Most research on genre classification has been looking into what you could call ‘high level classes’ like newspaper genres (news, editorials etc.; e.g. Frank and Bouckaert, 2006) or web genres (blog, personal website etc.; e.g. Eissen and Stein, 2004). Under this perspective all texts we are looking at belong to one genre: the novel. The subgenres are types of love stories like the doctor novel (‚Arztroman‘) or the country novel (‚Heimatroman‘) and types of adventure novels, mainly distinguished by the setting: the war novel (‚Kriegsroman‘) or the science fiction novel. These novels are cheap (‘dime novels’) and published in a booklet format and are usually distributed via magazine kiosks and not book shops (Stockinger 2018). From the very beginning it was clear to us, that they don’t contain a random collection of each genre. On the contrary, the crime novels for example are just a small and very specific subsection of crime novels in general. But nevertheless we assumed that genre is the main aspect to group novels - for publishers and readers.