Genre Labels: What Makes a Book More Thriller Than Sci-Fi? | CrimeReads

You could argue - and many people do - that these genre divisions are, in some sense, imaginary. Writers write books; marketing departments at publishers come up with the most cunning angle to sell them. Or so the saying goes. Like almost any other attempt at categorizing broad or varied groups, genre boxes are clumsy labels that can never quite encapsulate all the fabulous tendrils of creativity. They're for convenience, marketing, signaling, nothing more - right?