minigenre

plural minigenres

1. A small, specialist genre.

   All of them could be called candidate lit, a publishing minigenre that includes runaway best sellers (“The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois) and unqualified duds (“Between Worlds,” a memoir by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico).

   2007 February 22, Julie Bosman, “Time to Throw Their Books Into the Ring”, in New York Times