Name a literary genre

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Roman a clef— French for a novel with a key hiding real people behind fiction.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aattakatha
• Abecedarian
• Abhang
• Abstract comics
• Absurdist fiction
• Academic novel
• Academic writing
• Acrostic
• Action horror
• Action thriller
• Acts of the Apostles
• Adab
• Adab al-kudya
• Aesopic fable
• Aetiological poetry
• Afrofuturism
• Afterpiece
• Aggadah
• Ainggyin
• Airport novel
• Airwave novel
• Akam poetry
• Akhyayika
• Alien invasion
• Alternative comics
• Amateur sleuth
• Amatory fiction
• American Gothic fiction
• Amish romance
• Anacreontic poetry
• Anarchist fiction
• Ancient Greek novel
• Anecdote
• Animal fantasy
• Animal fiction
• Animal tale
• Annal
• Anthropological science fiction
• Anthropomorphic fiction
• Anti-nihilistic novel
• Anti-novel
• Antipoetry
• Antiquarian writing
• Antiwar fiction
• Apologetics
• Apologia
• Apophthegm
• Aqua drama
• Aretalogy
• Arlabecca
• Ars moriendi
• Ars poetica
• Ars poetriae
• Ars praedicandi
• Arthurian fantasy
• Arthurian romance
• Arts journalism
• Asefru
• Atellan farce
• Atomic bomb literature
• Atompunk
• Attic comedy
• Aubade
• Auto sacramental
• Autobiografiction
• Autobiographical comics
• Autobiographical novel
• Autofiction
• Autotheory
• Avant-garde fiction
• Avant-garde theatre
• Awit
• Backfischroman
• Baihe
• Baile
• Bakhar
• Balbale
• Ballade
• Balliol rhyme
• Balwo
• Bande dessinée
• Bangsian fantasy
• Bara
• BDSM literature
• Beast epic
• Bedtime story
• Belles-lettres
• Bestiary
• Bhana
• Bible fiction
• Biblical poetry
• Biji
• Billionaire romance
• Biographical novel
• Biopunk
• Bishops' saga
• Bizarro fiction
• Blank verse
• Blazon
• Blog fiction
• Boarding school story
• Bodice ripper
• Body horror
• Bonkbuster
• Border ballad
• Bosinada
• Bouts-rimés
• Boys' love
• Bref double
• Breton lai
• Buraanbur
• Burlesque
• Burns stanza
• Business journalism
• Bylina
• Caizi jiaren
• Calligram
• Campus Gothic
• Campus murder mystery
• Campus novel
• Canso
• Cantiga
• Cantiga de amigo
• Cantiga de amor
• Cantiga de escarnio
• Canzone
• Cape punk
• Caper story
• Captivity narrative
• Catalogue poem
• Catechism
• Category romance
• Cattlepunk
• Cautionary tale
• Celebrity memoir
• Cell phone novel
• Cento
• Ceremonial poetry
• Champu
• Changga
• Chanson de geste
• Chant royal
• Chapter book
• Character sketch
• Chastushka
• Chat fiction
• Chaubola
• Chaupai
• Chautisa
• Chernukha
• Chicanofuturism
• Children's fantasy
• Children's horror
• Children's nonfiction
• Children's poetry
• Chitra-kavya
• Chivalric romance
• Chivalric romantic fantasy
• Chivalric saga
• Choka
• Choral lyric
• Christian apologetics
• Christian devotional literature
• Christian drama
• Christian poetry
• Christian romance
• Christian science fiction
• Christian tragedy
• Christmas horror
• Christmas romance
• Chronicle
• Chuanqi
• Chuanqi drama
• Chuanyue
• Ci poetry
• Cinquain
• City comedy
• City lament
• City mysteries
• Class S
• Clean romance
• Clerical mysteries
• Clerihew
• Climate fiction
• Clockpunk
• Closet drama
• Cobla esparsa
• Collaborative fiction
• Collage novel
• Colonial adventure
• Comedia
• Comedia nueva
• Comedic journalism
• Comedy drama
• Comedy fiction
• Comedy horror
• Comedy of humours
• Comedy of intrigue
• Comedy of manners
• Comedy thriller
• Comic fantasy
• Comics journalism
• Comics poetry
• Commedia dell'arte
• Commedia erudita
• Commentarii
• Commentary
• Complaint
• Concept book
• Concrete poetry
• Conduct book
• Confession
• Confessional poetry
• Confessional writing
• Consilia
• Consolatio
• Conspiracy fiction
• Conte
• Conte cruel
• Conte philosophique
• Contemporary Christian fiction
• Contemporary fantasy
• Contemporary romance
• Contemporary saga
• Contrapuntal poetry
• Conversation poem
• Conversion narrative
• Cooking manga
• Copla
• Cordel literature
• Corrido
• Country house poem
• Country noir
• Courtroom drama
• Cowboy romance
• Cozy fantasy
• Cozy fiction
• Creation myth
• Creative nonfiction
• Creed
• Creepypasta
• Crime comedy
• Crime comics
• Critical essay
• Crônica
• Crossover fiction
• Cultivation fiction
• Cumulative tale
• Cute girls doing cute things
• Cyber-thriller
• Cycle play
• Daily devotional
• Danmei
• Dark fiction
• Dark romance
• Dastan
• Debate poetry
• Decadent literature
• Decasyllabic quatrain
• Décima
• Decopunk
• Demi-sonnet
• Demon fiction
• Design comics
• Devotional literature
• Devotional poetry
• Dialogue
• Dialogue poem
• Dialogue sonnet
• Diamante
• Diary fiction
• Diaspora fiction
• Diatribe
• Didactic literature
• Didactic poetry
• Dieselpunk
• Dilemma tale
• Dime novel
• Dindsenchas
• Dinggedicht
• Dirge
• Disputation
• Dithyramb
• Divan poetry
• Documentary theatre
• Dodoitsu
• Doggerel
• Doha
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic noir
• Domestic thriller
• Domestic tragedy
• Double dactyl
• Drabble
• Dramatic monologue
• Dramatic poetry
• Dream vision
• Dróttkvætt
• Dub poetry
• Duma
• Duplex
• Dying earth
• Early reader
• Ecchi
• Echtra
• Eclogue
• Eco-thriller
• Ecofiction
• Ecopoetry
• Eddic poetry
• Edisonade
• Égyin
• Ekphrastic poetry
• Elegiac comedy
• Elegiac couplet
• Elevated horror
• Elevenie
• Elogium
• Emblem book
• Emblematic poetry
• Encomium
• Encyclical
• Encyclopedic novel
• Englyn
• Entertainment journalism
• Entremés
• Entwicklungsroman
• Environmental journalism
• Epic romance
• Epigram
• Epinikion
• Epistle
• Epistolary— A novel told entirely in letters or documents, like Dracula.
• Epistolary poem
• Epitaph
• Epithalamium
• Epode
• Epyllion
• Erasure poetry
• Ero guro
• Erotic comics
• Erotic horror
• Erotic memoir
• Erotic poetry
• Erotic romance
• Erotic thriller
• Erziehungsroman
• Esperpento
• Estrif
• Etheree
• Ethnography
• Ewe halo
• Exemplum
• Existentialist fiction
• Exodium
• Experimental literature
• Experimental theatre
• Exploitation fiction
• Expository verse
• Extravaganza
• Extreme horror
• Fabliau
• Fabula crepidata
• Fabulation
• Fairytale fantasy
• Familiar essay
• Family saga
• Fantastique
• Fantasy adventure
• Fantasy comedy
• Fantasy of manners
• Fashion journalism
• Féerie
• Feghoot
• Female artist's novel
• Female epic
• Feminist literature
• Feminist science fiction
• Feminist theatre
• Femslash
• Fescennine verse
• Feuilleton
• Fib
• Fifth gospel
• Fin de fiesta
• Financial thriller
• Finnic incantations
• Finnic riddles
• First contact
• Flintlock fantasy
• Florida Western
• Flyting
• Folk ballad
• Folk horror
• Folk play
• Fonnkèr
• Food journalism
• Food memoir
• Food writing
• Fool's literature
• Forensic thriller
• Fornaldarsaga
• Fotoromanzo
• Found footage fiction
• Found poetry
• Fractured fairy tale
• Fragmentary novel
• Fratire
• Frontier fiction
• Fu
• Fumetti
• Fumetti neri
• Funerary texts
• Furry fiction
• Gag cartoon
• Gag-a-day
• Gangster fiction
• Garden writing
• Gasa
• Gaslamp fantasy
• Gaucho literature
• Gawęda
• Gawęda szlachecka
• Gay fiction
• Gay male pulp fiction
• Gekiga
• General epistle
• Generation ship fiction
• Género chico
• Geographical writing
• Georgian romance
• Georgic
• Gesaku
• Gesta
• Ghazal
• Ghostlore
• Giallo
• Glose
• Gnomic poetry
• Gods and demons fiction
• Gogyōshi
• Golden shovel
• Goliardic verse
• Gong'an fiction
• Gongdou
• Gospel
• Gothic fantasy
• Gothic romance
• Gothic science fiction
• Grand Guignol
• Graphic medicine
• Graveyard poetry
• Greek mythology retelling
• Greek tragedy
• Grief memoir
• Grimdark
• Griot narrative
• Grook
• Grotesque
• Grunge lit
• Guerrilla theatre
• Gushi
• Gyeonggi-style poetry
• Habsiyat
• Hagiography
• Haibun
• Haiga
• Haikai
• Hainteny
• Hamasah
• Hamd
• Hard fantasy
• Harem
• Hasidic tale
• Haunted house story
• Hayren
• Heimatroman
• Hen lit
• Hentai
• Heroic couplet
• Heroic drama
• Heroic epistle
• Heroic lay
• Heroic noir
• Hexaemeron
• Hexameter poetry
• Highland romance
• Hija
• Hikaye
• Hip hop poetry
• Hip-hop theater
• Hippodrama
• Histoires tragiques
• Historical adventure
• Historical crime fiction
• Historical fantasy
• Historical military fiction
• Historical mystery
• Historical thriller
• History play
• Hockey romance
• Holiday romance
• Holocaust literature
• Homeric hymn
• Hopepunk
• Horatian ode
• Horatian satire
• How-to
• Huaben
• Hudibrastic
• Hyangga
• Hymn
• Hysterical realism
• I-novel
• Iambic poetry
• Ibitekerezo
• Idyll
• Imaginary voyage
• Immigrant fiction
• Immram
• Imperial romance
• Imprecatory psalm
• In-yer-face theatre
• Incantation
• Indigenous futurism
• Insha
• Inspirational fiction
• Inspirational romance
• Interlude
• Intermède
• Invasion literature
• Invective
• Inverted detective story
• Ioca monachorum
• Irregular ode
• Isekai
• Islamic fiction
• Itihasa
• Iyashikei
• Izibongo
• Jacobin novel
• Jangnama
• Jataka
• Jest book
• Jeu-parti
• Jewish fiction
• Jiangshi fiction
• Jidaigeki
• Jidaimono
• Joke
• Joruri
• Josei
• Jueju
• Juvenalian satire
• Kabuki
• Kagyin
• Kaidan
• Kaiju
• Kanshi
• Kantan chamorrita
• Karagöz play
• Katha
• Kavya
• Khamriyya
• Khandakavya
• Kibyoshi
• Kidung
• Kinah
• Kings' saga
• Kitchen sink drama
• Klon
• Koan
• Kodomomuke
• Kojoruri
• Kokkeibon
• Korean horror
• Kunstlerroman
• Kural
• Kusazōshi
• Kyogen
• Kyoka
• Kyoshi
• Kyrielle
• Lab lit
• Labor literature
• Lad lit
• Lai
• Lament
• Lampoon
• Landay
• Lanterne
• Lapidary
• Latin American Gothic
• Lehrstücke
• Lesbian fiction
• Lesbian pulp fiction
• LGBT pulp fiction
• Libertarian science fiction
• Libertine novel
• Libretto
• Life writing
• Light novel
• Light verse
• Literacy narrative
• Literary ballad
• Literary criticism
• Literary diary
• Literary fairy tale
• Literary journalism
• Literary nonsense
• LitRPG
• Living newspaper
• Loa
• Locked-room mystery
• Lolicon
• Long poem
• Long-form journalism
• Lorica
• Lost world
• Love poetry
• Low fantasy
• Lục bát
• Lunarpunk
• Lüshi
• Lutherstrophe
• Lyric essay
• M/M romance
• Macabre
• Macchietta
• Madih
• Mafia fiction
• Magical girl
• Mahakavya
• Mandarin ducks and butterflies
• Manhua
• Manhwa
• Manifesto
• Manqabat
• Maqama
• Märchen
• Marsiya
• Martial arts fiction
• Martyrology
• Masal
• Mashup novel
• Masnavi
• Masque
• Mathematical fiction
• Mawgun
• Maxim
• Mecha
• Media tie-in
• Medical fiction
• Medical journalism
• Medical romance
• Medical thriller
• Medieval fantasy
• Meditation
• Meistersang
• Melic poetry
• Memorate
• Memory play
• Men's adventure
• Menippean satire
• Mermaid fiction
• Merveilleux scientifique
• Metacomic
• Metafiction
• Metahistorical romance
• Microhistory
• Middle comedy
• Midrash
• Milesian tale
• Military fiction
• Military history
• Military science fiction
• Mime
• Mimiambus
• Minnesang
• Miracle collection
• Miracle play
• Mirror for princes
• Misery literature
• Mock epic
• Mommy lit
• Monodrama
• Monody
• Monogatari
• Monologue
• Monopolylogue
• Monorhyme
• Monostich
• Monster erotica
• Monster fiction
• Morality play
• Morality tale
• Moskalik
• Motivational literature
• Mpreg
• Multiverse fiction
• Mummers' play
• Munazara
• Mundane science fiction
• Musaddas
• Musar literature
• Music memoir
• Musical fiction
• Muwashshah
• Mystery play
• Mythic fiction
• Mythography
• Mythopoeia
• Mythpunk
• Naat
• Nanopunk
• Nanxi
• Narrative history
• Narrative poetry
• Nataka
• Nativity play
• Natural history
• Nature memoir
• Nature poetry
• Nature writing
• Nazm
• Neo-noir
• Neo-slave narrative
• Neopolicial
• New adult
• New comedy
• New journalism
• New weird
• Newgate novel
• News story
• Nikki
• Ninjobon
• Nivola
• Noblebright
• Noh
• Non-fiction comics
• Non-fiction novel
• Nonet
• Nonsense verse
• Nordic noir
• Northern
• Notebook
• Nouveau roman
• Novel of circulation
• Novel of ideas
• Novel of manners
• Novel of sensibility
• Novela negra
• Novela rosa
• Novelette
• Novelization
• Novelogue
• Nowpunk
• Nursery literature
• Obituary
• Occasional poetry
• Occult detective fiction
• Occult fiction
• Occupational fiction
• Octonary
• Official history
• Old comedy
• Omegaverse
• One-act play
• Onegin stanza
• Onitsha market literature
• Op-ed
• Oracular literature
• Oral epic
• Oral history
• Oral literature
• Oriental tale
• Origin myth
• Oríkì
• Ortaoyunu
• Otogizoshi
• Otomechikku
• Ottava rima
• Outdoor literature
• Ovi
• Padavali
• Paean
• Palindrome poem
• Palinode
• Palliata
• Panchali
• Panchatantra tale
• Panegyric
• Pansori
• Pantomime
• Pantoum
• Paraclausithyron
• Parade
• Paradelle
• Paradoxography
• Parallel novel
• Parallel world science fiction
• Paranoid fiction
• Paranormal fantasy
• Paranormal fiction
• Partimen
• Pasku
• Pasquinade
• Passion narrative
• Passion play
• Pastoral
• Pastoral drama
• Pastoral fiction
• Pastoral romance
• Pastoral science fiction
• Pastoralia
• Pastourelle
• Patericon
• Pathography
• Pathya vat
• Penny dreadful
• Pentina
• People's history
• Performance poetry
• Periodical essay
• Periplus
• Persona poetry
• Personal essay
• Personal narrative
• Petrarchan sonnet
• Petrofiction
• Philosophical dialogue
• Philosophical fiction
• Philosophical poetry
• Philosophical tale
• Phlyax play
• Photo essay
• Picaresque
• Pindaric ode
• Pinghua
• Pirate fiction
• Piyyut
• Planetary romance
• Planh
• Plantation tradition
• Poetic drama
• Polar
• Polemic
• Political drama
• Political fiction
• Political journalism
• Political memoir
• Political poetry
• Political theatre
• Pop culture fiction
• Popular fiction
• Popular history
• Popular psychology
• Popular science
• Pornographic fiction
• Portal fantasy
• Portrait
• Posse mit Gesang
• Post-cyberpunk
• Postcolonial fiction
• Postcolonial poetry
• Postmodern literature
• Potboiler
• Pourquoi story
• Powest
• Prabandham
• Praetexta
• Prahasana
• Prairie fiction
• Praise poetry
• Prakarana
• Prehistoric fantasy
• Prehistoric fiction
• Priapeia
• Prison fiction
• Prison literature
• Private eye fiction
• Problem play
• Progression fantasy
• Proletarian literature
• Propemptikon
• Prophecy
• Prose poem
• Prose romance
• Prosimetrum
• Prospect poem
• Protest literature
• Protest poetry
• Prothalamion
• Protreptic
• Proverb
• Psalm
• Pseudotranslation
• Psychedelic literature
• Psychological drama
• Psychological fiction
• Pulp noir
• Punk literature
• Puppet play
• Puram poetry
• Purana
• Purimshpil
• Pyo
• Qasida
• Qene
• Qijue
• Qingchun wenxue
• Qit'a
• Qu poetry
• Quaestio
• Quantum fiction
• Quaternion
• Quatorzain
• Queer fiction
• Queer romance
• Question-and-answer literature
• Quiet horror
• Quintain
• Quintilla
• Quit lit
• Radio drama
• Ragale
• Rakugo
• Randai
• Rayok
• Raypunk
• Readers theater
• Real person fiction
• Realist fiction
• Récit
• Recovery of the Holy Land
• Recursive science fiction
• Refugee fiction
• Regional fiction
• Religious fiction
• Religious horror
• Religious poetry
• Renga
• Renshi
• Responsa
• Restoration comedy
• Retelling
• Revenge tragedy
• Reverse harem
• Reversible poem
• Review
• Revisionist Western
• Rhapsody
• Rhyme royal
• Rhymed prose
• Rictameter
• Riddle
• Riding rhyme
• Rihla
• Rímur
• Risala
• Ritha
• Road novel
• Robinsonade
• Robot fiction
• Rockstar romance
• Rogue literature
• Roman à thèse
• Roman-feuilleton
• Roman-fleuve
• Romanetto
• Romantic drama
• Romantic suspense
• Romantic thriller
• Rondeau
• Rondel
• Rondelet
• Rotrouenge
• Roundel
• Ruba'i
• Rule horror
• Rune poem
• Rural fantasy
• Rural fiction
• Ruritanian romance
• Sad girl fiction
• Sagas of Icelanders
• Sagas of saints
• Sainete
• Salam
• Samurai fiction
• Sanqu
• Sapphic romance
• Sapphic stanza
• Saqi-nama
• Satirical essay
• Satyr play
• Scar literature
• Schauerroman
• School story
• Schwank
• Science fantasy
• Science fiction comedy
• Science fiction erotica
• Science fiction horror
• Science fiction romance
• Science fiction Western
• Science journalism
• Science writing
• Scientific romance
• Sea story
• Second chance romance
• Sedoka
• Seduction novel
• Seinen
• Selichah
• Senryu
• Sensation novel
• Sentimental comedy
• Serial
• Serial killer fiction
• Sestain
• Sestina
• Setsuwa
• Sewamono
• Shadorma
• Shahr ashob
• Shairi
• Shakespearean sonnet
• Sharebon
• Shastra
• Shi poetry
• Shifter romance
• Shilling shocker
• Shojo
• Shonen
• Short-story cycle
• Shotacon
• Sicilian octave
• Sick lit
• Sigweya
• Sijo
• Silkpunk
• Silva
• Silver-fork novel
• Sinofuturism
• Sinsoseol
• Sira
• Sīra shaʿbiyya
• Sirventes
• Sisindiran
• Skaldic poetry
• Skaz
• Skeltonic verse
• Sketch
• Skolion
• Slash fiction
• Slasher fiction
• Slave narrative
• Slavic fantasy
• Slipstream
• Small-town romance
• Social criticism
• Social novel
• Social science fiction
• Socratic dialogue
• Soft science fiction
• Solarpunk
• Song thất lục bát
• Sonnet sequence
• Sotadic verse
• Sotie
• Sound poetry
• Southern noir
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Soz
• Space Gothic
• Space horror
• Space Western
• Speculative evolution
• Speculative poetry
• Speculum literature
• Spenserian sonnet
• Spenserian stanza
• Spiritual autobiography
• Spiritual literature
• Splatterpunk
• Sports fiction
• Sports journalism
• Sports manga
• Sports romance
• Spy-fi
• Stream of consciousness fiction
• Subhāṣita
• Subterranean fiction
• Suburban Gothic
• Summa
• Superhero fantasy
• Superhero horror
• Supernatural horror
• Supernatural mystery
• Surreal comedy
• Survival fiction
• Survival horror
• Survival narrative
• Sutra
• Swashbuckler
• Sword and planet
• Sword-and-soul
• Symposium literature
• Synty
• Systems novel
• Ta'ziyeh
• Taarab poetry
• Tabaqat
• Table talk
• Tadhkirah
• Tafsir
• Táin bó
• Talking animal story
• Tanaga
• Tanka
• Tardiyya
• Tarikh
• Tarji-band / Tarkib-band
• Tarkib-Band
• Tart noir
• Tartan noir
• Tasmanian Gothic
• Teaching stories
• Teatro di narrazione
• Tech noir
• Techno-horror
• Techno-thriller
• Technology journalism
• Teens' love
• Ten-minute play
• Tenson
• Terza rima
• Terzanelle
• Testimonio
• Tetractys
• Text comics
• Thanbauk
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Theatre-fiction
• Theological fiction
• Theophrastan character
• Threnody
• Time travel romance
• Toddler book
• Toga play
• Topographical poetry
• Tourism fiction
• Trade journalism
• Transgressive fiction
• Transrealism
• Treatise
• Trench literature
• Triban
• Trickster tale
• Triolet
• Troubadour lyric
• Trouvère lyric
• Trova
• True adventure
• Trümmerliteratur
• Tuyugh
• Tweede asem
• Tween literature
• Ubwiiru
• Ukiyo-zoshi
• Underground comix
• Universal history
• Urban Christian fiction
• Urban fiction
• Urban Gothic
• Urban legend
• Uta monogatari
• Utendi
• Vachana
• Vampire romance
• Venba
• Verbatim theatre
• Verbless poetry
• Verse novel
• Verse romance
• Verse satire
• Victorian burlesque
• Victorian romance
• Victory ode
• Video game journalism
• Vignette
• Village fiction
• Villanelle
• Virelai
• Visionary fiction
• Visual poetry
• Waka
• War poetry
• Wasf
• Wayang
• Web novel
• Webcomic
• Webtoon
• Weird fantasy
• Weird fiction
• Weird menace
• Weird West
• Well-made play
• Werewolf fiction
• Western romance
• Whore dialogues
• Widescreen baroque
• Wilderness fiction
• Wisdom literature
• Witch fiction
• Woe oracle
• Womanist literature
• Wordless novel
• Workplace tell-all
• Wuxia
• Xenofiction
• Xianxia
• Xiaoshuo
• Xuanhuan
• YA fantasy
• Yadam
• Yadu
• Yagan
• Yomihon
• Young adult romance
• Yuefu
• Yuri
• Zajal
• Zaju
• Zeitroman
• Zhaiwen
• Zhanghui novel
• Zhiguai
• Zombie comedy
• Zuhdiyya
• Zuihitsu
• ʿeltā

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Action fiction
• Allegory
• Alternate history
• Apocalyptic fiction
• Ballad
• Bildungsroman— German for a coming-of-age novel.
• Chick lit
• Christian fiction
• Cosmic horror
• Cozy mystery
• Cyberpunk
• Dark academia
• Dark fantasy
• Detective fiction
• Diary
• Elegy
• Epic
• Erotica
• Fable
• Fan fiction
• Farce
• Flash fiction
• Folktale
• Free verse
• Ghost story
• Gothic
• Graphic novel
• Hard science fiction
• Hardboiled
• High fantasy
• Historical romance
• Journalism
• Legal thriller
• Legend
• Limerick
• Literary fiction
• Lyric poetry
• Magical realism
• Manga
• Melodrama
• Middle grade
• Noir
• Novella
• Nursery rhyme
• Ode
• Parable
• Paranormal romance
• Parody
• Philosophy
• Picture book
• Police procedural
• Political thriller
• Post-apocalyptic fiction
• Prose
• Psychological horror
• Psychological thriller
• Pulp fiction
• Regency romance
• Religious literature
• Romantic comedy
• Romantic fantasy
• Saga
• Satire
• Slam poetry
• Slice of life
• Southern Gothic
• Space opera
• Speculative fiction
• Spy fiction
• Steampunk
• Superhero fiction
• Supernatural fiction
• Suspense
• Sword and sorcery
• Tall tale
• Time travel fiction
• Tragicomedy
• Travel writing
• Urban fantasy
• Utopian fiction
• Vampire fiction
• War fiction
• Women's fiction
• Zombie fiction

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Adventure
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Children's literature
• Comedy
• Comic
• Crime
• Drama
• Dystopian
• Essay
• Fairy tale
• Haiku
• Historical fiction
• History
• Memoir
• Myth
• Nonfiction
• Novel
• Self-help
• Short story
• Sonnet
• Tragedy
• True crime
• Western
• Young adult

The most common answer on the board.

• Fantasy
• Fiction
• Horror
• Mystery
• Poetry
• Romance
• Science fiction
• Thriller