GenreCAT 2021

Listing:

January Non Fiction Tess_W
February Memoirs/biography clue
March Action & Adventure (Military/spy/war/Westerns/thrillers etc.) Leslie.98
April Literary Fiction RidgewayGirl
May Short stories/essays sallylou61
June Historical fiction SilverWolf28
July Romance DeltaQueen50
August Poetry/drama/graphic novels VioletBramble
September YA/children LadyoftheLodge
October Horror/supernatural LibraryCin
November SFF MissWatson
December Mysteries rabbitprincess

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Off the top of my head: non-fiction, plays (but could combine that with poetry), horror, and young adult.

I am looking forward to this Cat. You could add Horror and YA/Children's Literature as genres and maybe add Plays to the poetry to make it's appeal a little broader.

ETA: Looks like Tess and I had some of the same ideas. :)

I'm trying to think how military/spy could be changed. Thriller could be a category and that would cover books with spies and thrillers that don't. Then again, is thriller covered by mystery?

Tess, for YA I think several of the topics could be read as YA books.
Fantasy could be a genre.

>5 clue: I was basically thinking war stories for military/spy

I will like short stories to be included -- in fact when considering genres and voting for it, I was definitely thinking of short stories as a genre.

>7 sallylou61: Oh, I really like the idea of adding short stories/novellas as a topic.

Could short stories be combined with poetry and drama?

Are short stories a genre in themselves? Wouldn't a short story be SFF, mystery, literary fiction or whatever?

>10 Robertgreaves: Short stories are listed as a genre in:
(1) The pictured categories of literary genres when searching under or "literary genres" in google . -- this listing of genres also includes such genres as nonfiction, essays, poetry, drama, etc.
You have already poetry/drama as genres -- short stories would be no different.

(2) 21 of the most popular book genres from Oprah magazine: https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a29576863/types-of-book-genres/

>11 sallylou61: I tend to think of genres as where books will be shelved in a bookshop or library, but OK I will combine short stories with essays as a possibility.

I notice that the list in the Oprah magazine puts mystery/crime together and then has thriller/suspense as a separate genre - should we do the same or is mystery covering all of this?

>13 DeltaQueen50: ATM I'm leaning towards including thrillers/suspense in Action & Adventure. As it is we have 13 genres so far, so either we do some judicious combining or we do first come, first served and if nobody chooses to host a genre, it gets dropped.

If you are wanting to combine, how about biography/memoirs combined with non-fiction? That could also include travelogues.

>14 Robertgreaves: I think you could also combine Westerns with Adventure.

Horror/thriller should be separate, imo.

>14 Robertgreaves: I think the combination in Action/Adventure is fine and Westerns could fit in historical fiction. Thanks for doing the organizing Robert.

>1 Robertgreaves: I can help you set up the wiki. Please let me know if you would like my assistance.

OK, I've combined Westerns explicitly with Action & Adventure. Any Westerns that don't fit there can go into historical fiction. We have 12 genres. So, please put in your bids for genres and months.

>19 LadyoftheLodge: Thanks, LadyoftheLodge

>20 Robertgreaves: I will take YA/Children for October, please.

There are a bunch I'd be happy to host, but I think I'll go for Historical Fiction. How about in June?

And someone mentioned (and I agree) that Thrillers could (I would assume this to be the case, anyway) be combined with Mystery.

So, Mystery/Thriller?

>24 LibraryCin: I think thrillers are a grey area which could come under mystery or action & adventure depending on how physical or psychological they are. I have made this explicit, but host's/reader's choice.

I can do Memoirs/Biography in February.

I would like to do Short stories/Essays in either May or July

I will take Romance in July.

I'd be willing to do either Poetry & Plays or Action & Adventure in March. I am guessing that Poetry/Drama/Graphic Novels will be less in demand so I will select that as my first choice but am willing to swap if anyone else would like to do that one.

Non-fiction in January, please and thank you.

>29 leslie.98: I can do Poetry, Plays, and graphic novels in August if you want Action and Adventure.

>21 Robertgreaves: I posted a wiki "how to" in your comments on your profile page. Let me know if you still have questions.

>1 Robertgreaves:. Thanks so much for organizing this challenge. If you are not going to post the months, names, and topics chosen in the first message of the thread, would you mind putting a link in it to that posting: https://www.librarything.com/topic/326130#7310676

That would make it much easier to find.

Thanks.

>33 sallylou61: done

We still need hosts for mysteries, SFF, Literary Fiction, and Horror/Supernatural.

>34 Robertgreaves: Cannot see who’s doing what in first post.

Is there a list of who's hosting what when? I'll take Literary Fiction, if it's still available and depending on the month.

>33 sallylou61:, >34 Robertgreaves:. I meant for you to keep the list in message 20 and make a link to it from message 1. Since you deleted the list in 20 instead, would you please arrange the months chronologically in message 1 and list the topic and who is doing it as you used to have in message 20? I know that there is a lot to learn in being a CAT coordinator.

Thanks.

>35 pamelad: >37 sallylou61: I added it to message 1 but it looks like it didn't take for some reason. I should have just left it as it was and stuck to my original plan of moving the list when it was full. Anyway I am work now so I will have to do it later.

January Non Fiction Tess_W
February Memoirs/biography clue
March Action & Adventure (Military/spy/war/Westerns/thrillers etc.) Leslie.98
April Literary Fiction RidgewayGirl
May Short stories/essays sallylou61
June Historical fiction LibraryCin
July Romance DeltaQueen50
August Poetry/drama/graphic novels VioletBramble
September
October YA/children LadyoftheLodge
November
December

Mysteries (inc. thrillers/suspense) rabbitprincess

SFF
Horror/supernatural

>38 Robertgreaves: to give you a head start.

I'll take April for Literary Fiction.

>38 Robertgreaves: I've found posting a bit fussy over the past day or so, but I thought it was just my cantankerous mouse acting up and not clicking the Post message button properly. (It seems to accept clicks only on a small part of the mouse button.)

I'd be happy to tackle mysteries, any month is fine with me!

>39 pamelad:
Thank you, Pamelad
xxx

I could do SFF in November.

Anybody for Horror/Supernatural in either September or December?

It looks like the list at >1 Robertgreaves: is showing up now!

We still have three months open for hosts in MysteryKIT, in case anyone is interested. You would be welcome.

>44 Robertgreaves: I'll do Horror/Supernatural in September.

>48 LibraryCin: And then I think that leaves mysteries for rabbitprincess in December!

>31 VioletBramble: I thought that I posted yesterday that your suggestion was fine with me but apparently not. In any case, I am happy with the list in >1 Robertgreaves:!

>49 christina_reads: Oh yay, that's perfect, because I can resurrect the Christmas Murder Mystery reading as part of that :D

>48 LibraryCin: I've put you down for Horror/Supernatural in September, but that means you are doing two months. Are you OK with that? If not, I could have a go at historical fiction

>52 Robertgreaves: I can take historical fiction.

>48 LibraryCin: >53 SilverWolf28: Any objections LibraryCin?

>54 Robertgreaves: Sure! Someone else can take historical fiction, then.

(I just might have a wackload of recommendations to add for that month! :-) )

For those hosting, can I ask that you include recomendations for novels that are considered classics, or have started the genre?

>56 Helenliz: I'll do my very best.

>56 Helenliz: Me, too. :)

>56 Helenliz: Yeppers!

>56 Helenliz: Good suggestion - I just hope that I will remember it when the time comes.

Wouldn't horror/supernatural fit better in October?

>56 Helenliz: Will have to give some thought as to how that will apply to literary fiction, but I'll do my best!

>61 cyderry: It would, but someone else already chose October before I took Horror/Supernatural. (I would have gone for October if it had still been available.)

>63 LibraryCin: Could also be paranormal,right? I do not read any horror, but paranormal fits.

>63 LibraryCin: >64 LadyoftheLodge: Would you like to swap months?

Works for me!

>64 LadyoftheLodge: Sure! If we're including supernatural in with it, personally I think of supernatural and paranormal as the same.

And I see >65 Robertgreaves: is ok with switching, so I am too. October for me, then, for Horror/Supernatural.

The wiki is now open for business: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/GenreCAT_2021

(grateful thanks to LadyoftheLodge)

>68 Robertgreaves: Aww! You are most welcome. Just paying it forward from the person who helped me last year.

>68 Robertgreaves: And the wiki link is now up on the main page!

The February thread is now up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/328764

March's thread is now up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/329889

April's thread is up! https://www.librarything.com/topic/330595

May's thread, Short Stories and/or Essays is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/331446#n7481226

Here's June's thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/332261

July's Thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/332937#n7529825

I received my copy of State of the Thing, the LibraryThing email newsletter today. It announced a new feature called GenreThing, which hosts might find useful. Here, for example, is the page for Romance.

>77 Robertgreaves: - I took a quick glance and I was surprised at how many books I have that fall into that genre. I got my SOTT, but haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I'll be interested in the GenreThing

I like the GenreThing and you can use it to access your books which is nice. You don't have to look through books and books to find yours.

August thread is up : here

October's thread is up...
https://www.librarything.com/topic/335227

(And oops! Looks like I accidentally posted a review here meant for July's thread. Sigh... I'll fix that!)

November thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/335971

Just posted a wall of text for December's GenreCAT theme of mysteries! https://www.librarything.com/topic/336735

Anyone setting up a GenreKIT for 2022?