Most people, especially new readers purchase books based on the hype from the media about a book or a catchy book cover without taking an important aspect into cognizance – The Book Genre.
A book genre is a specific type of book distinguished from others by some characteristic or quality. Books can be classified into two broad genres – Fiction and Non-fiction. Non-fiction books contain factual information such as biographies and self help while fiction books contain stories that are made up by the author such as mystery and romance. These two can be further divided into many sub-genres as listed below:
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Action and adventure | Art |
| Alternate history | Autobiography |
| Anthology | Biography |
| Children’s | Book review |
| Comic book | Cookbook |
| Crime | Diary |
| Drama | Dictionary |
| Fairytale | Encyclopedia |
| Fantasy | Guide |
| Graphic novel | Health |
| Historical fiction | History |
| Horror | Journal |
| Mystery | Memoir |
| Picture book | Prayer |
| Poetry | Religion, spirituality, and new age |
| Romance | Textbook |
| Satire |
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