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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo
Thanks, in regard to my own reading preference I think I can subdivide a wide genre to smaller subcategories in the following order. . .
I. Science Fiction
A. Dystopian
___i. transrealism
(yes, I have been thinking about this). . Can anyone else subdivide their preferred reading genre? |
Sure.
Everybody can.
If you look at the left sidebar of the Kindle ebookstore (using just one example) and drill down to Science fiction, you'll see:
Science Fiction
Adventure (42,602)
Alien Invasion (4,025)
Alternative History (9,274)
Anthologies & Short Stories (11,561)
Classics (431)
Colonization (3,778)
Cyberpunk (4,001)
Dystopian (17,685)
First Contact (8,750)
Galactic Empire (3,189)
Genetic Engineering (7,712)
Hard Science Fiction (8,291)
LGBT (1,837)
Metaphysical & Visionary (4,280)
Military (13,062)
Post-Apocalyptic (18,710)
Space Exploration (3,431)
Space Opera (20,300)
Steampunk (4,229)
TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations (3,013)
Time Travel (8,813)
Do it for Mystery and you get:
ystery
African American (1,671)
Collections & Anthologies (6,504)
Cozy (15,164)
Hard-Boiled (10,377)
Historical (10,522)
International Mystery & Crime (8,691)
LGBT (1,572)
Police Procedurals (14,288)
Private Investigators (12,097)
Series (1,002)
Traditional Detectives (8,362)
Women Sleuths (25,289)
Romance?
omance
African American (11,857)
Clean & Wholesome (2,106)
Collections & Anthologies (16,680)
Contemporary (147,863)
Fantasy (31,239)
Gothic (1,709)
Historical Romance (47,366)
Holidays (11,656)
Inspirational (30,516)
LGBT (39,555)
Military (16,588)
Multicultural & Interracial (16,695)
Mystery & Suspense (48,921)
New Adult & College (20,167)
Paranormal (50,460)
Romantic Comedy (39,037)
Science Fiction (12,139)
Series (28,011)
Sports (9,948)
Time Travel (4,711)
Westerns (15,736)
If you know what you like you can easily reduce a flood of 5million titles to maybe a thousand that you are really interested in. When I go looking for SF titles in the Kindle store I don't care about the half million romance titles or the 300,000 mystery titles. Only the 150,000 SF titles. And of those I'm more interested in adventure and space opera than political or dystopian SF.
It's common practice to break down book listings by genre and subgenre/theme.
It helps people browse through listings holding millions of different books.