Browse by genre
The same writers, sorted by what they wrote: from poetry and drama to crime, horror and fantasy.
- Fantasy & science fiction 159 writers · 624 works Other worlds, future worlds and impossible ones: from Victorian scientific romance to modern fantasy. J. K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll…
- Horror & Gothic 76 writers · 197 works Ghosts, monsters, haunted houses and dread, from the first Gothic novels onwards. Charles Dickens, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë…
- Crime, mystery & spy 90 writers · 330 works Detectives, whodunits, thrillers and spies: a form the English made their own. Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, J. K. Rowling, G. K. Chesterton…
- Historical fiction 70 writers · 124 works Stories set in another age, from Walter Scott’s followers to today’s bestsellers. Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy…
- Romance 29 writers · 57 works Love, courtship and its obstacles, in the drawing room and beyond. Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Emily Brontë…
- Children’s & young adult 70 writers · 192 works Books for young readers, fairy tales and school stories. J. K. Rowling, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft…
- Poetry 392 writers · 137 works Poems, sonnets, ballads, odes, epics and hymns. Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, Lewis Carroll…
- Drama & theatre 162 writers · 120 works Tragedies, history plays, comedies of manners and everything written for the stage. William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Agatha Christie, J. K. Rowling…
- Comedy & satire 102 writers · 206 works Wit, parody, nonsense and the comic novel. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, J. K. Rowling…
- Essays & non-fiction 171 writers · 174 works Essays, criticism, travel, philosophy, history and journalism. Charles Dickens, J. K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells…
- Biography & memoir 53 writers · 61 works Lives told by others and by the people who lived them, plus diaries and letters. Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
- Adventure & war 50 writers · 100 works Sea stories, quests, survival and the literature of war. J. K. Rowling, H. G. Wells, Alfred Tennyson, Graham Greene…
- Novels & literary fiction 563 writers · 168 works The novel in all its shapes: social, psychological, domestic, comic or experimental, and the short story. Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, J. K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf…
Genres come from Wikidata and are grouped by InkDay. A writer is placed by the genres of their known works; when those are not recorded, by what they are described as (poet, playwright, novelist).