The Genre Challenge

[Jessica]

Read a book in each of the following genres. Post here with your TBR list and updates. Good luck and happy reading.

Fiction Categories:

Romance
General/Literary Fiction
Action or Crime
Mystery
Horror or Suspense
Historical Fiction
Drama
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Classic (can be combined with any other category i.e. Classic Suspense).
Young Adult (can be combined with any other category i.e. YA Romance).

Non-Fiction Categories:

Self-help/Inspirational/Motivational
Biography
History
Travel
Instructive (i.e. cook book, how-to book)

*list not final, suggestions welcome

[Toni]

How about YA for the people who don't normally read YA. I read YA all the time, but some people could stretch themselves like I'm going to be stretching myself to read a biography!!!

[Jessica]

That's a god one. I'll add it when I get home.

[Teresa]

Is erotica romance? LOL

[Andrea (Drea)]

Read Captive in the Dark or Seduced in the Dark. Excellent books but definitely out of your comfort zone. They were incredibly good but they are erotica. It is a book where you are supposed to hate one of the characters but the author gets you to like him.

[Kathryn]

Sounds like a good one! I hate fantasy, though, so I doubt I will get to that, but who knows.

Would Robyn Carr's Virgin River series be categorized as fiction or romance?

[Teri Pre]

Either one Kathryn!

[Kathryn]

One more question, what would the difference be between fiction and general/literary fiction? I guess literary fiction would be considered a classic, but general fiction, how would that different from the genre of fiction?

[Jessica]

Oops, I'm sorry if this was confusing. Fiction and Non-fiction aren't categories by themselves. They are just headings to break up the categories. In Fiction there is romance, YA, etc etc in Non-Fiction there is biography, history etc. does that make it more clear? I edited the formatting on the original post too so it should make more sense :)

[Toni]

Fiction Categories:

Romance
General/Literary Fiction - Invisible - Carla Buckley
Action or Crime
Mystery
Horror or Suspense - Say You're Sorry - Michael Robotham
Historical Fiction
Drama
Science Fiction - Gravity - Melissa West
Fantasy - The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Classic (can be combined with any other category i.e. Classic Suspense).
Young Adult (can be combined with any other category i.e. YA Romance). - The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken

Non-Fiction Categories:

Self-help/Inspirational/Motivational
Biography
History
Travel
Instructive (i.e. cook book, how-to book)

[Rich]

Fiction Categories:
Romance -
General/Literary Fiction - Naked Lunch the Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Action or Crime - I Died Yesterday by Kenneth Robeson
Mystery - Booked for Murder by Tim Myers
Horror or Suspense - Ass Gobins of Auschwitz by Cameron Pierce
Historical Fiction -
Drama -
Fantasy -
Classic (can be combined with any other category i.e. Classic Suspense). -
Young Adult (can be combined with any other category i.e. YA Romance). -

Non-Fiction Categories:
Self-help/Inspirational/Motivational - The Vampire Cookbook by J.O. Osborne
Biography - Boys of Steel by Marc Tyler Nobelman
History - Killer History by Marek McKenna
Travel -
Instructive (i.e. cook book, how-to book) - Anatomy of an Adult Film by R. Richard

[Rich]

Shouldn't science fiction be a category as well?

[Teresa]

You are so right Rich!

[Jessica]

Rich wrote: "Shouldn't science fiction be a category as well?"

Yes! I can't believe I missed it. I'll add it now.

[Rich]

I thought maybe people were considering "fantasy" as "science fiction", but that's really two way different categories by most accounts.

[Jessica]

Rich wrote: "I thought maybe people were considering "fantasy" as "science fiction", but that's really two way different categories by most accounts."

No, the list is wonky because I made it up off the top of my head. If anyone else thinks of a genre to add just let me know.

[Richard]

So this is why humor is such a hard sell. Guess I'm going to need to switch genres. It always amazes me that so many people would rather have more DRAMA in their lives than humor.

[Ruth]

Fiction Categories:

Romance...Comfort and Joy by Kristen Hannah
General/Literary Fiction...Lightning Bug by Donald Harington
Action or Crime...Joyland by Stephen King...November 17, 2013
Mystery.... A Charmed Death by Madelyn Alt
Horror or Suspense.. The Walking Dead by Robert Kirpatrick...Graphic Novels...
Historical Fiction...Loving Eliza by Ruth Ann Nordin...
Drama...Hong Kong Rose by Xi Xu...July 3, 2013
Fantasy..Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones....March 16, 2013
Science Fiction..A Wrinkle in Time By Madeline L'Engle...March 10, 2013
Classic (can be combined withother category i.e. Classic Suspense).The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Young Adult (can be combined with any other category i.e. YA Romance). Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I am in....:)

Non-Fiction Categories:

Self-help/Inspirational/Motivational... Marley and Me by John Grogan
Biography..After the Fall: A Climber's True Story of Facing Death and Finding Life
by Craig DeMartino...July 9, 2013
History
Travel
Instructive (i.e. cook book, how-to book)