Keywords for searching Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

The Library of Congress Authorities Website lists the following keywords for fiction. These can be used when doing searches in your library catalog.

Adventure stories, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure fiction,
Swashbucklers, Thrillers.
Allegories, Allegory (Art), Exempla, Homiletical illustrations, Tales,
Fables, Parables.
Alternative histories (Fiction), Imaginary histories, (an alternative outcome of an historical event).
Bildungsromans, Apprenticeship novels, Coming-of-age novels, Entwicklungsromane ("novel of character development"), Erziehungrsromane
Biographical fiction, Biographic fiction, Biographical novels.
Chick lit
Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile stories, Children's literature,
Storytelling.
Christian fiction, Religious fiction.
Christmas stories. Christmas books, Christmas books.
Code and cipher stories, Cipher stories, Ciphers Fiction, Code stories,
Cryptogram stories, Cryptography Fiction.
College stories, University and colleges Fiction.
Confession stories, Confessional stories
Detective and mystery stories, Detective Fiction, Adventure stories,
Crime stories, Gentleman detective stories, Murder mysteries,
Mysteries, Mystery and detective stories, Mystery stories, P.I. stories,
Private detective stories, Private investigator stories, Who-done-it
stories, Who-done-its, Whodunit stories, Whodunits.
Diary fiction, Dagboksroman, Diary novel, Fictional journal, Journal novel, Novel as diary, Novel as journal, Diaries.
Diary fiction [proposed update]
Didactic fiction
Dime novels, Adventure stories, Penny dreadfuls.
Domestic fiction
Easter stories
Epistolary fiction, Novels in letters, Letters
Epistolary fiction [proposed update]
Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Sex Fiction.
Experimental fiction, Avant-garde fiction.
Fables, Didactic literature, Exempla, Homiletical illustrations, Legends, Literature, Tales, Allegories, Parables.
Fan fiction
Fantasy fiction, Fantastic fiction, Heroic fantasy (Fiction), Fantasy literature.
Feminist fiction
Feuilletons, Journalism, Newspapers, Serialized fiction.
Film novelizations, Motion picture novelizations, Novelizations.
Ghost stories, Ghosts Fiction, Horror tales.
Graphic novels, Comic book novels, Graphic albums, Graphic fiction, Graphic nonfiction, Graphic novellas, Comic books strips.
Hanukkah stories
Historical fiction
Horror tales
Humorous stories, Comic stories, Wit and humor.
Islamic stories, Stories, Islamic, Homiletical illustrations, Islamic.
Jesuit fiction
Legal stories, Law Fiction, Lawyers Fiction, Legal novels.
Legends, Martyrs--Legends; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Legends, Folk tales, Traditions, Urban legends, Exempla, Folk literature, Homiletical illustrations, Tales.
Love stories, Love Fiction, Romances (Love stories).
Martial arts fiction
Medical fiction, Hospital fiction, Hospitals Fiction, Medical care Fiction, Medicine Fiction.
Musical fiction, Musical novels.
Nature stories, Natural history Fiction, Nature Fiction.
New Age fiction
Noir fiction, Detective and mystery stories.
Nonfiction novel, Documentary story, Journalistic novel, New journalism, Reportage literature.
Novelle, Nouvelles, Novellas, Narrative poetry.
Novels in verse, Verse novels, Narrative poetry.
Occult fiction, Occult stories, Occultism Fiction, Paranormal fiction, Witchcraft Fiction, Spiritualism, Psychic phenomena, voodooism.
Oral interpretation of fiction, Fiction reading, Reading fiction aloud, Storytelling.
Pastoral fiction, Pastoral romances.
Picaresque literature, Picaresque novel, Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
Plot-your-own stories, Choose-your-own story plots, Making-choices stories, Multiple plot stories, Literary recreations.
Political fiction
Radio stories, Radio and literature, Radio programs, Radio scripts.
Railroad stories
Religious fiction
Romans à clef
Romanticism, Pseudo-romanticism, Aesthetics, Literary movements.
Science fiction, Science stories, Adventure stories, Literature and science, Future in literature.
Novelists
Serialized fiction
Short stories
Short story, Short stories -- History and criticism, Authorship.
Sports stories
Spy stories, Espionage Fiction, Espionage stories, Spies Fiction.
Stories in rhyme
Suspense fiction, Suspense tales, Tales Suspense, Thriller Fiction, Tales of suspense.
Three-decker novels, Three-volume novels.
War stories
Western stories, Fiction Western, Stories Western, West (U.S.) Fiction, Western fiction, Westerns, Adventure stories, American fiction, Short stories American.
Young adult fiction, Young adult literature.