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General Novels [[Novel]] Novels that cannot be described by other categories [[Category:Novels]] {{novel-stub}}
Specific Genres with subgenres [[Adventure fiction]] Novels featuring high adventure, action-based narrative often with travel [[Category:Adventure novels]] {{adventure-novel-stub}}
[[Alternate history]] Novels that ask "What If", where history has developed differently [[Category:Alternate history novels]] {{alternate-hist-novel-stub}}
[[Anti-war]] Novels whose message argues for peace rather than war [[Category:Anti-war novels]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Autobiographical]] Novels write about the author's own life story [[Category:Autobiographical novels]] {{autobio-novel-stub}}
[[Biographical]] Novels providing slight fictionalization of someone else's life [[Category:Biographical novels]] {{bio-novel-stub}}
[[Bildungsroman]] Novels featuring the education, maturation or coming-of-age [[Category:Bildungsromans]] {{bildungsroman-stub}}
[[Comedy]] Novels featuring comical situations or characters [[Category:Comedy novels]] {{comedy-novel-stub}}
[[Crime fiction]] Novels about criminal characters, settings or events, without the whodunit [[Category:Crime novels]] {{crime-novel-stub}}
[[Detective fiction]] Novels where the main character is a detective or criminal investigator, typically with a whodunit ending [[Category:Detective novels]] {{mystery-novel-stub}} or {{crime-novel-stub}}
[[Dystopian]] Novels about a dystopian society or character highlighting bleak, dehumanizing or fearful life [[Category:Dystopian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Epistolary novel]] Novels that are epistle-like or written as a series of documents [[Category:Epistolary novels]] {{epistolary-novel-stub}}
[[Erotic fiction]] Novels featuring adult content, typically of a sexual nature, aka erotica [[Category:Erotic novels]] {{erotic-novel-stub}} (sorts to novel-stub category)
[[Family saga]] Novels that portray the history of a particular family, usually multi-generational in nature [[Category:Family saga novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Fantasy]] Novels based on fantastical, magical, mythical and/or classical legends [[Category:Fantasy novels]] {{fantasy-novel-stub}}
[[Feminist]] Novels focusing on women's rights usually with a female protagonist [[Category:Feminist novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Gothic fiction]] Novels featuring dark and horrific situations and/or character, usually set in the past (see genre) [[Category:Gothic novels]] {{gothic-novel-stub}}
::[[Southern Gothic]] Subgenre of gothic (see genre) – set in the Southern U.S. [[Category:Southern Gothic novels]] {{gothic-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Historical fiction]]
*With the subcategory for children
Novels set among historical events, prior to author's time period [[Category:Historical novels]]
*See also: [[Category:Children's historical novels]]
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[[Horror fiction]] Novels featuring horrific or scary subject matter [[Category:Horror novels]] {{horror-novel-stub}}
[[Jacobin novel]] Novels that espouse ideals of the French revolution [[Category:Jacobin novels]] {{hist-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Legal thriller]] Subgenre of thriller with a legal or law theme [[Category:Legal thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Medical fiction]] Subgenre of thrillers focusing on medicine or medical professions [[Category:Medical novels ]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Mystery fiction]] Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit [[Category:Mystery novels]] {{mystery-novel-stub}}
[[Non-fiction]] Not included in scope – often misplaced here! [[Category:Non-fiction novels]] {{nonfiction-book-stub}}
[[Paranormal romance]] Subgenre of the Speculative fiction and Romance novel [[Category:Paranormal romance novels]] {{romance-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Parody]] Novels that mimic the style of a more serious work using satire, irony, or ridicule [[Category:Parody novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Philosophical]] Novels where philosophical ideas form the main crux of the narrative [[Category:Philosophical novels]] {{philos-novel-stub}}
[[Political fiction]] Novels that deals with affairs of state, elections or political theme [[Category:Political novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Psychological]] Novels that highlight a psychological storyline, theme or character(s) [[Category:Psychological novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Romance novel]] Novels that feature a romantic situation, usually formulaic in structure [[Category:Romance novels]] {{romance-novel-stub}}
[[Satirical]] Novels whose characters, themes and/or situations elicit disapproval in a cautionary way [[Category:Satirical novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Sentimental novel]] Novels which elicit sentimental emotions or intellect, set in the 18th century [[Category:Sentimental novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Science fiction]]
*With the subcategory for children
Novels featuring scientific advancement or contact with advanced civilizations [[Category:Science fiction novels]]
*See also: [[Category:Children's science fiction novels]]
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[[Speculative fiction]] Novels that speculate about futuristic, fantastical or supernatural existence (Sci-Fi, Alt-Hist, Fantasy, Horror have their own categories and stubs) [[Category:Speculative fiction novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice) or individual spec fiction genre
[[Sports]] Novels that feature a particular sport or sportsman [[Category:Sports novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Spy fiction]] Novels about spying and espionage [[Category:Spy novels]] {{spy-novel-stub}}
[[Techno-thriller]] Subgenre of Thrillers with a technical or modern science element [[Category:Techno-thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]] Novels that feature fast-paced, action-packed suspense [[Category:Thriller novels]] {{thriller-novel-stub}}
[[Time travel]] Subgenre of the Speculative fiction which goes forwards or backwards in time [[Category:Novels about time travel]] {{sf-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Utopian]] Novels about hopeful, optimistic or idealistic characters and/or worlds [[Category:Utopian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[Victorian fiction]] Novels set in Victorian times [[Category:Victorian novels]] {{novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
[[War novel|War fiction]] Novels about wars and/or warfare, set modern or historical times [[Category:War novels]] {{war-novel-stub}}
::[[American Revolutionary War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Revolutionary War [[Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War]] {{AmericanRevolutionaryWar-novel-stub}}
::[[French Revolutionary Wars]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the French Revolutionary Wars [[Category:Novels set during the French Revolutionary War]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
::[[American Civil War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the American Civil War [[Category:Novels set during the American Civil War]] {{AmericanCivilWar-novel-stub}}
::[[Napoleonic Wars]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Napoleonic Wars [[Category:Novels set during the Napoleonic Wars]] {{war-novel-stub}} (no specific notice)
::[[First World War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War One [[Category:Novels set during World War I]] {{WWI-novel-stub}}
::[[Second World War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the World War Two [[Category:Novels set during World War II]] {{WWII-novel-stub}}
::[[Korean War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Korean War [[Category:Novels set during the Korean War]] {{Korea-War-novel-stub}}
::[[Vietnam War]] Subgenre of War fiction set in the Vietnam War [[Category:Novels set during the Vietnam War]] {{VietnamWar-novel-stub}}
[[Western fiction]] Novels set in the American West, featuring cowboys, gunslingers, settlers and 'native Americans' [[Category:Western (genre) novels]] {{western-novel-stub}}
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