Buchgenres Kompakt

Buchgenres kompakt is a reference handbook by Dr. Anette Huesmann covering the landscape of book genres, from "Actionthriller" to "Zeitgeschehen" (contemporary history). The book describes 98 genres and subgenres in detail, including their origins and representative examples, and covers a further 80 genres and subgenres in shorter keyword entries, alongside roughly 198 additional synonyms and an index of around 400 genre and subgenre terms.

Written for authors, self-publishers, booksellers, publishers, librarians, and general readers, the handbook is a practical classification tool rather than a narrative work -- intended to help writers position their own manuscripts and help book professionals talk about fiction and non-fiction categories with more precision.