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Involves exciting and usually dangerous activities, risk, and boldness.

An account of someone's life, either written by themselves or someone else.

Content intended for a younger audience, around ages 3-10.

A loose literary aesthetic of discomforting thematic elements including fear, pain, and trauma.

Magic! Maybe dragons! Imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting and of characters!

Stories set in a real place, during a culturally recognizable time period, with alternate events.

Intended to evoke an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.

Content suitable for mature audiences generally 17 and older. Not appropriate for children.

A focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved.

Educational, instructional, factual.

Special intensity given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

Love stories, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.

Based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes. Often in space.

Intended to appeal to people around ages 14 to 30. Often centers around "coming of age" themes.