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Realistic Fiction

I was surprised to see Fangirl labelled as Realistic Fiction by the library. It's the first time I've seen a book tagged that way and I wasn't really aware that it was its own genre. Is this a new thing? Or just something that I was unaware of? And what exactly is 'Realistic Fiction'? It seems pretty broad.
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  • I had line breaks in there.  I don't know what happened.  
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  • It just means based in the real world - no magical realism, sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, time travel, etc. Real characters in the real world.
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  • It just means based in the real world - no magical realism, sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, time travel, etc. Real characters in the real world.
    Hmm... I thought that's what regular fiction or contemporary fiction was.  What's the difference between contemporary fiction and realistic fiction?


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  • I've never heard of this category either but I think it makes total sense.  Saying you like "fiction" is just so broad.

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  • I've never heard of this category either but I think it makes total sense.  Saying you like "fiction" is just so broad.
    This is a good point.  I guess when I hear "contemporary fiction" I think "realistic fiction" rather than the other sub-genres like fantasy, sci-fi, etc.  Maybe realistic fiction will be replacing the term contemporary fiction?  Or... maybe it's going to encompass works that aren't exactly contemporary, but also aren't really historical.  Like stories set in the 80s and 90s?  

    But then there would probably be contemporary realistic fiction vs. realistic fiction.  

    I need to look into this further.  Maybe someone has broken it down exactly what it is.  I mean, I know what realistic fiction is within the fiction genre, just not where exactly it fits in as an actual genre of its own :)
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  • Stefibeth said: Young_Love said: It just means based in the real world - no magical realism, sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, time travel, etc. Real characters in the real world.
    Hmm... I thought that's what regular fiction or contemporary fiction was.  What's the difference between contemporary fiction and realistic fiction?


    Contemporary means taking place in the time period in which it was written...not historical fiction. Technically,
    Eleanor & Park is historical fiction, not contemporary fiction, because it takes place in the past. But it is realistic fiction. 
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