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Fiction
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Fiction that is intended to be instructional
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Works of fiction that feature home and family life
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Fiction that features the political milieu
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Fiction in which the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters are of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative
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-- See Also the narrower term Road fiction
Fiction in which a life-changing journey is a central part of the action
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-- See Also the narrower term Novels
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-- See Also the narrower term Nature fiction
Fiction that depicts the natural world and its phenomena. For fiction that depicts the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds, and especially the impact of human activities on nature, see Ecofiction
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Fiction that features samurai and is usually set in the Tokugawa period of Japanese history
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-- See Also the narrower term Animal fiction
Fiction whose main characters are animals that may be anthropomorphized
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-- See Also the narrower term Prison fiction
Fiction that features prisons and prison life
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-- See Also the narrower term Campus fiction
Fiction that is set on and around a college or university campus and focuses on the lives and interactions of students, faculty, administrators, and staff
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Fiction in which the plot or setting assumes an alternative outcome of an historical event. For nonfiction that presents alternative outcomes of historical events and subsequent changes in history see Counterfactual histories
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Fiction that features fishing and fishers
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-- See Also the narrower term War fiction
Fiction that features military conflicts. For fiction that features the military lifestyle and loyalty to the armed forces and its codes and is generally set during peacetime see Military fiction
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-- See Also the narrower term Bildungsromans
Fiction depicting the development of a character from youth to adulthood
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Works that present themselves as autobiographies but whose narrators and events are fictional. For fiction that is based on events in the author's life, but employs fictional characters intermixed with fictional events, see Autobiographical fiction
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Fiction that emphasizes innovative or unconventional technique
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-- See Also the narrower term Bible fiction
Imaginative fiction in which characters and settings are taken from the Bible. For paraphrases of Biblical texts in story form see Bible stories
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Fiction that depicts the lives of real people interspersed with fictional characters and events. For fiction in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Romans à clef
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Fiction in which the reader chooses from a number of possible options for developing the story
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Fiction with rural settings that idealize rustic, rural, or small-town life
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Fiction that features the practice of law
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-- See Also the narrower term Robinsonades
Fiction about survival without the aid of civilization, frequently on a deserted island after a shipwreck or marooning
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-- See Also the narrower term Diary fiction
Fiction written in diary form. For fiction written wholly or partially in the form of letters, telegrams, electronic mail messages, instant messages, etc., see Epistolary fiction
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Fiction that features medical personnel and the practice of medicine
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-- See Also the narrower term Epic fiction
Fiction depicting action on a broad scale and often characterized by grandiose treatment of individual and/or national destiny
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Fiction in which magic and extraordinary characters are integral to the story
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-- See Also the narrower term Folk tales
Short narratives of uncertain origin that are based on oral tradition
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-- See Also the narrower term Frame stories
Stories that contain other stories
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-- See Also the narrower term Urban fiction
Fiction that features African Americans in inner cities and that generally includes explicit profanity, sex, and violence
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-- See Also the narrower term Gothic fiction
Fiction that depicts gloomy and antiquated settings, characters that are haunted by secrets and unresolved conflicts, psychological and physical terror, and elements of the supernatural
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Fiction set during a recognizable time prior to the time in which they were written
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Fiction that features hunting and hunters
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Fiction that features a specific social ill, or contemporary political issue, to draw attention to it
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-- See Also the narrower term Romans à clef
Fiction in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names. For fiction that depicts the lives of real people see Biographical fiction
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Fiction that primarily depicts romantic love. For medieval chivalric tales written in prose or poetry that depict an idealized code of civilized behavior that combines loyalty, honor, and courtly love see Romances
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Modern fiction in which fantastic or mythical elements are included in a narrative that is otherwise realistic
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-- See Also the narrower term Sea fiction
Fiction that depicts a heroic main character on the open sea and whose plot progressively strips away the norms of land-based society
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Fiction that features mathematics and mathematicians
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-- See Also the narrower term Gay fiction
Fiction about the gay experience
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