2009 "Genre of the Month" Poll

[Niamh]

Are detective fiction and crime fiction really two seperate genre ? :

and Thriller. That also comes under crime fiction

Anyway I vote Erotica!! WoooOOOo Go Erotica

(not sure i know any Erotica books but the discussions should be great!)

theres The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N.Roquelaure (aka Anne Rice)

[_Shannon_]

I think detective fiction and crime fiction are diffreent...detective fition could be Hammet, Chandler, or Father BRown mysteries, or Agatha Chrisitie, or Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle.

Crime Fiction- could be In Cold Blood (though technically suspended between fiction and non-fiction), or Crime and Punishment, or To Kill A Mockingbird, or 12 Angry Men, or Intruder in the Dust, Sanctuary, American Psycho, Novels by James M. Cain, or Jim Thompson ...

There's lots of crime fiction, which doesn't involve detectives at all.

[JBI]

I'm surprised the genre of derivative fiction isn't up there, after all, it seems the most popular of all genres...

Just kidding.

[caddy_caddy]

I voted for counter-culture literature

[Niamh]

I think detective fiction and crime fiction are diffreent...detective fition could be Hammet, Chandler, or Father BRown mysteries, or Agatha Chrisitie, or Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle.

Crime Fiction- could be In Cold Blood (though technically suspended between fiction and non-fiction), or Crime and Punishment, or To Kill A Mockingbird, or 12 Angry Men, or Intruder in the Dust, Sanctuary, American Psycho, Novels by James M. Cain, or Jim Thompson ...

There's lots of crime fiction, which doesn't involve detectives at all.

Yes but detectives generally solve crimes dont they, which makes it a sub-genre catagory of crime fiction, same as Thriller. The only detective series i've never seen in a Crime Fiction section is No.1 Ladies Detective agency series, for obvious reasons too.

[DapperDrake]

Niamh I agree, Detective and Thriller are clearly sub-genre of Crime, but to be fair they are not the only sub-genre up there. I would say that Fairytale fantasy, Urban fantasy, and Epic fantasy are all sub-genre of Fantasy.

It would of been nice if the genre in the poll were all distinct, to avoid having months reading of similar material, but I guess this is what was voted for so there you have it.

[Niamh]

No i think is good that we have sub genres in the listing. It would be nice though if there was at least one fantasy genre up there in the top 12 though.
So keep voting everyone!!!!

[DapperDrake]

If I'd of realised you could vote for more than one genre I would of thrown some votes in the way of the Fantasy genre, my fault for not reading the instructions fully!

[Scheherazade]

All the genres included in the poll have been nominated by our members so...

The results so far:


Gothic 16

Crime fiction 16

Historical fiction 15

Detective fiction 14

War novel 11

Counter-culture Literature 11

Thriller 11

Philosophical Novel 11

Horror 10

Young adult 10

Comic novel 9

Novel of Manners 9
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Fairytale fantasy 8

Epic fantasies 7

Morality Plays 7

Sci-fi 6

Fantasy 6

Erotica 5

Urban fantasy 5

Chick-lit 5

New Weird 3

[Nightshade]

Petition to knock out horror and war stories and thriller (because detective and crime and thriller are all sort of the same when you think about it ) in favour of some of the fantasy!!

[Scheherazade]

to knock out horror and war stories and thriller

And that is your fantasy?

[Nightshade]

And that is your fantasy?

any kind really or scifi, !!

[DapperDrake]

I'm not too worried, I like eight of the winning 12 genre so far so thats not bad going really. Is a little bit of a shame there is no fantasy or sci-fi up there at all, seems incomplete, but its not a big deal.
After all, I'm sure I can find some sci-fi / crime hybrid that might qualify as "crime", or maybe a fantasy / detective novel

[applepie]

Petition to knock out horror and war stories and thriller (because detective and crime and thriller are all sort of the same when you think about it ) in favour of some of the fantasy!!

Just for the record, when I added thriller I wasn't thinking either of the other two. I was thinking more along the lines of things like Frankenstein, Dracula, Pet Cemetary, IT, and other books similar. Thriller I guess in the spooky Michael Jackson music video kind of way In seriousness, though, let's see some fantasy up in the top too. What is the fun if we read nothing but a bunch of similar generes?

[DapperDrake]

Well I'd say what you're describing is Gothic or horror rather than thriller, though of course there are a lot of horror-thrillers around. A thriller's main characteristic is suspense, so cliffhanger type books would qualify.