diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v1/genres_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v1/genres_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68939c97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v1/genres_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class Api::V1::GenresController < ApplicationController
+  def index
+    @genres = Genre.published
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v1/genres/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v1/genres/index.json.jbuilder
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3005deca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/api/v1/genres/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+json.array! @genres do |genre|
+    json.name genre.name
+    json.slug genre.slug
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 8f63b5b6..5ef5c323 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@
 
   namespace :api do
     namespace :v1 do
-      get "new_releases", to: "products#new_releases", as: "new_releases"
-      get "top_ten", to: "products#top_ten", as: "top_ten"
+      resources :products  do
+        get "new_releases", to: "products#new_releases", on: :collection
+        get "top_ten", to: "products#top_ten", on: :collection
+      end
+      resources :genres, only: :index
     end
   end