What types of books do you enjoy reading?

SW-Questions · 2025-09-16T04:00:04-04:00

Books & Reading - What types of books do you enjoy reading? (40 replies).

Horror, classics, nonfiction, history, romance, and thrillers.

I suppose anything with a good plot if it's fiction.
Can't be doing with in depth characterization.
Just give me the basics and let my imagination fill in the rest.

That may be why I read so little modern day fiction.
I think the older you get the more you come to want the old reliable stuff you collect and re-read again and again.

robertsnj · 56-60, M

reading was in phases to me.

When i was in my teens it was action adventure books some hooro books (like Stephen KIng) and sometimes creative writing. In college I studed a lot and only read a few books but I do remember reading a few non fiction books--

Up to 3 years after college I was so tired of all the reading I did in college i did not read at all. But in the rest of my 20's i learned towards non fiction, in general with a wide vareity in topics

In my 30's i read the bible most of the bhagavid, most of the qoran, buddhist texts on the 8 path a ton of philosophy books and eventually realized i was an atheist i also keep reading non fiction--i read in my 30's

In my 40's i started migrating back to fiction more books on a variety of topics but not so much action and I stopped reading horror completely --i read some philosophy but not much

in my 50's it almost all fiction for me. Just about anything but romance novels

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

When I'm listening to audio books, they have been either self motivation books or books of sociology theory and ideas. I have really slowed down the amount I read. I think it is because I get a lot of information from podcasts which are a lot like audiobooks.

peterlee · M

Modern Japanese novels, such as Yoko Ogawa and Meiji Kawasmi

George’s Simenon: Maiget detective novels

Ernest Hemingway: macho and nostalgia. I love his succinct style and understatement.

SomeIrishPerson · 31-35, M

Recently I've been reading Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens novels. I also read a lot of history and some philosophical works too.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Depends on my mood...

But I mostly read non-fiction (political studies, philosophy, history and sociology). Sometimes I just go for fiction... could be a classic or just something that caught my eye. And I continuously read some kind of comic (can be anything, depends on what caught my eye... I'm not a big fan of the overly American superhero stuff).

HiFiRaver · 18-21, M

I read mostly fiction, often contemporary and often foreign (been reading a lot of Japanese, Latin American, and Irish fiction lately). I also do read older stuff, and I read non-fiction (mostly history) too.