... stories
- Adventure - Adventure or action-driven
- Animal - Where animals play a major role
- Arthurian - Connected to the legends of King Arthur
- Biographical - Explicitly or implicitly biographical
- Boys - More likely to appeal to boys than to girls
- Classic - Widely recognised as classic, typically still in print after 50 years
- Coping with - Concerning major characters coping with particular personal situations
- Detective - Crime stories involving one character solving the mystery
- Documentary - Non-fiction book documenting something
- Family - Dealing significantly with family relationships
- Fantasy - Set in an alternate reality, possibly parallel to ours, possibly not
- Friendship - Dealing significantly with friendships between characters
- Girls - More likely to appeal to girls than to boys
- Gritty - Having a more gritty or realistic feel
- Growing-Up - Dealing with youngsters growing to adulthood
- Historical - Set partly or wholly in the past
- Horror - Relying on grotesque or gory tension
- Humorous - Whose effect, or some of whose parts, are intended to be comic
- Macabre - Relying on the macabre for effect
- Magic - Where magical abilities exist and are used
- Moral Issue - Driven largely by one single issue
- Mythical - In a mythical setting
- Romantic - Having one or more major plotlines dealing with romantic relationships
- School - Based largely around a school setting
- SciFi - Set in a technological future or where science plays a major role
- Seafaring - Based at sea or with a nautical feel
- Short - A collection of short stories
- Spooky - Ghostly or supernatural happenings
- Thought-provoking - Raising issues which repay consideration and discussion
- Time-Travel - Turning on time-travel
- War - Set in time or war or dealing closely with wartime issues