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Top 100 Literary genres in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest literary genres in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 119 literary genres tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Humour, Fiction books and Aphorism lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 40M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.4M, and the largest, Humour, reaches around 16M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each literary genre, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
76 Hard science fiction 73k 39.9 20.9% Literary genre
77 Military science fiction 60k 42.9 29.8% Literary genre
78 Arabic literature 57k 40.5 41.1% Literary genre
79 Young Adult Books 56k 31.6 58.4% Literary genre
80 African-American literature 53k 41.4 47.7% Literary genre
81 Chinese philosophy 52k 43.6 62.0% Literary genre
82 Italian literature 51k 45.8 71.7% Literary genre
83 Academic writing 51k 48.6 67.6% Literary genre
84 Eastern philosophy 46k 47.3 70.8% Literary genre
85 Cozy mystery 43k 40.6 70.1% Literary genre
86 Tamil literature 38k 37.6 44.8% Literary genre
87 Japanese horror 33k 31.1 14.9% Literary genre
88 Heroic fantasy 28k 39.5 38.0% Literary genre
89 Alternate history 25k 31.0 27.2% Literary genre
90 Scandinavian noir 24k 45.1 43.8% Literary genre
91 Franco-Belgian comics 22k 32.8 23.2% Literary genre
92 Dōjinshi 18k 30.2 52.6% Literary genre
93 Utopian and dystopian fiction 18k 40.6 67.8% Literary genre
94 Personalized books 12k 27.4 69.5% Literary genre
95 Sufi poetry 11k 30.9 50.3% Literary genre
96 Political fiction 6.7k 26.2 48.0% Literary genre
97 Creative nonfiction 5.6k 31.0 59.7% Literary genre
98 Erotic thriller 3.9k — — Literary genre
99 First-person narrative 3.4k 28.1 22.6% Literary genre
100 Comic fantasy 2.4k 43.4 44.9% Literary genre

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each literary genre by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest literary genre in Italy?

Humour currently leads with an estimated audience of 16M people in Italy.

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