The best one (take out the country list) I think, also not going beyond 200 (though I would add a few sports separately)

http://www.magazines.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-mags-us-Site/default/Search-BrowseCats?cgid=magazines

Can't you just pinch theirs? Ebay's magazine categories are good too.

Heres the category list as it stands at the moment.

I took both those lists as a guideline but I didn't use everything on each list as some seemed to have very few publications.

Any glaring omissions?

Suggestions please.

We still need Childrens (or whatever it ends up being called) and we haven't got Fiction & Poetry or The Arts (or whatever they end up being called).

The Computers > Games > Nintendo category could just be Consoles (instead of Nintendo); there were/are certainly magazines about for Sega, XBox, Playstation and so on and so on. We could lump them all in one bucket.

Aside from that it's starting to take shape nicely, and I see some of our regular magazine contributors have done some sterling work allocating categories as well, which is great.

...all of which reminds me, I have a small stack of mags waiting to be added that I must get sorted at some point!

Oh and Science Fiction could be Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror?

At the moment we have Fear under Sci Fi but it was a Horror magazine primarily.

Some suggestions:
Fashion or Fashion & Style or Style & Fashion :)
LGBT
Literary


Plus a category for magazines with Crosswords, puzzles etc.

Have changed Science Fiction to Science Fiction & Fantasy.

Have added Horror as a separate one.

(I thought it was there before but must have imagined it)

Fashion & Style added.
Literature & Poetry added.
LGBT added

Not sure how to classify Crosswords etc.

Any suggestions?

Puzzles & Wordgames?

Watch out for people suddenly adding random puzzle books though. Or are they magazines? I dunno... I suppose some of them are if they are regular publications etc etc...