https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLC Flip books GFT/GENRE.pdf Folk literature https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/Archiv Folk tales ed-LCGFT16/freelcgft.html Ghost stories, plays Glow-in-the-dark books Looks like this: Gothic fiction 655_7 Biographies.|2lcgft Graphic novels Guidebooks Frequently used LC genre headings Historical fiction, comics, drama, poetry Accumulative rhymes Horror fiction, comics, plays, poetry Accumulative tales Humorous fiction, comics, poetry Action and adventure fiction, comics Hunting fiction Animal fiction Knock-knock jokes Alternative histories (Fiction) Law for laypersons Apocalyptic fiction, comics, drama Legal fiction (Literature) Autobiographical fiction, comics, drama, poetry Legal drama (Literature) Autobiographies Lesbian fiction Bible fiction, plays Lift-the-flap books Bible stories Magic realist fiction Bildungsromans Martial arts fiction Biographical fiction, comics, drama, poetry Medical fiction, drama Biographies Military fiction Bisexual fiction Mythological fiction Black humor Noir fiction, comics Braille books Novels in verse Campus fiction Nursery rhymes Christmas fiction, poetry Paranormal fiction, comics Choose-your-own stories Parodies (Literature) Comics (Graphic works) Pastoral fiction, drama, poetry Cookbooks Peplum films Creative nonfiction Picaresque fiction Cryptologic fiction Political fiction, plays, poetry Cumulative rhymes Pop-up books Cumulative tales Prison fiction Cyberpunk fiction Psychological fiction Detective and mystery fiction, plays, comics Puzzles and games Diary fiction Puns Diaries Quotations Dictionaries Railroad fiction Directories Readers (Publications) Domestic fiction, poetry Rebuses Dystopian fiction, comics, plays Religious fiction, comics, drama, poetry Easter fiction Riddles Encyclopedias Road fiction Epic fiction, poetry Robinsonades Epistolary fiction, poetry Romance fiction, comics Erotic fiction, comics, drama, poetry Romans à clef Essays Satirical literature Fables School yearbooks Fairy tales Science fiction, comics, plays, poetry Fantasy fiction, comics, drama, poetry Sea fiction Fishing fiction Self-help publications Flash fiction Serialized fiction Short stories Bible stories This heading is used as a Sound books genre/form heading for paraphrases in story Space operas form of Biblical texts. Works of imaginative Split page books Sports fiction, comics fiction in which characters and settings are Spy fiction, comics taken from the Bible are entered under Bible Steampunk fiction, comics fiction. Stories in rhyme Superhero comics, fiction Tall tales Textured books Thrillers (Fiction) Thriller comics Textured books Time-travel fiction Tongue twisters Toy and movable books Transgender fiction Trivia and miscellanea True crime stories Upside-down books Urban fiction Utopian fiction, plays Vampire fiction War fiction, comics, plays, poetry, drama Werewolf fiction Western fiction, comics, plays Zombie fiction

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Folk literature (This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works based on the oral traditions of societies.) Folk tales (This heading is used as a genre/form heading for popular short narratives of uncertain origin, often based on oral tradition.)

Bible fiction This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works of imaginative fiction in which characters and settings are taken from the Bible. Paraphrases in story form of Biblical texts are entered under Bible stories.