Don’t know why this is getting down voted.

At least it isn’t a sea lion.

I hate when people gatekeep what is"literature" and what is “genre”. One of the more egregious examples is someone was rest to die on the hill that The Time Traveler’s Wife is “literary fiction” instead of “genre fiction” like sci-fi, particularly since time travel is central to the plot.

TL;DR: anyone who calls one type of fiction literature and excludes the rest from that definition is deeply unserious and so are their statements.