Title: Character Networks and Book Genre Classification,
Abstract: We compare the social character networks of biographical, legendary and
fictional texts, in search for marks of genre differentiation. We examine the
degree distribution of character appearance and find a power law that does not
depend on the literary genre or historical content. We also analyze local and
global complex networks measures, in particular, correlation plots between the
recently introduced Lobby (or Hirsh $H(1)$) index and Degree, Betweenness and
Closeness centralities. Assortativity plots, which previous literature claims
to separate fictional from real social networks, were also studied. We've found
no relevant differences in the books for these network measures and we give a
plausible explanation why the previous assortativity result is not correct.