Types of Story and Novel
| adventure story |
Aga saga |
| allegory |
antinovel |
| autobiography |
bedtime story |
| Bildungsroman |
black comedy |
| blockbuster |
bodice-ripper |
| bonkbuster |
cliffhanger |
| comedy |
conte |
| crime story |
detective story/novel |
| dime novel |
epic |
| epistolary novel |
exemplum |
| fable |
fabliau |
| fairy story |
fairy tale |
| fantasy |
folk story |
| folk tale |
ghost story |
| gothic novel |
graphic novel |
| heartbreaker |
historical novel |
| horror story |
just-so story |
| legend |
Märchen |
| mystery |
myth |
| nancy story |
nouveau roman |
| novelette |
novelization |
| novella |
parable |
| photonovel |
picaresque novel |
| police procedural |
policier |
| roman-à-clef |
roman-à-thèse |
| romance |
roman expérimental |
| roman-fleuve |
roman noir |
| romantic novel |
saga |
| short story |
spine-chiller |
| stream of consciousness |
sword and sorcery |
| tearjerker |
techno-thriller |
| thriller |
true story |
| urban myth |
western |
| whodunnit |