Essay Sub-Genre
Allegory
Autobiography / Memoir
Bildungsroman / Coming-of-Age Story
Children’s Literature
Confessional Literature
Digital Media / Technology
Drama (Comedy)
Drama (Tragedy)
Epistolary Literature
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Film & Television
Flash Fiction
Folklore, Fables, or Myth
Frame Tales
Gothic
Graphic Novel
Horror Genre Fiction
Lyric Poetry
Magical Realism
Marriage Plot
Metafiction
Music or Song Lyrics
Stream of Conscious
Mystery
Narrative Poetry
Picaresque or Episodic
Nonfiction
Realism
Romance
Satire
Science Fiction
Speculative Fiction
Travelogues
Utopia / Dystopia
Young Adult Literature
Other
Prose Sub-Genre
Allegory
Autobiography / Memoir
Bildungsroman / Coming-of-Age Story
Drama (Comedy)
Drama (Tragedy)
Epistolary (journal entries, letters)
Fairy Tale / Myth
Fantasy
Flash Fiction
Horror / Mystery
Magical Realism
Metafiction
Stream of Conscious
Realism
Romance
Satire
Utopia / Dystopia
Young Adult Literature
Other
Author(s)
Allende, Isabel
Angelou, Maya
Atwood, Margaret
Austen, Jane
Baldwin, James
Baxter, Charles
Bechdel, Alison
Bergman, Megan Mayhew (Common Reader author)
Blake, William
Brontë Sisters
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chopin, Kate
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John
Douglass, Frederick
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Ellison, Ralph
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Frost, Robert
García Márquez, Gabriel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Homer
Ibsen, Henrik
Jackson, Shirley
James, Henry
James, Marlon
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Melville, Herman
Milton, John
Morrison, Toni
O’Connor, Flannery
Orwell, George
Keats, John
Poe, Edgar Allan
Rowling, J. K.
Rushdie, Salman
Satrapi, Marjane
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Steinbeck, John
Swift, Jonathan
Tan, Amy
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Trollope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
VanderMeer, Jeff
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wharton, Edith
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Woolf, Virginia
Other
Critical Methodology
Archetypal / Mythic Criticism
Autobiographical Criticism
Cultural Studies
Deconstruction / Post-Structuralism
Dialogic Criticism (Bakhtin)
Disability Studies
Ecocriticism / Ecofeminism
Feminist Criticism
Gender Studies
Linguistics
Marxist Criticism
New Critical / Formalism / Close Reading
New Historicism
Political Criticism
Postcolonialism
Psychoanalytic / Psychological Criticism
Queer Theory / LGBTQIA+ theory
Reader-Response Criticism
Structuralism/Semiotics
Trauma Theory
Other
Theme(s)
Abolition / Slavery
Addiction / Mental Health
Alienation
America / American Values
American Exceptionalism
Animals / Animal Rights
Apocalypse / End Times / Eschatology
Authenticity
Body Image / Beauty / Ugliness
Capitalism / Industry
Carnival(esque)
Childhood / Adolescence
Common Reader: Almost Famous Women
Convention Theme: Recreation (play, leisure, pastimes)
Convention Theme: Recreation (rebirth, renewal, transformation)
Death / Trauma / Grief
Deception
Disability
Diversity
Dreams / The Unconscious
Education / Learning
Family / Relations
Friendship / Enmity
Gender / Gender Equality
Holocaust / Genocide
Humor / Satire
Identity / Identity Politics
Imperialism / Colonization
LGBTQIA+
Liminal Moments / Liminal Spaces
Loneliness / Abandonment
Pedagogy
Romance / Love
Social Class
Symbols / Fetishized Objects / Iconography
Theology / Theism / Atheism
Utopia / Dystopia
Virtues / Vices
Voyages / Questing
War / Veterans
Other
Prose Sub-Genre
Allegory
Autobiography / Memoir
Bildungsroman / Coming-of-Age Story
Drama (Comedy)
Drama (Tragedy)
Epistolary (journal entries, letters)
Fairy Tale / Myth
Fantasy
Flash Fiction
Horror / Mystery
Magical Realism
Metafiction
Stream of Conscious
Realism
Romance
Satire
Utopia / Dystopia
Young Adult Literature
Other
Theme(s)
Addiction / Mental Health
Alienation
Animals / Animal Rights
Apocalypse / End Times / Eschatology
Authenticity
Body Image / Beauty / Ugliness
Career / Work
Childhood / Adolescence
Common Reader: Almost Famous Women
Convention Theme: Recreation (play, leisure, pastimes)
Convention Theme: Recreation (rebirth, renewal, transformation)
Death / Trauma / Grief
Deception
Disability
Diversity
Dreams / The Unconscious
Education / Learning
Family / Relations
Friendship / Enmity
Gender / Gender Equality
Humor / Satire
Identity / Ethnicity
LGBTQIA+
Loneliness / Abandonment
Nationality / Patriotism
Romance / Love
Social Class
Theology / Theism / Atheism
Utopia / Dystopia
Virtues / Vices
Voyages / Questing
Other