- Fiction
- Academic
- Action
- Adventure
- Bildungsroman
- Comic
- Crime fiction
- Epistolary
- Erotic
- Family saga
- Historical fiction
- Literary nonsense
- Manners
- Military
- Mystery fiction
- Occupational fiction
- Philosophical fiction
- Political fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Realism
- Religious fiction
- Roman à clef
- Romance
- Speculative fiction
- Superfluous man
- Suspense fiction
- Thriller
- Tragedy
- Travel
- Visionary
- Western
- Non-fiction
Genres
A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions.