)" title="Setting (narrative)">settings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Character_(arts)" title="Character (arts)">character types</a>; and/or formulaic patterns of character interactions and events, and an overall predictable form. </p><p>A literary genre may fall under either one of two categories: (a) a work of <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">fiction</a>, involving non-factual descriptions and events invented by the <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a>; or (b) a work of nonfiction, in which descriptions and events are understood to be factual. In literature, a work of fiction can refer to a <a href="/wiki/Flash_fiction" title="Flash fiction">flash narrative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">novella</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a>, the latter being the longest form of literary prose. Every work of fiction falls into a <b>literary</b> <b>subgenre</b>, each with its own style, tone, and storytelling devices.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Moreover, these genres are formed by shared literary conventions that change over time as new genres emerge while others fade. Accordingly, they are often defined by the cultural expectations and needs of a particular historical and cultural moment or place.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Fowler" title="Alastair Fowler">Alastair Fowler</a>, the following elements can define genres: organizational features (<a href="/wiki/Chapter_(books)" title="Chapter (books)">chapters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Act_(drama)" title="Act (drama)">acts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scene_(drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scene (drama)">scenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stanza" title="Stanza">stanzas</a>); length; <a href="/wiki/Mood_(literature)" title="Mood (literature)">mood</a>; <a href="/wiki/Writing_style" title="Writing style">style</a>; the reader's role (e.g., in mystery works, readers are expected to interpret evidence); and the author's reason for writing (an <a href="/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem)" title="Epithalamion (poem)">epithalamion</a> is a poem composed for marriage).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Genres are formed shared literary conventions that change over time as new genres emerge while others fade. As such, genres are not wholly fixed categories of writing; rather, their content evolves according to social and cultural contexts and contemporary questions of morals and norms.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most enduring genres are those literary forms that were defined and performed <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature" title="Ancient Greek literature">by the Ancient Greeks</a>; definitions sharpened by the proscriptions of modern civilization's earliest <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetorical</a> scholars, such as <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aspasia" title="Aspasia">Aspasia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, and others. The prevailing genres of literary composition in Ancient Greece were all written and constructed to explore cultural, moral, or ethical questions; they were ultimately defined as the genres of <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">tragedy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">comedy</a>. Aristotle's proscriptive analysis of tragedy, for example, as expressed in his <i><a href="/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)" title="Rhetoric (Aristotle)">Rhetoric</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle)" title="Poetics (Aristotle)">Poetics</a>,</i> saw it as having 6 parts (music, <a href="/wiki/Diction" title="Diction">diction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plot_(narrative)" title="Plot (narrative)">plot</a>, character, thought, and <a href="/wiki/Spectacle" title="Spectacle">spectacle</a>) working together in particular ways. Thus, Aristotle established one of the earliest delineations of the elements that define genre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fiction_genres">Fiction genres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fiction genres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>By Age <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fratire" title="Fratire">Fratire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lad_lit" title="Lad lit">Lad lit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_adult_fiction" title="New adult fiction">New adult fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_adult_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Young adult fiction">Young adult</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_royal" title="Battle royal">Battle royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classic_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Classic literature">Classic</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Literary_fiction" title="Literary fiction">literary fiction</a>): works with <a href="/wiki/Literary_merit" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary merit">artistic/literary merit</a> that are typically <a href="/wiki/Character_driven" class="mw-redirect" title="Character driven">character-driven</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Plot_driven" class="mw-redirect" title="Plot driven">plot-driven</a>, following a character's inner story. They often include <a href="/wiki/Political_criticism" title="Political criticism">political criticism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_commentary" title="Social commentary">social commentary</a>, and reflections on humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These works are part of an accepted <a href="/wiki/Literary_canon" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary canon">literary canon</a> and widely taught in schools.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coming-of-age_story" title="Coming-of-age story">Coming-of-age</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bildungsroman" title="Bildungsroman">Bildungsroman</a>: works that focus on the psychological and moral growth of a character from youth into adulthood.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedic_novel" title="Encyclopedic novel">Encyclopedic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epic_(genre)" title="Epic (genre)">Epic</a>: a <a href="/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative">narrative</a> defined by heroic or legendary adventures presented in a long format. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic poetry</a>: <a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">narrative poetry</a> about extraordinary feats occurring in a time before history, involving religious underpinnings and themes.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabulation" title="Fabulation">Fabulation</a>: A class composed mostly of 20th-century novels that are in a style similar to magical realism, and do not fit into the traditional categories of realism.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a> (folktale) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animal_tale" title="Animal tale">Animal tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">Fable</a>: short story that <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphism" title="Anthropomorphism">anthropomorphizes</a> non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">Fairy tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">Ghost story</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">Legend</a>: story, sometimes of a national or <a href="/wiki/Folk_hero" title="Folk hero">folk hero</a>, that has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">Myth</a>: traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parable" title="Parable">Parable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_narrative" title="Personal narrative">Personal narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_legend" title="Urban legend">Urban legend</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical</a>: works that take place in the past—which can be real, imagined, or a combination.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many such works involve actual historical figures or historical events within historical settings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">Alternate history</a>: fiction in which one or more historical events occur differently than how they transpired in reality. Example: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle" title="The Man in the High Castle">The Man in the High Castle</a></i> (1962).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fantasy" title="Historical fantasy">Historical fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_mystery" title="Historical mystery">Historical mystery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">Historical romance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regency_romance" title="Regency romance">Regency romance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nautical_fiction" title="Nautical fiction">Nautical fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pirates_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirates in popular culture">Pirate novel</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meta_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Meta fiction">Metafiction</a> (aka romantic irony in the context of <a href="/wiki/Romantic_literature" title="Romantic literature">Romantic literature</a>): uses <a href="/wiki/Self-reference" title="Self-reference">self-reference</a> to draw attention to itself as a work of art while exposing the "truth" of a story. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metaparody" title="Metaparody">Metaparody</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_nonsense" title="Literary nonsense">Nonsense</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nonsense_verse" title="Nonsense verse">Nonsense verse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranoid_fiction" title="Paranoid fiction">Paranoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pastoral" title="Pastoral">Pastoral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_fiction" title="Philosophical fiction">Philosophical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_culture_fiction" title="Pop culture fiction">Pop culture</a>: fiction written with the intention of being filled with references from other works and media. Stories in this genre focused solely on using <a href="/wiki/Popular_culture" title="Popular culture">pop culture</a> references.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodern_literature" title="Postmodern literature">Postmodern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Realist_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Realist fiction">Realist</a>: works that are set in a time and place that are true to life (i.e. that could actually happen in the real world), abiding by real-world <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">laws of nature</a>. They depict real people, places, and stories to be as truthful as possible.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hysterical_realism" title="Hysterical realism">Hysterical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious fiction">Religious</a> or <a href="/wiki/Inspirational_fiction" title="Inspirational fiction">inspirational</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Fiction">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_fiction" title="Islamic fiction">Islamic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theological_fiction" title="Theological fiction">Theological</a>: fiction that explores the <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theological ideas</a> that shape attitudes towards religious expression.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visionary_fiction" title="Visionary fiction">Visionary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a>: usually fiction and less frequently in non-fiction, in which <a href="/wiki/Vice" title="Vice">vices</a>, <a href="/wiki/Follies" title="Follies">follies</a>, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satire#Horatian" title="Satire">Horatian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenalian_Satire" class="mw-redirect" title="Juvenalian Satire">Juvenalian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menippean_satire" title="Menippean satire">Menippean</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_novel" title="Social novel">Social</a> and <a href="/wiki/Political_fiction" title="Political fiction">political fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_science_fiction" title="Libertarian science fiction">Libertarian sci-fi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_science_fiction" title="Social science fiction">Social sci-fi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_thriller" title="Political thriller">Political thriller</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre-fiction" title="Theatre-fiction">Theatre-fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thriller_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Thriller fiction">Thriller</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Suspense_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Suspense (genre)">suspense</a>): typically dark and suspenseful <a href="/wiki/Plot_driven" class="mw-redirect" title="Plot driven">plot-driven</a> fiction involving a person or group facing imminent harm, and the attempts made to evade that harm. Thrillers regularly use <a href="/wiki/Plot_twist" title="Plot twist">plot twists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_herring" title="Red herring">red herrings</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cliffhanger" title="Cliffhanger">cliffhangers</a>, and seldom include comedic elements.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_fiction" title="Conspiracy fiction">Conspiracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_thriller" title="Erotic thriller">Erotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_thriller" title="Legal thriller">Legal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Financial_thriller" title="Financial thriller">Financial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_thriller" title="Political thriller">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_thriller" title="Psychological thriller">Psychological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_suspense" class="mw-redirect" title="Romantic suspense">Romantic suspense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-thriller" title="Techno-thriller">Techno-thriller</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fiction" title="Urban fiction">Urban</a>: fiction set in an urban environment.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_fiction" title="Western fiction">Western</a>: works that follow cowboys, settlers, and outlaws exploring the <a href="/wiki/American_frontier" title="American frontier">American frontier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Old West">Old West</a>, typically in the late-19th to early-20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Florida_Western" title="Florida Western">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_(genre)" title="Northern (genre)">Northern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Western" title="Space Western">Space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Romance_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Romance literature">Western romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_West" title="Weird West">Weird West</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Action_and_adventure">Action and adventure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Action and adventure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">Action fiction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">adventure fiction</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Hero%27s_journey" title="Hero's journey">hero's journey</a> is the most popular narrative structure of an adventure novel.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Adventure fantasy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heroic_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroic fantasy">Heroic fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_world" title="Lost world">Lost world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword-and-sandal" title="Sword-and-sandal">Sword-and-sandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword-and-sorcery" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword-and-sorcery">Sword-and-sorcery</a></li> <li>Sword-and-soul</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wuxia" title="Wuxia">Wuxia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nautical_fiction" title="Nautical fiction">Nautical</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pirates_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirates in popular culture">Pirate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robinsonade" title="Robinsonade">Robinsonade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spy_fiction" title="Spy fiction">Spy</a>: fiction involving espionage and establishment of modern <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_agencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligence agencies">intelligence agencies</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spy-fi_(subgenre)" title="Spy-fi (subgenre)">Spy-Fi</a>: spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subterranean_fiction" title="Subterranean fiction">Subterranean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survivalism_in_fiction" title="Survivalism in fiction">Survival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swashbuckler" title="Swashbuckler">Swashbuckler</a>: fiction based on a time of <a href="/wiki/Swordsmanship" title="Swordsmanship">swordsmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pirates_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture" title="Pirates in the arts and popular culture">pirates</a> and ships, and other related ideas, usually full of action. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Picaresque_novel" title="Picaresque novel">Picaresque</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comedy">Comedy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Comedy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">Comedy</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Comic_novel" title="Comic novel">comic novel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Light_poetry" title="Light poetry">light poetry</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Comedic_journalism" title="Comedic journalism">comedic journalism</a>): usually a fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain and sometimes cause intended laughter; but can be contained in all genres. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burlesque" title="Burlesque">Burlesque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_comedy" title="Fantasy comedy">Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comedy_horror" title="Comedy horror">Comedy horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parody" title="Parody">Parody</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metaparody" title="Metaparody">Metaparody</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_comedy" title="Science fiction comedy">Sci-fi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surreal_comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Surreal comedy">Surreal comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tall_tale" title="Tall tale">Tall tale</a>: humorous story with blatant exaggerations, such as swaggering heroes who do the impossible with nonchalance.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragicomedy" title="Tragicomedy">Tragicomedy</a>: a work containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime_and_mystery">Crime and mystery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Crime and mystery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime fiction</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Crime_comics" title="Crime comics">crime comics</a>) centers on a crime(s), how the criminal gets caught and serves time, and the repercussions of the crime </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caper_story" title="Caper story">Caper</a>: fiction told from the point of view of the criminals rather than the investigator. Well-known writers in this genre include <a href="/wiki/W._R._Burnett" title="W. R. Burnett">W. R. Burnett</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Boland_(author)" title="John Boland (author)">John Boland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Donnell" title="Peter O'Donnell">Peter O’Donnell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Crichton_bibliography" title="Michael Crichton bibliography">Michael Crichton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giallo" title="Giallo">Giallo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_thriller" title="Legal thriller">Legal thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a>: fiction that follows a crime (e.g., a murder, a disappearance) as it is committed, investigated, and solved, as well as providing clues and revealing information/secrets as the story unfolds.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cozy_mystery" title="Cozy mystery">Cozy mystery</a>: mystery fiction that contain no sex, violence, or profanity. Well-known writers in this genre include <a href="/wiki/A_Dorothy_L._Sayers_Mystery" title="A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Daly" title="Elizabeth Daly">Elizabeth Daly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_mysteries" title="City mysteries">City mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">Detective</a>: fiction that follows a detective or other investigator (professional, amateur, or retired) as they investigate or solve a mystery/crime. Detective novels generally begin with a mysterious incident (e.g., death). One of the most popular examples is the <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> stories; well-known detective novelists include <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie_bibliography" title="Agatha Christie bibliography">Agatha Christie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler_bibliography" title="Raymond Chandler bibliography">Raymond Chandler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gong%27an_fiction" title="Gong'an fiction">Gong'an</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girl_detective_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Girl detective (genre)">Girl detective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverted_detective_story" title="Inverted detective story">Inverted detective story</a> (aka howcatchem)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">Occult detective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardboiled" title="Hardboiled">Hardboiled</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_mystery" title="Historical mystery">Historical mystery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locked-room_mystery" title="Locked-room mystery">Locked-room mystery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_procedural" title="Police procedural">Police procedural</a>: mystery fiction that feature a protagonist who is a member of the police force. Well-known novelists in this genre include <a href="/wiki/Ed_McBain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ed McBain">Ed McBain</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._D._James" title="P. D. James">P. D. James</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Gill" title="Bartholomew Gill">Bartholomew Gill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whodunit" title="Whodunit">Whodunit</a>: mystery fiction that focuses on the puzzle regarding who committed the crime.</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noir_fiction" title="Noir fiction">Noir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_noir" title="Nordic noir">Nordic noir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tart_Noir" title="Tart Noir">Tart Noir</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speculative_fiction">Speculative fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Speculative fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fantasy">Fantasy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fantasy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">Fantasy</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_comics" title="Fantasy comics">comics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction magazine">magazines</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a> that use imaginary characters set in <a href="/wiki/Fictional_universe" title="Fictional universe">fictional universes</a> inspired by mythology and folklore, often including magical elements, magical creatures, or the <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a>. Examples: <a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"><i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i></a> (1885) and the <a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter" title="Harry Potter"><i>Harry Potter</i> books</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Action-adventure <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heroic_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroic fantasy">Heroic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_world" title="Lost world">Lost world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subterranean_fiction" title="Subterranean fiction">Subterranean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword-and-sandal" title="Sword-and-sandal">Sword-and-sandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword-and-sorcery" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword-and-sorcery">Sword-and-sorcery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wuxia" title="Wuxia">Wuxia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_fantasy" title="Contemporary fantasy">Contemporary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">Occult detective fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_romance" title="Paranormal romance">Paranormal romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fantasy" title="Urban fantasy">Urban</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cozy fantasy<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_fantasy" title="Dark fantasy">Dark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairytale_fantasy" title="Fairytale fantasy">Fairytale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantastique" title="Fantastique">Fantastique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_comedy" title="Fantasy comedy">Fantasy comedy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangsian_fantasy" title="Bangsian fantasy">Bangsian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_of_manners" title="Fantasy of manners">Fantasy of manners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaslamp_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaslamp fantasy">Gaslamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic fantasy">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grimdark" title="Grimdark">Grimdark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_fantasy" title="Hard fantasy">Hard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_fantasy" title="High fantasy">High</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fantasy" title="Historical fantasy">Historical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isekai" title="Isekai">Isekai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenile_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Juvenile fantasy">Juvenile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low_fantasy" title="Low fantasy">Low</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic realism">Magic realism</a>: normal in the world in which the story takes place.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythic_fiction" title="Mythic fiction">Mythic</a>: fiction that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some way draws from the tropes, themes, and symbolism of <a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">myth</a>, legend, folklore, and fairy tales. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mythopoeia" title="Mythopoeia">Mythopoeia</a>: fiction in which characters from religious mythology, traditional myths, folklore, and/or history are recast into a re-imagined realm created by the author.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythpunk" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythpunk">Mythpunk</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_fantasy" title="Romantic fantasy">Romantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fantasy" title="Science fantasy">Science</a>: science fiction based in elements of fantasy.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dying_Earth_genre" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying Earth genre">Dying Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_romance" title="Planetary romance">Planetary romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword_and_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword and planet">Sword and planet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Superhero fantasy">Superhero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">Supernatural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenmo_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenmo fantasy">Shenmo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_fiction" title="Weird fiction">Weird fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_weird" title="New weird">New weird</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_West" title="Weird West">Weird West</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Horror">Horror</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Horror"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Horror_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Horror novel">Horror</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Horror_comics" title="Horror comics">comics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction_magazine" title="Horror fiction magazine">magazines</a>) involves fiction in which plot and characters are tools that elicit a feeling of dread and terror, as well as events that often evoke fear in both the characters and the reader.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Horrors generally focus on themes of death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Body_horror" title="Body horror">Body</a> (aka biological): intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body (including <a href="/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_fiction" title="Organ transplantation in fiction">organ transplantation</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Example: <i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein" title="Frankenstein">Frankenstein</a></i> (1818).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comedy_horror" title="Comedy horror">Comedy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zombie_comedy" title="Zombie comedy">Zombie comedy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_horror" title="Erotic horror">Erotic</a> (sometimes <a href="/wiki/Monster_erotica" title="Monster erotica">monster erotica</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ero_guro" title="Ero guro">Ero guro</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">Ghost stories</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ghostlore" title="Ghostlore">ghostlore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic</a> (aka gothic romanticism; and <a href="/wiki/Dark_romanticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark romanticism">dark romanticism</a>): fiction mixing themes of horror, romance, and death <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="American Gothic Fiction">American</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Gothic" title="Southern Gothic">Southern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Ontario_Gothic" title="Southern Ontario Gothic">Southern Ontario</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_science_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic science fiction">Space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suburban_Gothic" title="Suburban Gothic">Suburban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasmanian_Gothic" title="Tasmanian Gothic">Tasmanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_Gothic" title="Urban Gothic">Urban</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_horror" title="Japanese horror">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_horror" title="Korean horror">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror" title="Lovecraftian horror">Lovecraftian</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic horror">Cosmic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monster_literature" title="Monster literature">Monster literature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jiangshi_fiction" title="Jiangshi fiction">Jiangshi fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werewolf_fiction" title="Werewolf fiction">Werewolf fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampire_literature" title="Vampire literature">Vampire literature</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_horror" title="Psychological horror">Psychological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Splatterpunk" title="Splatterpunk">Splatterpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-horror" title="Techno-horror">Techno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_fiction" title="Weird fiction">Weird fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_menace" title="Weird menace">Weird menace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_West" title="Weird West">Weird West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie_apocalypse" title="Zombie apocalypse">Zombie apocalypse</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Science_fiction">Science fiction</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Science fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_comics" title="Science fiction comics">comics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_magazine" title="Science fiction magazine">magazines</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_novels" title="List of science fiction novels">novels</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_short_stories" title="List of science fiction short stories">short stories</a>) is <a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a> with imagined elements that are inspired by <a href="/wiki/Natural_science" title="Natural science">natural sciences</a> (physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc.) or <a href="/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science">social sciences</a> (psychology, anthropology, sociology, etc.). Common elements of this genre include <a href="/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction" title="Time travel in fiction">time travel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Space_exploration" title="Space exploration">space exploration</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Futuristic" class="mw-redirect" title="Futuristic">futuristic</a> societies. (Sci-fi was originally regarded as <a href="/wiki/Scientific_romance" title="Scientific romance">scientific romance</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction" title="Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction">Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_science_fiction" title="Christian science fiction">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_comedy" title="Science fiction comedy">Comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction" title="Utopian and dystopian fiction">Utopian and dystopian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature" title="List of dystopian literature">Dystopian</a>: fiction set in a society that the author views as being worse than the one in which they live in at the time of writing. Example: <i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i> (1932) and <i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1953). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a>: juxtaposes advanced technology with less-advanced, broken down society.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives" title="Cyberpunk derivatives">Derivatives of cyberpunk</a> include: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biopunk" title="Biopunk">Biopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieselpunk" title="Dieselpunk">Dieselpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cyberpunk" title="Japanese cyberpunk">Japanese cyberpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanopunk" title="Nanopunk">Nanopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solarpunk" title="Solarpunk">Solarpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steampunk" title="Steampunk">Steampunk</a>: blends technology with <a href="/wiki/Steam_powered" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam powered">steam-powered</a> machinery.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_utopian_literature" title="List of utopian literature">Utopian</a>: (often satirical) fiction set in a <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopia</a>; a <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a> or <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> that possesses highly desirable or perfect qualities.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_science_fiction" title="Feminist science fiction">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_science_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic science fiction">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isekai" title="Isekai">Isekai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_science_fiction" title="Hard science fiction">Hard</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_fiction" title="Climate fiction">Climate fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction#Science_fiction" title="Parallel universes in fiction">Parallel world</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_science_fiction" title="Libertarian science fiction">Libertarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mecha" title="Mecha">Mecha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mecha_anime_and_manga" title="Mecha anime and manga">Mecha anime and manga</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_science_fiction" title="Military science fiction">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soft_science_fiction" title="Soft science fiction">Soft</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthropological_science_fiction" title="Anthropological science fiction">Anthropological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_science_fiction" title="Social science fiction">Social</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_opera" title="Space opera">Space opera</a>: fiction that takes place in outer space and centers around conflict, romance, and adventure.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Western" title="Space Western">Space Western</a>: fiction that blends elements of sci-fi with those of the western genre.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spy-fi_(subgenre)" title="Spy-fi (subgenre)">Spy-Fi</a>: spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subterranean_fiction" title="Subterranean fiction">Subterranean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tech_noir" title="Tech noir">Tech noir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-thriller" title="Techno-thriller">Techno-thriller</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Science_Fantasy">Science Fantasy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Science Fantasy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Science_Fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fantasy">Science Fantasy</a> of Sci-Fan, is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.[1] In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and artistic elements that disregard the scientific laws of the real world. The world of science fantasy, however, is laid out to be scientifically logical and often supplied with hard science-like explanations of any supernatural elements.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fantasy" title="Science fantasy">Science fantasy</a>: sci-fi inspired by mythology and folklore, often including elements of magic.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dying_Earth_genre" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying Earth genre">Dying Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_romance" title="Planetary romance">Planetary romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword_and_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword and planet">Sword and planet</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Superhero">Superhero</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Superhero"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a> is a subgenre of speculative fiction examining the adventures, personalities and ethics of costumed crime fighters known as superheroes, who often possess superhuman powers and battle similarly powered criminals known as supervillains. The genre primarily falls between hard fantasy and soft science fiction in the spectrum of scientific realism. It is most commonly associated with American comic books, though it has expanded into other media through adaptations and original works. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heroic_Fantasy" title="Heroic Fantasy">Heroic Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cape_Punk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cape Punk (page does not exist)">Cape Punk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroic_Noir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heroic Noir (page does not exist)">Heroic Noir</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romance">Romance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Romance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Romantic_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Romantic Fiction">Romantic fiction</a> primarily focuses on a love story between two people, usually with an optimistic, emotionally satisfying ending.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also <a href="/wiki/Romance_(literary_fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (literary fiction)">Romance (literary fiction)</a> – works that frequently, but not exclusively, takes the form of the <a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">historical romance</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amish_romance" title="Amish romance">Amish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chivalric_romance" title="Chivalric romance">Chivalric</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_fantasy" title="Romantic fantasy">Fantasy</a>: One example is <a href="/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(novel)" title="The Princess Bride (novel)"><i>The Princess Bride</i></a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_romance" title="Contemporary romance">Contemporary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gay_romance" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay romance">Gay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_romance#Lesbian_romance" title="Contemporary romance">Lesbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_romance#Medical_romance" title="Contemporary romance">Medical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_romance_novels" title="Erotic romance novels">Erotic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_thriller" title="Erotic thriller">Thriller</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_fantasy" title="Romantic fantasy">Romantic fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">Historical</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regency_romance" title="Regency romance">Regency</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel#Inspirational_romance" title="Romance novel">Inspirational</a>: combines explicitly <a href="/wiki/Christian_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian fiction">Christian themes</a> with the development of a romantic relationship.<sup id="cite_ref-rwasub_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rwasub-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_romance" title="Paranormal romance">Paranormal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Time-travel_romance" title="Time-travel romance">Time-travel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_suspense" class="mw-redirect" title="Romantic suspense">Romantic suspense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Romance_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Romance literature">Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_adult_romance_literature" title="Young adult romance literature">Young Adult</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nonfiction_genres">Nonfiction genres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Nonfiction genres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Academic_writing" title="Academic writing">Academic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Literature_review" title="Literature review">Literature review</a>: a summary and careful comparison of previous academic work published on a specific topic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Research_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Research article">Research article</a> or research paper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_literature" title="Scientific literature">Scientific</a>: scholarly publication reporting original <a href="/wiki/Empirical_evidence" title="Empirical evidence">empirical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theoretical" class="mw-redirect" title="Theoretical">theoretical</a> work in the <a href="/wiki/Natural_science" title="Natural science">natural</a> or <a href="/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science">social sciences</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technical_report" title="Technical report">Technical report</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Textbook" title="Textbook">Textbook</a>: authoritative and detailed factual description of a thing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a> (or dissertation): a document submitted in support of candidature for an <a href="/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">academic degree</a> or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a>: an organized listing of books or writings <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annotated_bibliography" title="Annotated bibliography">Annotated bibliography</a>: a bibliography that provides a summary for each of its entries.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biography" title="Biography">Biography</a>: a written narrative of a person's life; an <a href="/wiki/Autobiography" title="Autobiography">autobiography</a> is a self-written biography. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Memoir" title="Memoir">Memoir</a>: a biographical account of a particular event or period in a person's life (rather than their whole life) drawn from personal knowledge or special sources (such as the spouse of the subject).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misery_lit" title="Misery lit">Misery literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative" title="Slave narrative">Slave narrative</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative#Contemporary_slave_narratives" title="Slave narrative">Contemporary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative#Neo-slave_narratives" title="Slave narrative">Neo</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consilia" title="Consilia">Consilia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cookbook" title="Cookbook">Cookbook</a>: a kitchen reference containing <a href="/wiki/Recipe" title="Recipe">recipes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creative_nonfiction" title="Creative nonfiction">Creative nonfiction</a>: factual narrative presented in the form of a story so as to entertain the reader. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Personal_narrative" title="Personal narrative">Personal narrative</a>: a prose relating personal <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> and opinion to a factual narrative.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">Essay</a>: a short literary composition, often reflecting the author's outlook or point of view. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Position_paper" title="Position paper">Position paper</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Journalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Journalistic">Journalistic writing</a>: reporting on news and current events <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arts_journalism" title="Arts journalism">Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Business_journalism" title="Business journalism">Business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Data-driven_journalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Data-driven journalism">Data-driven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_journalism" title="Entertainment journalism">Entertainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_journalism" title="Environmental journalism">Environmental</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fashion_journalism" title="Fashion journalism">Fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_journalism" title="Global journalism">Global</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medical_journalism" title="Medical journalism">Medical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_journalism" title="Political journalism">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_journalism" title="Science journalism">Science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_journalism" title="Sports journalism">Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technology_journalism" title="Technology journalism">Technical</a></li> <li>Trade</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_game_journalism" title="Video game journalism">Video games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_news" title="World news">World</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-fiction_novel" title="Non-fiction novel">Non-fiction novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reference_work" title="Reference work">Reference work</a>: publication that one can refer to for confirmed facts, such as a <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thesaurus" title="Thesaurus">thesaurus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Almanac" title="Almanac">almanac</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Atlas" title="Atlas">atlas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-help_book" title="Self-help book">Self-help</a>: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obituary" title="Obituary">Obituary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">Travel</a>: literature containing elements of the outdoors, nature, adventure, and traveling. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guide_book" title="Guide book">Guide book</a>: book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travel_blog" class="mw-redirect" title="Travel blog">Travel blog</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/True_crime" title="True crime">True crime</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_fiction_vs._genre_fiction">Literary fiction vs. genre fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Literary fiction vs. genre fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Literary_fiction" title="Literary fiction">Literary fiction</a> is a term that distinguishes certain fictional works that possess commonly held qualities to readers outside genre fiction.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable 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The German word "Bildung" can mean both "education" and "self-development."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime fiction</a> <ul><li>Campus murder mystery</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biographical_novel" title="Biographical novel">Biographical novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">Historical romance</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_mystery" title="Historical mystery">Historical mystery</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative#Neo-slave_narratives" title="Slave narrative">Neo-slave narrative</a></li> <li><a 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class="mw-redirect" title="Sports fiction">Sports fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">Romance novel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Medical_romance" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical romance">Medical romance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_fiction" title="Political fiction">Political fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_fiction" title="Quantum fiction">Quantum fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_fiction" title="Prehistoric fiction">Prehistoric fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">Travel literature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immram" title="Immram">Immram</a> – Old Irish tales concerning a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milesian_tale" title="Milesian tale">Milesian tale</a> – a travelogue told from memory by a narrator who every now and then relates how he encountered other characters who told him stories that he incorporated into the main tale.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious fiction">Religious fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian fiction">Christian fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_science_fiction" title="Christian science fiction">Christian science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Christian_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Contemporary Christian fiction">Contemporary Christian fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_fiction" title="Islamic fiction">Islamic fiction</a></li> <li>Jewish fiction<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saga" title="Saga">Saga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Family_saga" title="Family saga">Family saga</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a> <ul><li><b>By setting</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/High_fantasy" title="High fantasy">Epic / high fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_fantasy" title="Hard fantasy">Hard fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fantasy" title="Historical fantasy">Historical fantasy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Prehistoric fantasy">Prehistoric fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval fantasy">Medieval fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wuxia" title="Wuxia">Wuxia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low_fantasy" title="Low fantasy">Low fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fantasy" title="Urban fantasy">Urban fantasy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_romance" title="Paranormal romance">Paranormal romance</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b>By theme</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comic_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Comic fantasy">Comic fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_fantasy" title="Contemporary fantasy">Contemporary fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_fantasy" title="Dark fantasy">Dark fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_of_manners" title="Fantasy of manners">Fantasy of manners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heroic_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroic fantasy">Heroic fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic realism">Magic realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythic_fiction" title="Mythic fiction">Mythic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_fiction#Paranormal_fantasy" title="Paranormal fiction">Paranormal fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenmo" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenmo">Shenmo fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superhero_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Superhero fantasy">Superhero fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword_and_sorcery" title="Sword and sorcery">Sword and sorcery</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Body_horror" title="Body horror">Body horror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Splatterpunk" title="Splatterpunk">Splatterpunk</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_horror" title="Erotic horror">Erotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Gothic" title="Southern Gothic">Southern Gothic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_horror" title="Psychological horror">Psychological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Supernatural horror">Supernatural / paranormal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic horror">Cosmic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror" title="Lovecraftian horror">Lovecraftian</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">Ghost story</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monster_literature" title="Monster literature">Monster literature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jiangshi_fiction" title="Jiangshi fiction">Jiangshi fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampire_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire fiction">Vampire fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werewolf_fiction" title="Werewolf fiction">Werewolf fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">Occult detective</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alien_invasion" title="Alien invasion">Alien invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction" title="Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction">Post-apocalyptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives" title="Cyberpunk derivatives">Cyberpunk derivatives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biopunk" title="Biopunk">Biopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanopunk" title="Nanopunk">Nanopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postcyberpunk" class="mw-redirect" title="Postcyberpunk">Postcyberpunk</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steampunk" title="Steampunk">Steampunk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atompunk" class="mw-redirect" title="Atompunk">Atompunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clockpunk" class="mw-redirect" title="Clockpunk">Clockpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieselpunk" title="Dieselpunk">Dieselpunk</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solarpunk" title="Solarpunk">Solarpunk</a>, aka Hopepunk</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dystopian" class="mw-redirect" title="Dystopian">Dystopian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_science_fiction" title="Hard science fiction">Hard science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_science_fiction" title="Military science fiction">Military science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel universe (fiction)">Parallel universe</a>, aka alternative universe <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">Alternative history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LitRPG" title="LitRPG">LitRPG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_romance" title="Scientific romance">Scientific romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_science_fiction" title="Social science fiction">Social science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soft_science_fiction" title="Soft science fiction">Soft science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_opera" title="Space opera">Space opera</a></li> <li>portal fantasy aka <a href="/wiki/Isekai" title="Isekai">Isekai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Accidental_travel" title="Accidental travel">Accidental travel</a></li></ul></li> <li><b>Speculative cross-genre fiction</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bizarro_fiction" title="Bizarro fiction">Bizarro fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_fiction" title="Climate fiction">Climate fiction</a> (cli-fi)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dying_Earth_(subgenre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying Earth (subgenre)">Dying Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fantasy" title="Science fantasy">Science fantasy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_romance" title="Planetary romance">Planetary romance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sword_and_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword and planet">Sword and planet</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slipstream_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slipstream (genre)">Slipstream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_fiction" title="Weird fiction">Weird fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Weird" class="mw-redirect" title="New Weird">New Weird</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suspense" title="Suspense">Suspense</a> fiction <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">Detective fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gong%27an_fiction" title="Gong'an fiction">Gong'an fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_thriller" title="Legal thriller">Legal thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medical_thriller" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical thriller">Medical thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_thriller" title="Political thriller">Political thriller</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spy_fiction" title="Spy fiction">Spy fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_thriller" title="Psychological thriller">Psychological thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-thriller" title="Techno-thriller">Techno-thriller</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">Tragedy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Melodrama" title="Melodrama">Melodrama</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fiction" title="Urban fiction">Urban fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westerns" class="mw-redirect" title="Westerns">Westerns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_fiction" title="Women's fiction">Women's fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chick_lit" title="Chick lit">Chick lit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_S_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class S (genre)">Class S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Femslash" title="Femslash">Femslash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matron_literature" title="Matron literature">Matron literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">Romance novel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaoi">Yaoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_(genre)" title="Yuri (genre)">Yuri</a></li></ul></li> <li>Workplace tell-all</li> <li><b>General cross-genre</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">Historical romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenile_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Juvenile fantasy">Juvenile fantasy</a></li> <li>LGBT pulp fiction <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gay_male_pulp_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay male pulp fiction">Gay male pulp fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbian_pulp_fiction" title="Lesbian pulp fiction">Lesbian pulp fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbianism_in_erotica" class="mw-redirect" title="Lesbianism in erotica">Lesbian erotica fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_romance" title="Paranormal romance">Paranormal romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_fantasy" title="Romantic fantasy">Romantic fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragicomedy" title="Tragicomedy">Tragicomedy</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_nonfiction_genres">Other nonfiction genres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_writing_genres&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other nonfiction genres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>These are genres belonging to the realm of <a href="/wiki/Nonfiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonfiction">nonfiction</a>. Some genres listed may reappear throughout the list, indicating cross-genre status. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biography" title="Biography">Biography</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Memoir" title="Memoir">Memoir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autobiography" title="Autobiography">Autobiography</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative" title="Slave narrative">Slave narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_autobiography" title="Spiritual autobiography">Spiritual autobiography</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bildungsroman" title="Bildungsroman">Bildungsroman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative#Contemporary_slave_narratives" title="Slave narrative">Contemporary slave narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_narrative#Neo-slave_narratives" title="Slave narrative">Neo-slave narrative</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">Commentary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creative_nonfiction" title="Creative nonfiction">Creative nonfiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critique" title="Critique">Critique</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_criticism" title="Canonical criticism">Canonical criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Form_criticism" title="Form criticism">Form criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Higher_criticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher criticism">Higher criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_criticism" title="Historical criticism">Historical criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_criticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower criticism">Lower criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_criticism" title="Narrative criticism">Narrative criticism</a></li> <li>Postmodern criticism</li> <li>Psychological criticism</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redaction_criticism" title="Redaction criticism">Redaction criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhetorical_criticism" title="Rhetorical criticism">Rhetorical criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_criticism" title="Social criticism">Social criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Source_criticism" title="Source criticism">Source criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">Textual criticism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cult_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Cult literature">Cult literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diary" title="Diary">Diaries and journals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didactic" class="mw-redirect" title="Didactic">Didactic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dialectic" title="Dialectic">Dialectic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabbinic" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabbinic">Rabbinic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aporia" title="Aporia">Aporetic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elenctic" class="mw-redirect" title="Elenctic">Elenctic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_literature" title="Erotic literature">Erotic literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">Essay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treatise" title="Treatise">treatise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">Genealogy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative">Narrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_history" title="People's history">People's history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_history" title="Popular history">Popular history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Official_history" title="Official history">Official history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_history" title="Narrative history">Narrative history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whig_history" title="Whig history">Whig history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lament" title="Lament">Lament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceremonial">Ceremonial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levitical" class="mw-redirect" title="Levitical">Levitical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral" title="Moral">Moral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural">Natural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decree" title="Decree">Royal decree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social" title="Social">Social</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter_(message)" title="Letter (message)">Letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">Manuscript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">Philosophy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">Metaphysics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socratic_dialogue" title="Socratic dialogue">Socratic dialogue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occasional_poetry" title="Occasional poetry">Occasional poetry</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">Religious text</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature" title="Apocalyptic literature">Apocalyptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apologetics" title="Apologetics">Apologetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chant" title="Chant">Chant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confession_(religion)" title="Confession (religion)">Confession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_(religion)" title="Covenant (religion)">Covenant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creed" title="Creed">Creed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daily_devotional" title="Daily devotional">Daily devotional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistle" title="Epistle">Epistle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_epistle" class="mw-redirect" title="Pauline epistle">Pauline epistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_epistles" class="mw-redirect" title="General epistles">General epistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclical" title="Encyclical">Encyclical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homily" title="Homily">Homily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koan" title="Koan">Koan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lectionary" title="Lectionary">Lectionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liturgy" title="Liturgy">Liturgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">Mysticism</a></li> <li>Occult literature</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">Philosophy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_theology" title="Philosophical theology">Philosophical theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion" title="Philosophy of religion">Philosophy of religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_epistemology" title="Religious epistemology">Religious epistemology</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">Prophecy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blessing" title="Blessing">Blessing</a>/<a href="/wiki/Curse" title="Curse">Curse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messianic prophecy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divination" title="Divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracle</a> <ul><li>Woe oracle</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prediction" title="Prediction">Prediction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vision_(spirituality)" title="Vision (spirituality)">Vision</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation">Revelation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_revelation" title="General revelation">Natural revelation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_revelation" title="Special revelation">Special revelation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scripture" class="mw-redirect" title="Scripture">Scripture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_texts" title="Buddhist texts">Buddhist texts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lotus_Sutra" title="Lotus Sutra">Lotus Sutra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripitaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Tripitaka">Tripitaka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_literature" title="Christian literature">Christian literature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_devotional_literature" title="Christian devotional literature">Christian devotional literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_drama" title="Christian drama">Christian tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclical" title="Encyclical">Encyclical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patristic" class="mw-redirect" title="Patristic">Patristic</a> <ul><li>Ante-Nicene</li> <li>Post-Nicene</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalms</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imprecatory_psalm" class="mw-redirect" title="Imprecatory psalm">Imprecatory psalm</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudepigrapha" title="Pseudepigrapha">Pseudepigrapha</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu 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