The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

Wyatt, an author, editor, and readers' advisory columnist, and Saricks, a retired librarian, editor, and author, offer a guide to help librarians become familiar with fiction genres and provide readers' advisory services. They emphasize the connection between appeal aspects like pacing, characterization, storyline, frame/setting, tone, and language/style, to genre to broaden the classifications of books and encourage advisors to listen to readers' descriptions of the books they enjoy and suggest titles within a genre, as well as connections among genres. Chapters cover the broad categories of the adrenaline genre (adventure, thrillers, and suspense), intellect genres (psychological suspense, mystery, literary fiction, and science fiction), landscape genres (fantasy, westerns, and historical fiction), and emotion genres (relationship fiction, romance, and horror). Each chapter include the definition of the genre, its characteristics based on appeal, key authors, what fans expect to find, sure bets, trends, and books to expand readers' horizons in other genres, nonfiction, and media. This edition expands the role of appeal to go beyond genre. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)