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DHASG 2017 Through the Genres Challenge

Introduction: This is a yearly reading challenge that challenges readers to get outside of their comfort zone, and out of their typical reading tastes. In order to participate, readers will have to pick books that fit into different types of fiction or non-fiction.

How this Works:

Below are listed genres and subgenres. I simplified in some cases to make the lists easier to read. You can assemble your own list of genres/subgenres you want to tackle. Challenge yourself but also be realistic. If it’s not a genre you really don't enjoy or want to read, don’t make yourself read it. No need to torture yourself.

Rules:

1. All DHASG members are eligible to participate in this challenge.
2. Books must be read between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017. Readers can sign up at any time during the year.
3. Books may only be used once, and the specific genre can only be used once. If you read a book that fits in multiple genres, you can pick the genre that best fits the book. You are going to be on the honor system. Graphic Novel volumes in a specific series could potentially count separately if they fit into varied categories. Books read can be audiobooks, but all books should be at least 60 pages or 1 hour listening length.
4. Post when you sign up and regularly update your stats through the year. List books by name, author and date and genre that it represents.
5. Rereads count and this challenge can overlap with others on the group.

Levels:

1. Genre Post-Doc: Read 40 or more books to represent distinct genres or subgenres.
2. Genre Doctoral Student: Read 30-39 books representing distinct genres of subgenres.
3. Genre Master Student: Read 20-29 books representing distinct genres or subgenres

Broad Genre:
*You can use another genre/subgenre I may have omitted. Just list what it is next to the book.
**You can use a foreign language book as its own category once. Thereafter, any books read in a different language would go under its specific genre/subgenre.

1. Classic
2. Crime/detective
3. Mythology/Mythopoeia/Folklore/Fairy tale/Fable
4. Fan fiction
5. Fantasy
6. Historical fiction
7. Horror
8. Humor
9. Legend/ Tall tale
10. Magical realism
11. Meta fiction
12. Mystery
13. Picture book
16. Science fiction
17. Short story
18. Suspense/thriller
19. Western –
20. Literary Fiction/Contemporary or Mainstream Fiction
21. Poetry
22. Graphic Novel/Illustrated Novel (technically can be any of the above but it will count separately)
nonfiction
22. Biography/Autobiography
23. Essay Collection –
24. Memoir/Narrative nonfiction/personal narrative
25. Reference book
26. Self-help book
28. Speech(s)
29. Textbook
30. Ethnic/Cultural Studies
31. Play or Screenplay
32. Foreign Language

Fiction Subgenres:

Romance:

1. Adventure Romance
2. African-American
3. Category Romance also known as "Series" titles.
4. Chick-lit
5. Contemporary
6. Dark Fantasy
7. Erotic Romance
8. Erotica
9. Fantasy
10. Futuristic
11. Gothic
12. Historical (for the purposes of this group anything set prior to 1960)
13. Inspirational
14. Interracial Romance
15. LGBT
16. Mainstream
17. Menage a trois
18. Medical
19. Military
20. M/M-Romance
21. Multi-Cultural
22. Mystery/Thriller
23. Paranormal (non Sci-Fi, just supernatural themes)
24. Regency Romance
25. Rock 'n Roll Romance
26. Science Fiction
27. Single Title
28. Suspense
29. Sweet
30. Time-Travel
31. Traditional
32. Urban Fantasy
33. Yaoi
34. Young Adult
35. New Adult

Action/Adventure Subgenres:

1. Action-Comedy
2. Cop Stories
2. Disaster
3. Epic Adventure
4. Escapes
5. Girls with Guns
6. Heist
7. Historical
8. Man vs. Nature (sea, desert, mountain, etc.) aka Survival
9. Martial Arts
10. Military
11. Paranormal
12. Revenge
13. Romantic
14. Search/Expedition
15. Shoot-em-Up
16. Space Adventure
17. Superheroes
18. Survival
19. Swashbucklers
20. Terrorist
21. Treasure Hunts
22. War
23. Westerns
24. Technothriller

Science Fiction Subgenres:

1. Afrofuturism/African or Multicultural-Focused
2. Alien invasion
3. Anthropological science fiction
4. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
5. Black science fiction
6. Christian science fiction
7. Comic science fiction
8. Cyberpunk and derivatives/Decopunk/Dieselpunk/Biopunk
9. Edisonade (aka Inventor Sci-Fi)
10. Science fantasy
11. Feminist science fiction
12. Gothic science fiction
13. Grotesquerie
14. Hard science fiction
15. Imaginary voyage
16. Military science fiction
17. Mundane science fiction
18. New Wave science fiction
19. Post-Futurism
20. Science fiction Western
21. Scientific romance
22. Slipstream (genre)
23. Social science fiction
24. Solarpunk
25. Space opera
26. Speculative evolution
27. Speculative poetry
28. Steampunk
29. Tech noir
30. Transrealism (literature)
31. Weird West
32. Space Western

Other Fiction Genres:

• Brit lit
• Children's literature (can be divided into other genres above)
o Young adult fiction
o Middle Grade/Juvenile
• Erotic fiction
• Graphic novel
• Historical fiction
• Literary fiction
• Occupational fiction
• Philosophical fiction
• Political fiction
• Pulp fiction
• Religious fiction
• Saga
• Urban fiction
• Westerns
• Women's fiction (will be classed separately from romance)
• Speculative fiction (includes science fiction, fantasy and intersection)

Fantasy Subgenres:

1. Epic / high fantasy
2. Hard fantasy
3. Historical fantasy
4. Low fantasy
5. Urban fantasy
a. Paranormal romance
6. Comic fantasy
7. Contemporary fantasy
8. Dark fantasy
9. Fantasy of manners
10. Heroic fantasy
11. Magic realism
12. Mythic
13. Paranormal fantasy
14. Shenmo fantasy
15. Superhero fantasy
16. Sword and sorcery

Horror Subgenres:

1. Body horror/Splatterpunk
2. Erotic
3. Gothic fiction/Southern Gothic
4. Psychological
5. Supernatural / paranormal
6. Cosmic (Lovecraftian)
7. Ghost story
8. Monster literature
9. Occult detective

Speculative cross-genre fiction:

1. Bizarro fiction
2. Slipstream
3. Weird fiction/New Weird

Suspense fiction :

o Crime fiction
o Detective fiction
o Mystery fiction

Thriller :

o Mystery fiction
o Legal thriller
o Medical thriller
o Political thriller
o Spy fiction
o Psychological thriller
o Techno-thriller

Any questions?

Challenge Participants

Danielle TBH
Kristine
Martel

I'm in. I'm going to go for Level 3: Genre Master Student 20-29 books.

I'm in! I'll give Genre Post-Doc a go with 40 books. :)

Cool!

I'm in :).
I'll try 40 books.

1. The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen, 1999, classic rewriting.
2. Vanished by Jaid Black, 2002, erotica.
3. My Sweet Folly by Laura Kinsale, 1997, historical romance: regency.
4. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher, 2016, autobiography.
5. Golem in My Glovebox by R.L. Naquin, 2014, mythic fiction.
6. Hostage Of The Heart by Linda Acaster, 1986, medieval romance.
7. Vicious by V.E. Schwab, 2013, action-adventure : superhero.
8. Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity by James Valliant and C. W. Fahy, 2016, historical study : civilization and religion.
9. In Bed with Mr. Wrong by Katee Robert, 2014, category romance.
10.Shadow's Seduction by Kresley Cole, 2017, M-M romance.
11. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran, 2011, historical fiction.
12. The Risk by S.T. Abby, 2016, forbidden romance.
13. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne, 2016, chick-lit.
14. My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann, 2012, Contemporary fantasy.
15. Which Witch is Which? by Tiffinie Helmer, Kerrigan Byrne, Cindy Stark and Cynthia St. Aubin, 2014, writing partnership.
16. Which Witch is Wicked? by Tiffinie Helmer, Kerrigan Byrne, Cindy Stark and Cynthia St. Aubin, 2015, dark fantasy romance.
17. Sex, Lies, and Online Dating by Rachel Gibson, 2006, romantic suspense.
18. Immortally Yours, by Lyndsay Sands, 2017, speculative fiction romance.
19. How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days, by Kerrelyn Sparks, 2017, epic fantasy romance.
20. A Dog's Purpose, by W. Bruce Cameron, 2010, fiction.
21. Egomaniac by Vi Keeland, 2017, contemporary romance.
22.Track of the Cat, by Nevada Barr, 1993, mystery fiction.
23.Wicked Abyss, by Kresley Cole, 2017, paranormal romance.
24. Not Another Bad Date, by Rachel Gibson, 2008, reunion romance.
25. Le Vagabond des Limbes, tome 6 : Quelle réalité, papa?, by Godard and Ribera, 1980, graphic novel.
26. Magic Bites, by Ilona Andrews, 2007, urban fantasy.
27. Mr. Impossible, by Loretta Chase, 2005, Adventure Romance.
28. Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam, by Amélie Nothomb, 2007, foreign language book (french)
29. Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King, 2013, horror: Supernatural / paranormal.
30. Bunny and the Bear, by Eve Langlais, 2011, paranormal romance parody.
31. The Knocked up Plan, by Lauren Blakely, 2017, Single Title romance.
32. Beat, by Vi Keeland, 2015, Rock'n Roll romance.
33. The Bone Doll's Twin, by Lynn Flewelling, 2001, gothic fantasy.
34. Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch, 2016, science-fiction.
35. The Viscount's Surprise, by Anne Marie Novark, 2011, short story.
36. Die For Me, by Karen Rose, 2007, Mystery/Thriller.
37. Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook, 2011, Steampunk.
38. Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong by Gina Kirkham, 2017, humor.
39. Bertrand Raimbaud de Simiane Baron de Gordes Seigneur de Laval ou La balade entre les croix by Paul Prallet, 2013, historical essay.
40. The Black Lily by Juliette Cross, 2017, fairy tale retelling.
41. #Nerd by Cambria Hebert, 2014, New Adult.
42. Spook Squad, by Jordan Castillo Price, 2013, Occult detective.