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WHAT

GENRE

IS IT?

  • Adventure
    is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.
  • Classics
    Fiction that has become part of an accepted literary canon, widely taught in schools
  • Fantasy Fiction
    Fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
  • Historical Fiction
    A story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting
  • Mystery
    Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets.
  • Realistic Fiction
    A story that is true to life.
  • Science Fiction
    story based on the impact of actual, imagined, or potential science, often set in the future or on other planets
  • Sports Fiction
    Pretty self-explanatory but books in the sports fiction genre are made up of stories where a sport has an impact on the plot or main character.
  • Supernatural Fiction
    In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy:
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