GENRES
I know that there are a lot of genres and genre typing, but for my system I am going to list dramas in the following parent categories: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Contemporary, Historical, Other. The parent category is the category in which most of these genres will fall under. From here we will branch into subcategories for the genres as the following:
FANTASY
Classical Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
Adventure Fantasy
Grim Dark
Magical Realism
Urban Fantasy
Superhero
General
SCIENCE FICTION
Hard Sci-Fi
Space Opera
Dystopian
Apocalypse/Post Apocalypse
Cyberpunk
Steampunk
Afropunk
Biopunk
Science-Fantasy
Utopian
Exploration (Time or Space)
Alien (Mind or Being)
Creationism (Virtual Reality, Robots, or Creatures)
General
THRILLER
Political Thriller
Suspense
HORROR
Lovecraftian
Psychological
Horror-Thriller
Horror Drama
Monsters and Ghouls (Vampires, Werewolves, Fae, Witches, Zombies, etc.)
Horror Comedy
Occult
Ghosts and Demons
Gothic
CRIME
Crime Drama
Crime Thriller
Paranormal Crime
Police Procedurals (Crime)
Noir
MYSTERY
Mystery Drama
Mystery Thriller
Who-Dun-It
Police Procedurals (Mystery)
Hardboiled PI
Espionage
Paranormal Mystery
ROMANCE
Romance Suspense
Contemporary Romance
Historical Romance
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Science Fiction Romance
CONTEMPORARY
Drama
Coming-of-Age
HISTORICAL
Alternate History
Alternate History (Fantasy)
Alternate History (Sci-Fi)
Historical Drama
Historical Western
Historical Epic
OTHER
Satire
Short Stories
Fairytales
Plays
For a lot of these I had difficulty narrowing it down into overarching types. Takes Sci-Fi for instance, there are a lot of specific troupes in the genre rather than genre defining words, so I had to create genres to fit those types. I used a few different sources to help me with creating these lists. (See below)
Do I think this is all the possible genres in the world? No. These are just the general categories I want to use for my rating system. If there are any you think I missed, comment below.
Genre Sources:
https://reference.yourdictionary.com/books-literature/different-types-of-books.html
Marlena Marie 