Our corpus consists of 628 German novels mainly from the 19th century (roughly 1745 to 1935) obtained from sources like the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="textgrid.de/digitale-bibliothek">TextGrid Digital Library</ref> or the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de">German Projekt Gutenberg</ref>. The novels have been manually labeled according to their subgenre after research in literary lexica and handbooks. The corpus contains 221 adventure novels, 88 social novels and 86 educational novels; the rest are novels from different subgenres.