Action_Adventure (262)
Books to set the blood boiling, the heart racing.

Australia (63)new
My first category.

Biography (268)new
List of biographical and autobiographical works.

Canada (47)new
Works by authors from the world's second-largest country in terms of area (that's what the border crossing guy called it in the process of telling me I couldn't hitchhike from Tok Junction to Skagway via Whitehorse).

Classics (398)new
Works from the Ancient World.

Critics (183)new
Well, hey, I first started this site recalling rather well where Dante put the commentators. But then again, there's some value to the group.

Drama (139)
The play's the thing.

Elizabethans (75)
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.

Enlightenment Thinkers (57)
Kant, Hume, Descartes--OK, I should probably use something to break down the timeline further.

Esoteric (32)new
UFOs, aliens, Atlantis, Satanism, and, hopefully, texts I can point to references of in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (Not as easy as Name of the Rose, but I'll try).

Europa (63)new
Des Livres en Francais, Bücher auf Deutsch, Libros en espaņol, etc.

Fiction (1806)new
The sort of books that aren't true, in the strictest sense, but can hit higher realities on occasion.

Folklore (57)
Classics of a more humble origin; teaching tales passed down; the people's histories; and analysis of same.

For Girls and Boys (225)new
Fiction, history and other works for younger readers.
  Gothic Tales (426)new
Stories of the strange, the terrible, the macabre.

History (298)new
History works abound.

Modern Thinkers (149)new
Philosophy and social science from the last 150 years or so.

Mystery (358)new
Whodunnit? Where? When? Why?

Non Fiction (49)new
Hey, these types of books are the biggest sellers nowadays, and given my high-margin profit model that's already being reviewed in the major business schools, I figured I ought to join in the fray.

Orient Express (161)
Works composed in or related to the Middle East, Near East and Central Asia (as the region is variously called).

Poetry (424)new
Poems everyone. Me lads and lassies reckon themselves poets.

Political Science (75)
Things you have to read if, every night, you try to take over the world.

Pulp Fiction (418)new
In keeping with guidance I've received on copyright issues, be aware web-viewing public that there is no particular reason why a site like blackmask might have this category. There's also no reason why I might be bummed that the most nebulous Dashiell Hammett copyrights seem to be in the hands of Human Rights Watch. No reason whatsoever. I mean it.

Religion (81)new
Including the big books of western and eastern faith, as well as texts relating to them.

Satire (106)
It is unwise to tangle with a satirist. (Credit Matt Groening).

Science (30)
Texts relating the natural world, laws governing same, and discoveries removing aforesaid laws for their prior solidity.

Science Fiction (83)
One of the most popular genres--ebooks and otherwise.

Tops (8)
What everybody wants.

Western (87)
Novels and stories from that other big pulp fad.