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A type of literature in which all its members share common characteristics, which may be considered generally and through story elements. Not all of the common characteristics in every piece of literature within specific genre contains every characteristic and some charateristics are included in more than one genre (list of genre types). 

Book lists by Year

Book lists by Genre

Fiction

Stories created from imagination and not necessarily fact. They include realistic, animal, thrillers, mysteries, romances, sports, fantasy, high fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, fables, myths, legends, and folk epics,

Nonfiction

Stories which were true. They include biography, autobiography, informational, speech, essay, history.

Poetry

Literature with rhythm and verse. It includes nursery rhymes, ballads, epics, songs, poems, and lyrics

Mixed genre

 

 

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