excerpt anthology {analect}.
previously-published-works collection {anthology}|.
historical and/or rare documents {archive}|.
narrative history {chronicle}.
Notebooks {commonplace book} can contain photographs and other personal-interest items.
works collection {compendium}|.
works collection {compilation}.
Books {diary} can describe writer's days.
short abridgement {digest}.
Books {emblem book} can explain drawings.
elementary-student textbook or introductory book {primer, book}.
film text {screenplay}.
Documentaries {semidocumentary} can include fictional or imagined historical events.
Historical, literary, or religious works {source book} can be for reference.
three related works {trilogy}.
ideal-society description {utopia}.
Books {bestiary} can be about animals, illustrating moral principles.
Novels {bilddungsroman} {Erziehungsroman} can be about main-character maturation.
Novels {epistolary novel} can be letters.
Biographies {fictional biography} can be plausible life recreations.
Novels {Gothic novel} can use horror.
Novels {historical novel} can be about historical people and actual settings.
western drama {horse opera}.
Novels {kunstlerroman} can be about artist development.
Fiction {novel} can have more than 200 pages, with developed plot and fully described characters.
Short novels {novelette} can have 50 to 100 pages.
During late Middle Ages and Renaissance, people wrote down epic poems about heroes or lovers of European nations, far away lands, or fantasy lands in prose {novella} in the national language. Short novel can have 100 to 200 pages.
Novels {picaresque novel} can involve nice rogues who escape dull middle-class life in exciting episodes. This novel form started in 16th century Spain as chivalry burlesques.
sensational and commercial book {potboiler}.
Novels {psychological novel} can explore hero mental patterns, as in Dostoevski's works.
Novels {roman a clef} can be about contemporary figures but with names changed.
During and after Renaissance, prose stories {romance} with heroic and romantic themes had contemporary characters, who underwent character development.
long narrative {saga}.
future story {science fiction}.
annual fact book {almanac}|.
society-member reports {annals}.
map book {atlas, book}|.
People can write biographies {autobiography}| about selves.
Nonfiction can be life stories {biography}|.
address book {black book}.
prayer and hymn book {breviary}.
collection contents or index {catalog}.
library-collection description {conspectus}.
encyclopedia {cyclopedia}.
alphabetical names, telephone numbers, and/or addresses {directory, book}.
many alphabetical articles {encyclopedia}|.
Biographies {hagiography} can be about saints.
account book {ledger}.
event record {log, record}.
Nonfiction can recount {memoir}| writer's life in a historical period.
prayer and response book {missal}.
law or legal-code digest {pandect}.
drug, preparation, and dosage list {pharmacopoeia}.
synonym book {thesaurus}|.
long nonfiction book {tome}.
Nonfiction books or films {travelogue} can be about journeys.
Books {treatise} can contain complete subject knowledge.
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