Fiction by genre

umbrella genre of fiction that departs from realism, comprising science fiction, horror, fantasy, alternative history, post-apocalyptic, gothic, superhero fiction etc.

multimedia genre of stories set primarily in the American Old West

unauthorised amateur derivative fiction

type of prose and verse narrative

depiction of everyday experience in art and entertainment

fantasy subgenre using elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre

The I-novel (, , ) is a literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe a type of confessional literature where the events in the story correspond to events in the author's life. This genre was founded based on the Japanese reception of naturalism during the Meiji period, and later influenced literature in other Asian countries as well. This genre of literature reflects greater individuality and a less constrained method of writing. From its beginnings, the I-novel has been a genre that also is meant to expose aspects of society or of the author's life.

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sub-genre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction

fiction with protagonists aged 18-30

novel-length work of humorous fiction

literary genre

literary genre

A Künstlerroman (; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. It could be classified as a sub-category of Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, one way a Künstlerroman may differ from a Bildungsroman is its ending, where a Künstlerroman hero rejects the everyday life, but a Bildungsroman hero settles for being an ordinary citizen. According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years. A novel specifically

Ethnofiction is a subfield of ethnography which produces works that introduce art, in the form of storytelling, "thick descriptions and conversational narratives", and even first-person autobiographical accounts, into academic works.

type of fan fiction

Japanese literary genre

pejorative term to describe certain realist-genre books

subgenre of romance novels

subgenre of crime fiction

subgenre of thriller fiction

fiction genre set primarily in Northern Canada and Alaska

fiction set in cities