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Just out of sheer curiosity, any contemporary literary genres/subgenres that lean more conservative?

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So first things first, I'm not a conservative myself. But no matter what you think or believe, I figured this was a useful question? Not too sure, but I'm hoping!

That said, I've been deep in the weeds of the lit scene for a while, and it seems in the genres I'm interested in, there will occasionally be folks pop up that are even more left than I am, which I find incredibly interesting. But I've grown very used to it, and I haven't really seen many in the other direction out in the open in the genres I read and write. So it does make me wonder out of weird curiosity if there are subgenres that skew slightly more conservative. When I've looked online, the answers seemed to be Lord of the Rings and Moby-Dick. I'm not surprised that some classics lean more in that direction at all. But I do wonder if there are contemporary subgenres that lean more in that direction, by and large. It's not my thing, but I do wonder about it once in a blue moon, and I figured I'd ask!

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 8:11 PM UTC

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