Home›Speculative Fiction›GenreBrowse ByGenreGenre sorts a literary work by the kind of story it tells. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel of manners" following Elizabeth Bennet's "character development," a genre built around social behavior rather than adventure or the supernatural. This dimension groups works that tell the same broad kind of story.GenreComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)GenreFilter Results24 entriesAuthorAllAdolfo Bioy Casares (1)Aldous Huxley (2)Alexander Pushkin (1)Amélie Wen Zhao (3)Anthony Burgess (4)Ben Okri (1)Bram Stoker (2)Chloe Gong (2)Cormac McCarthy (1)Daniel Keyes (2)Eugene Burdick (1)Frank Herbert (2)Frank Schätzing (2)George du Maurier (1)George Orwell (1)Günter Grass (1)H. G. Wells (2)H. P. Lovecraft (4)Han Kang (1)Harper Lee (2)Harry Bates (1)Haruki Murakami (1)Harvey Wheeler (1)Henry James (3)Horace Walpole (1)Isaac Asimov (1)Isabel Allende (1)J. R. R. Tolkien (1)Jack London (1)James Herbert (1)John W. Campbell (2)Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (3)José Saramago (1)Jules Verne (2)Kaliane Bradley (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Lev Grossman (2)Liu Cixin (1)Margaret Atwood (3)Mary Shelley (2)Mohsin Hamid (1)Nikolai Gogol (2)Octavia E. Butler (1)Oscar Wilde (1)Peter George (1)Philip K. Dick (3)Ray Bradbury (2)Shigeru Kayama (1)Sir Thomas More (2)Stanisław Lem (1)Ted Chiang (1)Thea von Harbou (2)Theodore Sturgeon (1)Toni Morrison (1)Ursula K. Le Guin (1)Uttam Ghosh (2)Victor Hugo (1)W. Somerset Maugham (1)William Faulkner (1)William Gibson (2)William S. Burroughs (1)Yann Martel (1)Yevgeny Zamyatin (2)Yu Xiangdou (1)Composition YearAll1516 (2)1602 (1)1764 (1)1818 (2)1831 (1)1834 (1)1835 (2)1869 (2)1871 (3)1872 (3)1890 (1)1891 (1)1895 (1)1897 (3)1898 (3)1901 (2)1907 (1)1908 (2)1920 (2)1926 (2)1927 (2)1928 (1)1929 (2)1930 (3)1931 (2)1932 (2)1936 (1)1937 (1)1938 (2)1940 (2)1943 (2)1944 (1)1949 (1)1951 (3)1952 (1)1953 (2)1954 (1)1955 (1)1956 (1)1958 (1)1959 (3)1960 (2)1961 (1)1962 (5)1965 (2)1968 (3)1969 (1)1971 (1)1972 (1)1978 (1)1979 (1)1983 (2)1984 (2)1985 (3)1987 (1)1990 (1)1991 (2)1995 (1)1998 (1)2001 (1)2003 (2)2004 (1)2006 (1)2007 (1)2009 (3)2016 (2)2017 (1)2019 (3)2024 (1)2025 (2)Original LanguageAllArabic (2)Bulgarian (2)Czech (2)English (23)Finnish (2)French (3)Georgian (2)German (4)Greek (2)Irish (2)Japanese (3)Korean (3)Latin (2)Polish (1)Portuguese (1)Romanian (4)Russian (2)Serbian (2)Sinitic (4)Spanish (3)Turkish (2)Country of OriginAllArgentina (1)Canada (4)Chile (1)China (2)England (1)France (3)Germany (3)India (2)Ireland (1)Japan (2)New Zealand (2)Poland (1)Portugal (1)Russia (3)South Korea (1)Soviet Union (1)United Kingdom (11)United States (15)AudienceAllAdult (2)Children's (8)General (19)Young Adult (6)AwardAllAlex Award (2)Arthur C. Clarke Award (3)Audie Awards (3)Believer Book Award (1)BILBY Award (1)Booker Prize (2)Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature (1)Governor General's Award for English-language fiction (3)Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series (1)Hugo Award for Best Novel (3)Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2)Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel (3)International Booker Prize (1)International Fantasy Award for Best Fiction (1)James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1)Jules Verne Prize (1)Los Angeles Times Book Prize (4)Nebula Award for Best Novel (2)Nebula Award for Best Novella (1)Otherwise Retrospective Award (1)Philip K. Dick Award (2)Prometheus Award (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (5)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (3)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (2)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (2)Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work (3)Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story (1)Theodore Sturgeon Award (1)Tähtivaeltaja Award (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllEngland (1)Kolkata (2)Massachusetts (1)New England (3)San Francisco (3)Seoul (1)Defining TraitAllCharacter Focus (1)Form and Technique (4)Mood and Effect (5)Purpose and Message (1)Setting and World (4)Subject Matter (6)Origin YearAll1764 (1)1800 (1)1957 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAdventure FictionGenre2 entriesBildungsromanGenre1 entryBlack ComedyGenre1 entryContemporary FantasyGenre1 entryCyberpunkGenre1 entryFantasyGenre6 entriesGhost StoryGenre1 entryGothic FictionGenre11 entriesHard Science FictionGenre1 entryHorror FictionGenre8 entriesLow FantasyGenre1 entryMagic RealismGenre1 entryThe NovelGenre20 entriesPhilosophical FictionGenre1 entryPost-Apocalyptic FictionGenre1 entrySatireGenre2 entriesScience FictionGenre30 entriesScientific RomanceGenre1 entryShort FictionGenre3 entriesSpeculative FictionGenre1 entryTragedyGenre3 entriesUtopian and Dystopian FictionGenre10 entriesVampire LiteratureGenre1 entryYoung Adult FictionGenre1 entryComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.