Narrative Nonfiction Genre – What’s the best definition for the narrative genre? The narrative genre involves accounts of a sequence of connected events told through step-by-step, or scene-by-scene, narration. Books in the narrative genre can be somewhat folklore-ish in nature, as they are often stories passed down from generation to generation as moral lessons through past events. Narrative genre books are historical accounts, or records, of past experiences passed on to other people in a “storytelling” type manner.
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Narrative Nonfiction Genre – Examples
Review this list of popular examples to help you get a better understanding of the narrative nonfiction genre.
1. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
2. Bunnicula by James Howe
3. Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard
4. Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway
5. Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Luc Herman
6. Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes
7. Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
8. Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
9. Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen
10. Narrativity by Philip J. M. Sturgess
11. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
12. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
13. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
14. Roam: A Novel with Music by Alan Lazar
15. Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama by Pauline Kiernan
16. Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
17. The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
18. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative by David Herman
19. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott
20. The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
21. The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
22. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
23. The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
24. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
25. Writing Mysteries by Sue Grafton
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Narrative Nonfiction Genre – Related Book Genres
* Creative Nonfiction Definition
* General Nonfiction Book Genre
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