Frequently used LCGFT

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Frequently used LC genre headings

• Action and adventure fiction, comics
• Animal fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Apocalyptic fiction, comics, drama
• Autobiographical fiction, comics, drama, poetry
• Autobiographies
• 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.)
• Bible stories (This heading is used as a genre/form heading for paraphrases in story form of Biblical texts.)
• Bildungsromans
• Biographical fiction, comics, drama, poetry
• Biographies
• Bisexual fiction
• Black humor
• Board books
• Braille books
• Campus fiction
• Christian fiction
• Christmas fiction, poetry
• Choose-your-own stories
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Cookbooks
• Cozy mysteries
• Creative nonfiction
• Cryptologic fiction
• Cyberpunk fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction, plays, comics
• Diary fiction
• Diaries
• Dictionaries
• Directories
• Domestic fiction, poetry
• Dystopian fiction, comics, plays
• Easter fiction
• Electronica (Music)
• Encyclopedias
• Epic fiction, poetry
• Epistolary fiction, poetry
• Erotic fiction, comics, drama, poetry
• Essays
• Fables
• Fairy tales
• Fantasy fiction, comics, drama, poetry
• Fishing fiction
• Flash fiction
• Flip books
• 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.)
• Gangster fiction
• Gay fiction
• Ghost stories, plays
• Glow-in-the-dark books
• Gothic fiction
• Graphic novels
• Grimoires
• Guidebooks
• Historical fiction, comics, drama, poetry
• Horror fiction, comics, plays, poetry
• Humor
• Humorous fiction, comics, poetry
• Hunting fiction
• Instructional and educational works
• Knock-knock jokes
• Large print books
• Law for laypersons
• Legal fiction (Literature)
• Legal drama (Literature)
• Lesbian fiction