... stories

Adventure - Adventure or action-driven

Friendship - Dealing significantly with friendships between characters

Romantic - Having one or more major plotlines dealing with romantic relationships

Animal - Where animals play a major role

Girls - More likely to appeal to girls than to boys

School - Based largely around a school setting

Arthurian - Connected to the legends of King Arthur

Gritty - Having a more gritty or realistic feel

SciFi - Set in a technological future or where science plays a major role

Biographical - Explicitly or implicitly biographical

Growing-Up - Dealing with youngsters growing to adulthood

Seafaring - Based at sea or with a nautical feel

Boys - More likely to appeal to boys than to girls

Historical - Set partly or wholly in the past

Short - A collection of short stories

Classic - Widely recognised as classic, typically still in print after 50 years

Horror - Relying on grotesque or gory tension

Spooky - Ghostly or supernatural happenings

Coping with - Concerning major characters coping with particular personal situations

Humorous - Whose effect, or some of whose parts, are intended to be comic

Thought-provoking - Raising issues which repay consideration and discussion

Detective - Crime stories involving one character solving the mystery

Macabre - Relying on the macabre for effect

Time-Travel - Turning on time-travel

Documentary - Non-fiction book documenting something

Magic - Where magical abilities exist and are used

War - Set in time or war or dealing closely with wartime issues

Family - Dealing significantly with family relationships

Moral Issue - Driven largely by one single issue

Fantasy - Set in an alternate reality, possibly parallel to ours, possibly not

Mythical - In a mythical setting