Street Lit/Urban Fiction

Street literature goes by many names:

• Street lit or fiction
• Urban lit or urban fiction
• Hip-hop lit or hip-hop fiction
• Ghetto lit
• Gangsta lit

The term "urban fiction" is used more often for these kinds of books. However, this guide and other reference sources use "street lit" to include both fiction and nonfiction, as "urban fiction" tends to include subgenres of books that are not street lit.