Table 1 Examples of books in each genre corpus (full list in Supplementary materials).
From: Computational thematics: comparing algorithms for clustering the genres of literary fiction
Genre | Examples |
|---|---|
Detective fiction | Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, 1951 Agatha Christie, At Bertram’s Hotel, 1965 Colin Dexter, Last Bus to Woodstock, 1975 Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew, 1982 Sue Grafton, M is for Malice, 1996 |
Fantasy fiction | J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer, 1965 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan, 1970 Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic, 1983 J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1997 |
Romance fiction | Barbara Cartland, Love is the Enemy, 1952 Jackie Collins, The World is Full of Married Men, 1968 Gordon Merrick, The Lord Won’t Mind, 1970 Danielle Steel, A Perfect Stranger, 1981 Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991 |
Science fiction | Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 Frank Herbert, Children of Dune, 1976 C. J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station, 1981 Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, 1992 |
