Books+By+Genre

= Fiction books in the library are organized by the following genres: =

James Bond, Robert Ludlum—Bourne Series, Tom Clancy
 * Action Adventure**—Physical Action and Violence—Quest or Military-style mission—

Agatha Christie, Mary Higgins Clark, Janet Evanovich, John Grisham, James Patterson
 * Crime/Detective/Mystery**—committing and solving crimes

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, [|Chuck Palahniuk], RL Stine
 * Suspense Thriller**—audience is waiting for something significant to happen; reader experiences a thrill by identifying with the hero and the danger he faces

Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, Danielle Steel
 * Romance**—love and a happy ending

Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Crichton, William Gibson, George Lucas, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Kurt Vonnegut, HG Wells
 * Science Fiction**—future science and technology

Madeleine L’Engle, CS Lewis, Stephenie Meyer, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Anne Rice
 * Fantasy**—take place in an invented world, mythical—Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Vampire,

Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey
 * Western**—American West of the 19th Century

Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, William Faulkner, Jack London, Herman Melville, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Classics**—works that claim literary merit; classics

variety of authors who may only make it to the lists once in a lifetime, Nicholas Sparks, Alice Sebold, Jodi Picoult, Linda Olsson, Madeleine Wickham, Janelle Brown, Mitch Albom, Emily Giffin, Sue Monk Kidd, Chuck Palahniuk
 * Adult Literacy**—works that make the best seller lists

Laurie Halse Anderson, Judy Blume, Anne Brashares, Meg Cabott, Robert Cormier, Paula Danziger, Lois Duncan, SE Hinton, Ellen Hopkins, [|Khaled Hosseini], Lurlene McDaniel, Garth Nix, Joan Lowery Nixon, Gary Paulsen, Richard Peck, Christopher Pike, Phillip Pullman, Anne Rinaldi, Markus Zasuk, Paul Zindel
 * Young Adult Fiction**—coming of age, dating, fitting in, friendships, sexuality, drugs, self esteem, school, relationships with parents and siblings

Beverly Lewis, Colleen McCullough, David McCullough, James Michener, Mark Twain, Khaled Hosseini
 * Historical Fiction**—a story that takes place during a notable time in history

Nicholas Sparks
 * Chick Lit**—mainly dealing with love and romance designed to appeal to a largely female target audience