Genres

The Harris Literary Agency's 245 author listings in eight genre groups: mainstream, thriller, mystery, non-fiction, self-help, historical, young adult, SF.

• Mainstream & Literary Fiction87 cardsMainstream was the agency's largest and broadest category.
• Thrillers & Suspense62 cardsThrillers were the agency's second largest group, and the listings cover most of the sub-genres that sold in the late 1990s and 2000s: legal, medical, political, techno and supernatural.
• Mystery26 cardsThe mystery listings run from classic pastiche to hard-boiled and procedural.
• True Stories & Memoir24 cardsThe agency's non-fiction list leaned towards memoir and personal testimony.
• Self-Help19 cardsSelf-help had the most entries of any group on the agency's Published Works page.
• Historical Fiction8 cardsThe agency's historical fiction was a small group, eight listings captured between 1999 and 2008, but it ranged widely in period.
• Young Adult & Children11 cardsThe young readers' group mixes middle-grade fantasy, teenage realism and a couple of picture-book texts.
• Science Fiction & Fantasy8 cardsEight listings made up the agency's science fiction and fantasy category.