Oh hello, how are you? I’m Niharika and back with a new lesson. Well, I am a total
book worm, I love reading. Now of course reading gives you immense knowledge and intelligence.
So I really thank people, who write books, because I love reading. Now whether or not
you are a book lover. It is always important to know that books have different categories.
So especially when you talk about books in English, it’s a great way to practice the
language. So if you wanna talk about books, you need to know that books fall into different
categories and there are different genre of books available in the market. So that’s
what we are gonna learn in today’s lesson. So let’s get started.
Now the best way to categorize books is Fiction and Nonfiction,
so these are the two main categories of books.
So there are sub types or genre of books, but we will get to that later. First let’s
understand what are fiction books and nonfiction books. Now fiction is literature based on
imagination. So writers imagine and end up writing stories, they elaborate stories and
all these stories are absolutely fake and they are not about real people or real events.
So its literature based on imagination. On the other hand nonfiction books, now nonfiction
books are books based on real events, real happenings and on real people. For example,
Travel books or Autobiographies. Now all these books are about real things. So nonfiction
books are books based on real facts. So when you talk about books or if you go to a book
store or you’re buying books online, the very first thing that you need to know is
the categories of the books that you’re looking at, whether its fiction or nonfiction
books. Now let’s understand what are Paperback books or what are EBooks? So first we are
gonna understand the paperback books. Now paperback is actually a physical book, so
if you go to a book store, then what you’re gonna find is a paperback book. So these are
printed books that you can physically hold it. Whereas an EBook is a digital book, so
it’s an electronic book or it’s a digital book that you can download it or buy it and
read it either on your computer, on your phone or on your tablet, so these days eBooks are
extremely popular. If you end up buying books online, of course there are gonna be types,
where you will end up looking at books, whether its fiction or nonfiction and then you’re
gonna have an option of buying either paperback book or eBook. So eBooks are digital books.
The next important thing that one should know, when we are learning or talking about books
is the ISBN number, so what exactly is this? Well, ISBN stands for International Standard
Book Number, which is a unique code that is allotted to the publishers. Now how do you
use this code? Like for example, you are shopping online and you end up going on amazon.com
and you are looking for a particular book, which is out of stock. Now it’s gonna be
easier for you to find this book, if you end up going on a different website, like maybe
ebay.com and you enter this code and yes, there you find your book. So ISBN number really
helps you to find your book. So now let’s have a look at different genre of books. The
very first type of book that I have here is Autobiography. So what is an Autobiography?
Well, how you read the autobiography of Steve jobs. Now autobiography is a person’s history,
all the events, all that a person has gone through and the way that person has lived
his or her life is written down in a book. So an autobiography is a history of a person’s
life. So now this type of book would fall into nonfiction, because everything in this
book is based on real facts. So that’s an autobiography for you. Another one that I
have for you is Series, book series. Now what are book series? Well, do you like reading
Harry potter? Yes harry potter is book series. It is sequence of books, that is more like
a continuation, you know there are several books of harry potter or there are so many
other stories that is like in continuation and its sequenced with the same kind of characteristics,
so that are series of books or book series. Now there we go, the next one is an encyclopedia.
Ooh encyclopedia gives you immense knowledge, encyclopedia is arranged in alphabetical order
and encyclopedia gives you all the information and all the knowledge of different subjects.
So anything that you want to look at or read about, be the bird, be it science, be it planets,
all this information is available on encyclopedia. There are series of encyclopedias, which are
available as a paperback as well as online, so it gives you a lot of information. So its
information on various subjects. Now let’s have a look at another type of book that is
available in the market, which is Thriller or Mystery. Well, that’s my favorite, now
these books fall under the fiction category, because they are all based on imagination,
but thrillers and mystery, like writers like Dan Brown or Agatha Kristy, they are the most
popular writers or thriller or mystery writers, who love writing about crime and about murder
and there’s like so much excitement when you read these books. There’s a lot of suspense
and you just want to know that what’s gonna happen. Like one of my favorite Gone girl,
Wow! That was an amazing thriller book that I read, so yes authors like Dan Brown and
Agatha Kristy they are the authors who write thriller or mystery books. So thriller or
mystery books are all about crime, suspense or murder and they are quite interesting.
The next one, romance. Well, how can we ever forget Mils and Boon. Romance or romantic
novels, these are books based on relationships and the main focus is on love. So love between
two people or three people doesn’t matter, so romance or romantic novels are books focused
on relationships and they are really nice to read, because they are very light and people
really enjoy reading these books, like Pride and Prejudice, like Mils and Boons or love
stories. So they are just so amazing stories to read about, so that’s one of the genre
of books. Another one for you is Satire. Well, satire books are these witty humor about foolish
people. So it just attacks the foolishness of human beings through sarcasm, humor or
wittiness. So they are sarcastic humor books. Let’s have a look at another one that’s
Cook books. If you like cooking, I’m sure, I’m gonna spot you at the book store, looking
for cook books, because cook books there are variety of cook books, where different recipes
from different places of the world are mentioned, so if you wanna learn something new, then
yes you will end up buying a cook book. So cook book is where you get to read different
recipes. Now another type of books that are available in the market are Children books.
Now children books are fairy tales, not just fairy tales, but these days we have so many
other books, because children are so smart and it’s important for them to get into
reading. So people if you have children then go ahead, buy children books, because they
are interesting, they are colorful, they have these colorful images in the book and they
are fun to read especially for kids. Then we have Dictionary, the most important thing,
I have an application in my phone a dictionary application, so I would always go ahead and
check for meanings. So if I am a little confused what a word really means, it means that I
am gonna have a look at the dictionary. So again we have physical dictionaries and we
also have E-dictionaries and dictionaries are the books that have meanings of several
words. And then we have Anthology. Well, anthology are short pieces of literature like poems
or short stories or if you are into Shakespeare, then yes Shakespeare stories are anthologies.
So its literature into pieces, so like poems and drama, plays and short stories, this all
falls into this type of category. That’s anthology. And then the last one that I have
over here is History. Well, history books like the history of Japan, history of United
States of America, history of India. So history books are all about the past events. It has
all the traces of past events and are extremely informative. So the people who love to dig
into the history of different countries, different places, different people. Then they end up
buying these type of books. Alright so these are the most popular and the most common genre
of books that are available in the market. So be it at a book store or be it online,
this is what you will find and you can talk about, but there are several others as well.
So keep reading and keep gaining all the knowledge and intelligence that you can and I’ll be
back with a new lesson. Till then you take care.