Here you will get to know about books based on their size, appearance/format, and Genre. This article will help you get a clear idea about the types and genres of books.
This is the simplest way to understand about types of books. This is a vast topic so once you start reading books you’ll start to understand all these types/genres more precisely.
Books According to Size
• Short Story– As the name says it has a short story. The book can also be thick as it may have collection of different short stories or one short story.
• Novels– They have a much longer and more detailed story. They are mostly more than 150 pages Or more than 60k/ 70k words.
• Novelas– They are longer than short stories but smaller than Novels. They are mostly less than 150 pages Or around 30k/ 50k words.
Books On The Basis Of Appearance/ Format
• Soft Cover/ Paperback/ Softback– It is a type of book whose cover is made of thick paper. You can easily bend Softcover.
• Hardcover/ Hardback – The cover is made with cardboard covered with cloth, plastic, or leather. You can’t bend them as they are made of hardboard. They are more expensive than books with a soft cover.
• E-books– Books that you read on Kindle or Laptop, Phone, Tablet, or IPad.
• Audiobook– In Audiobooks, a person or a narrator reads out the story loud and you just have to listen to them.
What are Book Genres?
Every work of literature is divided into genres. They are categorized by their style, tone, target audience, time period, and various other factors.
All these are the factors that differentiate fiction and nonfiction. Which are also divided into genres and sub-genre.
Which Genre Is The Best To Start With?
Everyone has their preferences when it comes to genres or subgenres. There is no such thing as a bad or good genre. It’s just the content that you come across.
You may not like a particular genre when you first read it because of various reasons but that doesn’t mean that you’ll never like that genre in the future.
Keep exploring and experimenting with different book genres. At first, you can start with your most preferred movie genre that you think you’ll like the reading story which comes in that same genre. Every genre has different things to offer.
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Whenever someone starts or wants to start reading books they get a big question “Which book I should start with?” or “what type of book I’ll like?”. This is the case with all the readers, especially with new ones. There are so many genres and categories that people often get confused. Continue Reading…
