Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/GenreHierarchy
| Overall | Genre | Description | Category | Stub template |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can be used in the text and infobox to describe the novel | Use to categorise the article | Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs | ||
| General Novels | [[Novel]] | Novels that cannot be described by other categories | [[Category:Novels]] | {{novel-stub}} |
| Specific Genres with subgenres | [[Adventure fiction]] | Novels featuring high adventure, action-based narrative often with travel | [[Category:Adventure novels]] | {{adventure-novel-stub}} |
| [[Alternate history]] | Novels that ask "What If", where history has developed differently | [[Category:Alternate history novels]] | {{alternate-hist-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Anti-war]] | Novels whose message argues for peace rather than war | [[Category:Anti-war novels]] | {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Autobiographical]] | Novels write about the author's own life story | [[Category:Autobiographical novels]] | {{autobio-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Biographical]] | Novels providing slight fictionalization of someone else's life | [[Category:Biographical novels]] | {{bio-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Bildungsroman]] | Novels featuring the education, maturation or coming-of-age | [[Category:Bildungsromans]] | {{bildungsroman-stub}} | |
| [[Comedy]] | Novels featuring comical situations or characters | [[Category:Comedy novels]] | {{comedy-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Crime fiction]] | Novels about criminal characters, settings or events, without the whodunit | [[Category:Crime novels]] | {{crime-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Detective fiction]] | Novels where the main character is a detective or criminal investigator, typically with a whodunit ending | [[Category:Detective novels]] | {{mystery-novel-stub}} or {{crime-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Dystopian]] | Novels about a dystopian society or character highlighting bleak, dehumanizing or fearful life | [[Category:Dystopian novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Epistolary novel]] | Novels that are epistle-like or written as a series of documents | [[Category:Epistolary novels]] | {{epistolary-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Erotic fiction]] | Novels featuring adult content, typically of a sexual nature, aka erotica | [[Category:Erotic novels]] | {{erotic-novel-stub}} (sorts to novel-stub category) | |
| [[Family saga]] | Novels that portray the history of a particular family, usually multi-generational in nature | [[Category:Family saga novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Fantasy]] | Novels based on fantastical, magical, mythical and/or classical legends | [[Category:Fantasy novels]] | {{fantasy-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Feminist]] | Novels focusing on women's rights usually with a female protagonist | [[Category:Feminist novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Gothic fiction]] | Novels featuring dark and horrific situations and/or character, usually set in the past (see genre) | [[Category:Gothic novels]] | {{gothic-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[Southern Gothic]] | Subgenre of gothic (see genre) – set in the Southern U.S. | [[Category:Southern Gothic novels]] | {{gothic-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Historical fiction]] *With the subcategory for children |
Novels set among historical events, prior to author's time period | [[Category:Historical novels]] *See also: [[Category:Children's historical novels]] |
{{hist-novel-stub}} *{{child-hist-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Horror fiction]] | Novels featuring horrific or scary subject matter | [[Category:Horror novels]] | {{horror-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Jacobin novel]] | Novels that espouse ideals of the French revolution | [[Category:Jacobin novels]] | {{hist-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Legal thriller]] | Subgenre of thriller with a legal or law theme | [[Category:Legal thriller novels]] | {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Medical fiction]] | Subgenre of thrillers focusing on medicine or medical professions | [[Category:Medical novels ]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Mystery fiction]] | Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit | [[Category:Mystery novels]] | {{mystery-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Non-fiction]] | Not included in scope – often misplaced here! | [[Category:Non-fiction novels]] | {{nonfiction-book-stub}} | |
| [[Paranormal romance]] | Subgenre of the Speculative fiction and Romance novel | [[Category:Paranormal romance novels]] | {{romance-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Parody]] | Novels that mimic the style of a more serious work using satire, irony, or ridicule | [[Category:Parody novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Philosophical]] | Novels where philosophical ideas form the main crux of the narrative | [[Category:Philosophical novels]] | {{philos-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Political fiction]] | Novels that deals with affairs of state, elections or political theme | [[Category:Political novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Psychological]] | Novels that highlight a psychological storyline, theme or character(s) | [[Category:Psychological novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Romance novel]] | Novels that feature a romantic situation, usually formulaic in structure | [[Category:Romance novels]] | {{romance-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Satirical]] | Novels whose characters, themes and/or situations elicit disapproval in a cautionary way | [[Category:Satirical novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Sentimental novel]] | Novels which elicit sentimental emotions or intellect, set in the 18th century | [[Category:Sentimental novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Science fiction]] *With the subcategory for children |
Novels featuring scientific advancement or contact with advanced civilizations | [[Category:Science fiction novels]] *See also: [[Category:Children's science fiction novels]] |
{{sf-novel-stub}} *{{child-sf-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Speculative fiction]] | Novels that speculate about futuristic, fantastical or supernatural existence (Sci-Fi, Alt-Hist, Fantasy, Horror have their own categories and stubs) | [[Category:Speculative fiction novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) or individual spec fiction genre | |
| [[Sports]] | Novels that feature a particular sport or sportsman | [[Category:Sports novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Spy fiction]] | Novels about spying and espionage | [[Category:Spy novels]] | {{spy-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Techno-thriller]] | Subgenre of Thrillers with a technical or modern science element | [[Category:Techno-thriller novels]] | {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]] | Novels that feature fast-paced, action-packed suspense | [[Category:Thriller novels]] | {{thriller-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Time travel]] | Subgenre of the Speculative fiction which goes forwards or backwards in time | [[Category:Novels about time travel]] | {{sf-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Utopian]] | Novels about hopeful, optimistic or idealistic characters and/or worlds | [[Category:Utopian novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[Victorian fiction]] | Novels set in Victorian times | [[Category:Victorian novels]] | {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| [[War novel|War fiction]] | Novels about wars and/or warfare, set modern or historical times | [[Category:War novels]] | {{war-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[American Revolutionary War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Revolutionary War | [[Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War]] | {{AmericanRevolutionaryWar-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[French Revolutionary Wars]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the French Revolutionary Wars | [[Category:Novels set during the French Revolutionary War]] | {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| ::[[American Civil War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Civil War | [[Category:Novels set during the American Civil War]] | {{AmericanCivilWar-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[Napoleonic Wars]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the Napoleonic Wars | [[Category:Novels set during the Napoleonic Wars]] | {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice) | |
| ::[[First World War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War One | [[Category:Novels set during World War I]] | {{WWI-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[Second World War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War Two | [[Category:Novels set during World War II]] | {{WWII-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[Korean War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the Korean War | [[Category:Novels set during the Korean War]] | {{Korea-War-novel-stub}} | |
| ::[[Vietnam War]] | Subgenre of War fiction set in the Vietnam War | [[Category:Novels set during the Vietnam War]] | {{VietnamWar-novel-stub}} | |
| [[Western fiction]] | Novels set in the American West, featuring cowboys, gunslingers, settlers and 'native Americans' | [[Category:Western (genre) novels]] | {{western-novel-stub}} | |
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