The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

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This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres.

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Other editions

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  The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction: Third Edition

  • 2018-12-12
  • 344 pages
  • Ebook
  • American Library Association
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  The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

  • 2009
  • 387 pages
  • Ebook
  • American Library Association
• 

  The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

  • 2001
  • 460 pages
  • Ebook
  • American Library Association

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