No wrong answer, but I’m asking seriously.
Fiction.
My book store would not have a lot of sections.
To me this is the correct answer.
I was rather annoyed not long ago at a second hand bookstore that it was placed in fantasy. So annoyed I made this post to see if others would give this answer and they did, so I guess some people see this classic work of fiction as fantasy. I don’t agree with them, but I guess I can’t really say they’re wrong.
Still, it annoys me.
I remember going to the library when I was 10 and asking the librarian to help me find a book that was similar to the Redwall series. She cheerfully handed me Watership Down and told me it was very similar because it had anthropomorphic animals in it.
It’s like going to Walmart and saying you like Nerf and they suggest a glock.Classics
Horror
Certainly traumatised me as a child.
Young Adult>Classic>Shelf A
A lot of people give this book and it’s cartoon shit because they were exposed too young, but it’s message is something that a lot of other books don’t offer so I really think it should be available. Ideally, ages 12-17 would be able to handle the content and genuinely digest the meaning while still being young enough for it to have a lasting impact on their development.
Also it would be a library, not a bookstore.
Children’s Horror
A growing section titled “no you don’t want this for your young child despite what you think” and for me that also has Maus in there (“it’s a graphic novel so it must be fine for kids!”)
Current affairs?
Psychological horror, if I remember my childhood correctly.
