Your Favorite Book Genre

[IMAMONKEY!]

This is just a poll that I've been wondering about. The trick is once you vote state one book of that genre so I can gain examples. Basically what I'm doing is gaining a list of summer reading books but I thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone likes here.

[Tormod]

This really ought to be a multiple choice poll!

 

My favorite category is science fiction but I also read tons of popular science books.

[InfiniteNow]

I can't read. Sorry, I won't be of much help to your exercise, but wish you nothing but the best.

 

Illititerate is not commnunicating with a sequence of words that all begin with the same sound.

 

 

Kidding aside, I suggest the following (probably the book that has thus far impacted me the most):

Black Holes and Time Warps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

See also page regarding it's author:

Kip Thorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Racoon]

Concerning fiction books, Classics are my favorite..

 

Anything Dickens and Steinbeck. If its an old classic, and I've heard of the book, or its author, I'll give it a shot.

 

 

I also enjoy biographies and philosophy books

[Heresiarch]

Speculative philosophy and theology. There the ideas range most wildly. Whitehead, Hartshorne . . . that sort of thing.

[maikeru]

Historical fiction now. Try I, Claudius by Robert Graves. Purportedly written by a Caesar!

 

My other favorites are SF and fantasy, but I don't read as much of either as I did before. Now, I read whatever interests me.

[Buffy]

I put down "nonfiction" because that's mostly what I've been reading recently: science, history, politics, essays.

 

I like fiction too, but I'd hardly catagorize what I like as "realistic" or "scifi" or "fantasy" although its up to you to disagree that my faves are in any of these categories: Faulkner, Kafka, Brautigan, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Tom Robbins....

 

My mother is a fish, :bouquet:

Buffy

[Pyrotex]

Up until I was 40 or so, practically all I read was Science Fiction, with the very rare exception of an occassional bodice ripper. :hihi: The amount of SF that I have read, and still remember, is staggering.

 

Then, I believe it was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid that switched me over to non-fiction. From then on, I have been buying books on history, brain-science, Pulitzer non-fiction, bios, cosmology, astronomy, chaos, computer theory, paleontology, evolution, philosophy, systems theory. And bodice rippers.

"The Dilbert Principle"

[maikeru]

Up until I was 40 or so, practically all I read was Science Fiction, with the very rare exception of an occassional bodice ripper. ;) The amount of SF that I have read, and still remember, is staggering.

 

Then, I believe it was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid that switched me over to non-fiction. From then on, I have been buying books on history, brain-science, Pulitzer non-fiction, bios, cosmology, astronomy, chaos, computer theory, paleontology, evolution, philosophy, systems theory. And bodice rippers. ;)

"The Dilbert Principle"

 

I have GED but not read it yet. I think I must still be living in the dark. Must rectify the situation...

[steph_r]

I'll go with realistic fiction, though non-fiction comes as a close second.

With fiction, I like to delve into crime-fiction mostly, generally ones that go into the science behind it all, like forensics and such.

Non-fiction... well, anything that's interesting floats my boat.

[PedroH]

To be truth I like almost any kind of book,if it is an interesting one.But I have to choose non-fiction,direct to the subject ^^.

[Nootropic]

Mathematics! Calculus books are relatively exciting to read, I must say.

[Vibrio]

I can't stand fiction anymore. Back in grade school and middle school I loved reading the realistic fiction stuff. Now I can't stand it! I don't really know why. I guess I just got tired of it. I vote for non fiction because I like reading facts, history and news.

[Sacri Sankt]

hmm, i like crime thillers and science romance, neither of which is on your list :/

 

i chose historical fiction, but only because ive been reading a series of crime thrillers set in old kingdom egypt :)

[Queso]

poetry, philosophy, ancient texts, stray bibles, mind books, free books, thrown books, two books

[iguana]

favorite book genre for me would be in the companionship of Harlan Ellison ~ short stories that are fiction, i guess ~ or maybe non-fiction:confused: ; humorous and horrific; science fiction? speculative hard fact? maybe not too keen on this whole genre thing: actually neither was Joyce, another of my favorites; and Emily Dickinson, too ~ how 'bout the genre of nongenre?

[Hill]

Nonfiction: Lots - from periodicals to online to books. My favorite authors: John McPhee who writes about anything and makes it interesting, Bernd Heinrich, best known about his works about ravens, and Edwin Way Teale, mid 20th century naturalist

Realistic Fiction : John McDonald's Travis McGee series, Tony Hillerman's Chee/Leaphorn series about the 4 Corners area of the US, many others

Historical Fiction: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series about early 19th century British navy exploits

Fantasy: Tolkien

Science Fiction: Larry Niven, Arthur C Clarke, Heinlein, Frank Herbert and a host of others over the years

Horror : not much, but a few Stephen King

Comix : I have the twenty pound compendiums of Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side - always a great reference. :D

Popular Science: Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond command the most bookshelf space.

Many nature guides covering all natural sciences.

 

...And then there's the web, which takes too much time away from by book larnin' The latest wrinkle in this addiction is something called Hypography Science Forums. :hihi: :) ;)