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A novel is about 40,000 words or more. Novels arose around the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as prose romance and adventure tales. Around this time, techniques of history, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, and biography were adopted.

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This genre focuses on the relationship and central love story between characters. It usually has an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. There can be several kinds of romance novels: mystery, historical, or erotica. Jennifer Crusie says that "The romance novel is based on the idea of an innate emotional justice in the universe.The lovers who risk and struggle for each other and their relationship are rewarded with emotional justice, unconditional love in an emotionally safe world.” Romance novels typically end in a "happy" ending, but not everyone has the same definition of a happy ending.

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Some famous authors include Ernest Hemingway, Stephan King, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Maya Angelou, and Mark Twain.

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According to encyclopedia Britannica these 12 novels are the greatest novels of all time.

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Anna Karenina

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Some novels that are considered romance novels include Outlander, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Love Story.

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All Romance novels typically have these elements according to Jax Hunter

A hero and a heroine

A problem that threatens to keep them apart

A realization that this is “the one” and the struggle to make the relationship work

A commitment - whether that’s marriage or simply the implication of marriage - at the end.

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Hunter, Jax, et al. “What Makes a Romance Novel a Romance Novel.” Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, 1 Oct. 2016, rmfw.org/what-makes-a-romance-novel-a-romance-novel/.

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A novella is a work of fiction that is 17,000- 40,000 words. It was popular during 1850 - 1950 because it can be more controlled than a long novel, but still capture the elements of character. Novellas are also known as long short stories or short novels. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and The Metamorphosis by Kafka are some examples of novellas. It is difficult to get novellas published because of how awkward the length is. Novellas focus on one characters personal and emotional development rather than any large scale issues. Novellas are typically written with a satirical, moral, or educational purpose. They can depict the story of a single character or they can involve multiple characters. Novellas are not typically read in one-sitting like short stories, but they are not divided into chapters like novels.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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The Great Gatsby

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In mystery novels, the characters solve crimes or puzzles. It is also called crime fiction or detective fiction.

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Examples include: Murder on the Orient Express, The Woman in White, The Da Vinci Code, and Sherlock Holmes.

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Hard Boiled - mysteries that are gritty and violent.

Soft boiled - mysteries that are like hard boiled, but more optimistic and humorous and less gory.

Cozy mysteries that are not violent and typically have amateur crime solvers working in small towns.

Police Procedural - mysteries that follow a professional detective or police officer

Locked Room - mysteries that include crimes that seem to have been impossible to have been committed.

Thriller - mysteries where the protagonist is put up against extraordinary odds. It keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

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According to instructor Bryanna Liccardi, mystery follows these set of rules:

A realistic, yet suspenseful plot with a lot of twists

A shocking, yet realistic crime

Foreshadowing evidence

False leads

A crime solver, aka the protagonist or detective

An unexpected villain, criminal, or culprit

A last-minute resolution to the plot

An expectation that the situation will work itself out

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Study.com, Study.com, study.com/academy/lesson/mystery-fiction-definition-books-authors.html.

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Dystopia is my favorite genre. Oftentimes dystopia is also considered science fiction. The word dystopia comes from the word utopia, which means perfect, as in a perfect society. Dystopia means the opposite. The society is flawed, corrupt, and falling apart. Which makes for an excellent plot.

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There are a lot of examples for this genre. Ramyani Das says that the most famous novel under this genre is George Orwell's 1984. Other examples that I have read/seen include Star Wars, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver, The Maze Runner, Matched, The Missing series. Now that I list these books out, it appears to me that dystopia is a popular genre with teenagers.

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1984 is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One, a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation.

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A short story is a work that is anywhere between 1000 and 20,000 words. It is intended to be read in a single sitting. It was developed in the mid-nineteenth century because of the growing popularity of magazines. Short stories typically convey a theme or central message more strongly than a novel. In Alex Keegan's article titled "What IS a Short Story" he says "the perfect short story is written with a poet's feel for language, with a poet's precision, and that the shape and sounds and rhythms of the words are more commonly part of the work's effect than is usually seen in the novel" (Keegan)

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I have read a variety of short stories in my past such as The Tell Tale Heart, The Lottery, The Necklace, The Gift of the Magi, and The Bet,

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My favorite short story is "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. "Edgar Allen Poe wrote that the short-story should have a single and unique effect and that every word, every sentence should matter" (Keegan).

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The Tell Tale Heart - The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Google Search

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Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Greg Buzwell is Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives ... The Tell Tale Heart - The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe ( Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Kindle edition by Edgar Allan Poe. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

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Others include One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Passage to India, The Invisible man, Don Quixote, Beloved, Mrs. Dalloway, Things Fall Apart, Jane Eyre, and The Color Purple.

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Hogeback, Jonathan. “12 Novels Considered the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written.’” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written.

Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2017.

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“Differences Between a Short Story, Novelette, Novella, &amp; a Novel.” Owlcation, Owlcation, owlcation.com/humanities/Difference-Between-A-Short-Story-Novelette-Novella-And-A-Novel.

Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2017.

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Das, Ramyani. “What is a dystopian novel?” Quora, 15 April 2018 https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-dystopian-novel

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“What IS a Short-Story?” Writers Write, www.writerswrite.com/journal/sep99/what-is-a-short-story-9996.

Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2017.