Question: I have been scouring the internet for a few days and have not been able to find what I am looking for, so I decided to come here and ask you fine people if you have an answer to my line of inquiry. 

I have been looking for what a group of books is called and why it is named so, id est, the type of series that it is and why it is called that. 

For example, chronicles are multiple pieces of literature that take place in the same place or involve the same character(s). Words like chronicle and saga are examples of what I am looking for.

Answer: 
**[bibliotheca](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bibliotheca)**

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> **1.** A collection of books; a library.   
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> **2.** A catalog of books.
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**[anthology](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthology)**

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> a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: *an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.* 
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There are different terms like **omnibus, bibliography, collection, novel sequence, roman-fleuve** as well.

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You might be asking for **narrative genres** also.

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> A [narrative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative) (or play) is any account of **connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words**, or in a sequence of (moving) pictures.
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> Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal/stylistic categories:
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> * non-fiction (e.g. New Journalism, creative non-fiction, biographies,
>  and historiography);
> * fictionalized accounts of historical events (e.g. anecdotes, myths,
>  and legends);
> * and **fiction proper (i.e. literature in prose, such as short stories
>  and novels, and sometimes in poetry and drama, although in drama the
>  events are primarily being shown instead of told).**
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And here is a list of all literary genres which covers narrative genres:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_genres>

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**[An explanation for your specific examples:](http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095611345)**

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> **chronicle novel**   
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> A long novel or connected sequence of novels in which the narrative recounts the fortunes of a family or similar group of recurring characters over many years, usually covering at least two generations. 
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> This category of fiction overlaps with the **saga novel**, where the emphasis is on changes within a family; but where the story attempts to reflect typical developments in social history over a sustained period, the term ‘chronicle novel’ may be preferred, especially if the story's events are connected with notably historic dates and events.
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I too have been searching for a similar term.

What is the collective word for a listing of all the works of one author. A singer might have a "discography" to list their recordings, for instance.

I have found "catalogue", which seems to work, but there is a niggler at the back of my mind that tells me there is a more specific term. Hopefully someone here can nail it down better.