What are all the types of genres for books?

Genres are kinds or sorts of books or literature. Most general division of works of fiction is their division into epic works (that is, mostly, prose - and epic poetry (long poems, e.g. the Iliad)), lyric works (poetry, e.g. love poems) and drama (plays for the theatre - they are now mostly written in prose but used to be written in various metrical poetic systems). Prose in itself is subdivided into genres. An example of a genre is a novel - a long story with a complicated plot (storyline) and many different characters. Novels can be classified into subgenres. thus, if a novel shows its main character through many stages of his or her life, most notably - a remarkable childhood that shows how he/she became what he/she is now, it is called by a German Word Bildungsroman or formation novel