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Middle Grade, YA, etc. not Genres: "Age range"/"Audience" Category
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lindseyinthelibraryJan 5, 2022
What are people's thoughts regarding YA, Middle Grade, Children's, (maybe more such as Graphic Novel) not necessarily being a genre but rather a type of book?
I'm probably overthinking it, but a genre to me would be the KIND of book. For example, YA is the kind of book and the genre is fantasy and mystery.
I'd prefer to have the KIND of book be separated in it's own chart, much like how fiction and nonfiction are their own things. If clicked on, maybe it could correspond with the genres of books read within each grade level.
Love to hear people's thoughts about this. Cheers!
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Definitely agree with this. If they're not separated, I think an option to filter these out from the genre stats would be useful too.
Thank you for the feedback, everyone. Right now we're using official publishing data, but that doesn't mean we can't change how our product works in the future.
Whilst I can see why they might be interpreted as such YA, Middle Grade, Children's, Comics and Graphic Novels are definitely not genres in my Librarian opinon. YA, Middle Grade, Children's are "audience" and Comics & Graphic Novels are more a..."format"? "medium"?
So on that note, I'd be all for Storygraph adding an "Audience" field (I'd go for that over "Age-range" since there's Adult and New Adult, which are intended for the same age range, I think?) to their book records though I don't know how that data would pull through from the databases they use.
And in the same vein, it'd be nice to see comic and graphic novels added as a format? Or perhaps even something additional such as "medium".
Another librarian here and I would LOVE this. I read a lot of graphic novels for both work and pleasure, but I hate how the “comics” genre is clogging my most read stats. It would be more useful for me to know the actual genres I read, and there are a variety of those in graphic novels — just as many as there are in “traditional” novels.
I work in a library so I generally think about how things are, shelved, who they are geared toward, etc. and then think about genre as a second component.