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- academic novels
- historical fiction
- Bildungsroman
- Ecriture feminine
- allegories
- anthropological novel
- anti-novel
- autobiographical
- cautionary tales
- chronicle of a life
- dialogue novels
- diary novels
- epic novels
- epistolary
- existential
- experimental, general
- fables & parables
- fairy tales
- family sagas & chronicles
- fantastic tales
- Gothic
- graphic novels
- magic realism
- literary mysteries
- noir
- nonfiction novels
- nouveau roman
- novels in verse
- novels of ideas
- novels of manners
- novels of sentiment
- picaresque
- precursors of the novel
- psychological realism
- realism
- roman a clef
- romanticism & neo-romanticism
- satire
- short-story collections
- short-story cycles
- social criticism
- stream of consciousness
- Surrealism
- symbolism
- experimental, time
- utopian-dystopian
- pastoral
- road novels
- travel diaries
- life stories
- literary suspense novels
- avant-garde
- involuted, self-referential
- debut
- modernism
- postmodernism
- cinematic techniques
- doubling techniques
- flash fiction
- metafiction
- mythological motifs
- minimalism
- fiction about writing fiction
- unreliable narrators
- fragmented narrative
- framed narratives
- reverse chronology
- illustrated novels
- dialect
- recipe novels
- novellas
- anthology (single author)
- anthropomorphism
- literary westerns
- literary thrillers
- naturalism
- scatological
- Biographical Fiction
- récit
- dream-like
- literary adventure novels
- multiple points of view
- Avant-Pop
- serialized novels (romans feuilletons)
- post-colonial
- literary science fiction
- conditions of England novels
- sense of place
- experimental, language
- tearjerkers
- time travel
- millennium novels
- novelizations
- transgressive
- multi-generational novels
- literary erotica
- posthumous
- based on a true story
- inspirational
- experimental, structure
- survivors' stories
- juvenilia
- folktales
- anthology (multiple authors)
- OuLiPo
- literary horror
- literary romances
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