An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
Cookbook
A cookbook or cookery book is a kitchen reference containing recipes. Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in a particular cuisine or category of food. Recipes in cookbooks are organized in various ways: by course, by main ingredient, by cooking technique, alphabetically, by region or country, and so on.
Dystopian
Dystopian is a subgenre of science fiction writing, but it has become so popular that it deserves its own category. A dystopian book takes place in the future when some cataclysmic event has destroyed society.
Essay.
A short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.
Folklore.
The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" as handed down by word of mouth. Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes and other oral traditions. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles common to the group.
History:
History is the systematic study and documentation of human activity. The time period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory.
Legend.
Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material. A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived, both by teller or listeners, to have taken place in human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude.
Magic realism
magical realism is a style of literary fiction and art. It paints a realistic view of the world while also adding magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
Examples of magical realism are:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Realistic Fiction
Realistic fiction has a story that is true to life and seems real but isn’t actually real. Stories under this book genre are often set in modern times and have characters who seem like real people.
Examples of realistic fiction are:
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Wonder by R.J Palacio
Memoir
A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. A memoir is a book written by someone about their own life. Memoirs often focus on one particular aspect of their life, such as a defining moment that puts the person on a particular life path. Memoirs are often written by famous individuals.
Mythology
These books include a legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism and often pertaining to the actions of the gods.
Examples of mythology books are:
- Mythology by Edith Hamilton
- Treasury of Greek Mythology by Donna Jo Napoli
- Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional or fictional. Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. Narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
Novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book.
Poetry
Poetry, also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and meter − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. In short: Verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that creates emotional responses
Prose:
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists of verse based on rhythmic metre or rhyme.
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, with the intent of ...
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help.
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words, and using those words in their semantic
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