I have been reading for as long as I can remember but it wasn’t till late last year that I came to peace with the genres I like and don’t like. Leggy has been encouraging me to pick up the life hack of dropping a book when I don’t like it. Putting that into practice, I began to notice patterns, a lot of the dropped books were romance novels. As you all know, I go into many books blind and once I get into it and notice it’s a boy meets girl novel, my heart sinks. I also noticed that it required all my energy and electrolytes to settle into fantasy/sci fi books.
Anyways, I took a dive into the books I enjoyed and narrowed down my favorite genres.
*SPOILER ALERT* the picture above gives it away.
Fiction: 95% of my reading life consists of pure fiction. I love how dynamic this genre is. How the story and the characters could be anything and anywhere in any direction the author chooses. It especially hits when you read a book that is fictional but feels so real (See: Beartown or American Marriage). This is also the genre for good ol’ quotables and I love a book with quotes for days.
Biography: I found this out about myself last year when I realized I had read quite a number of them. I am not quite sure what that means, I like the tea? hehe. No but seriously, I think memoirs give the opportunity to see what makes a person tick and in the case of celeb memoirs I find it interesting to see what their perspective was on an incident that might have been public fodder. I especially like when a memoir is open, honest, tells us things we did not know before and the author seems to have learned from their experience.
New Fiction: How is this different from Fiction you may be asking? There is not much of a difference but I wanted to note that I am a New Fiction release whore. Not a lot of my reading life consists of back list titles. I am sucker for the new and shiny. I get on the wait list in my library when I see titles around. I have huge FOMO and I always want to be part of the conversation when it comes to buzz worthy books. Also, walking through the bookstores and going through that section gives me a thrill.
That’s my summary on the genres that make me tick in my reading life. I do want to do better and every year I say I’d like to be as diverse in genres as Leggy is but I have to accept that maybe it isn’t in the cards for me. I’ll let you know if anything changes.
How about you? What are your favorite genres to read?
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