In October 2018, I decided to increase the variety of genre fiction that I read (I’m already planning on a lot of books in translation as well as a few of literary awards (Wellcome Book Award, Booker Award, and National Book Award in Translation). Here is a list of genres and subgenres listed in Wikipedia. The genres are in bold. If it’s a series, I have to read the entire series for it to count (for the sake of actually finishing some series).
- Adventure novel
- Romance
- Historical romance – The Witch of Willow Hall, by Hester Fox
- Contemporary romance
- Historical fiction
- Historical Mystery
- Holocaust Novels
- Prehistoric fiction
- Literary fiction
- Mathematical fiction
- Metafiction
- Slave narrative
- Contemporary slave narrative
- Neo-slave narrative
- Occupational Fiction
- Legal thriller
- Medical fiction
- Philosophical fiction
- Existentialism
- Absurdism
- Political fiction
- Pulp fiction
- Christian fiction
- Christian science fiction / fantasy
- Contemporary Christian fiction
- Historical Christian Fiction
- Islamic fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Saga
- Fantasy
- Epic / high fantasy
- Prehistoric fantasy
- Ancient History fantasy
- Medieval fantasy
- Low fantasy
- Urban fantasy
- Paranormal romance
- Comic fantasy
- Contemporary fantasy
- Dark fantasy
- Magic realism
- Retelling myth/fairy tale
- Paranormal fantasy
- Superhero fantasy
- Horror
- Body horror
- Gothic fiction – The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks
- Supernatural / paranormal
- Cosmic (Lovecraftian)
- Ghost story
- Monster literature
- Vampire fiction
- Werewolf fiction
- Occult detective
- Science fiction
- Alien invasion
- Post-apocalyptic – The Passage (series), by Justin Cronin
- Cyberpunk
- Biopunk
- Steampunk
- Dystopian
- Hard science fiction
- Military science fiction
- Parallel universe, aka alternative universe
- Alternative history
- Soft science fiction
- Space opera
- Speculative cross-genre fiction
- Climate fiction (cli-fi)
- Slipstream
- Weird fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Crime fiction
- Detective fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Thriller
- Legal thriller
- Medical thriller
- Political thriller
- Spy fiction
- Psychological thriller
- Techno-thriller
- Urban fiction
- Westerns
- Women’s fiction
- LGBT fiction
