What is your favorite genre of books? I like historical books and mystery books. And you?

[debm55]

[Permanut]

1. True crime..

Oregon native here, got hooked on Ann Rule's "Small Sacrifices".

[debm55]

2. Thank you very much for sharing. Permanut.

[livetohike]

4. My favorite true crime author. n/t

[debm55]

48. Thank you very much, livetohike.

[applegrove]

3. I like social histories. I have not read one in a while.

[debm55]

6. Thank you very much, applegrove

[livetohike]

5. True crime, history and historical fiction. n/t

[debm55]

7. Thank you very much for sharing with us, livetohike.

[SheltieLover]

8. Funny cozy mysteries

I read 2-3 per day. Self-confirmed book slut.

[debm55]

11. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHH. Thank you very much, SheltieLover. That;s funny.

[SheltieLover]

18. 😊

👍

[Srkdqltr]

9. I like some science fiction and police procedure, particularly British at the moment.

[debm55]

12. Thank you very much, Srkdqltr for sharing with us. They sound very interesting.

[Polly Hennessey]

10. Once again, Deb I am with you.

Love mysteries and history. I am reading Best in Snow by David Rosenfelt. I believe SheltieLover turned me on to this writer. Andy Carpenter is a smart aleck defense attorney who also has a Golden Retriever named Tara. My history book this week is Dan Jones’ book on Henry V. 📚📘📖

[debm55]

13. I am writing both of the author's names down. And see if I can order from Amazon.Thank you Polly Hennessey.

[Dear_Prudence]

53. Loved those books!

I was sad when I finished them all. But I am blessed with a poor memory for plots. So, in a few years, I can visit Andy Carpenter again and I'll have no recollection of who-dunnit.

[debm55]

71. Great recommendation, Dear_Prudence.

[MIButterfly]

14. Mystery and biography (including autobiography).

[debm55]

70. Thank you very much for sharing with us, MIButterfly.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Strictly A Non-Fiction Guy

WW2, Robber Baron era, and a bunch of music biographies. (I read Glynn John's bio late last year.)

[Permanut]

16. WW2 is a never ending source of remarkable stories..

My parents generation. My wife's father was on a supply ship in the Pacific that was hit by a kamikaze plane. Damaged but not sunk: if they had been successful my wife wouldn't exist.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Here's One For Ya!

My dad's cousin Frank was one of the Band Of Brothers!.
He was a 10 or so years older than my dad, so old enough for WW2.
He was a paratrooper on the 101st and was portrayed by James Madio in the miniseries on HBo.
He went to the HS where I now occasionally substitute teach.
His brother Jack lived in the city too, and his kid became an MLB player. So, Frank became famous & so did his nephew.
I read a few books in the series & my dad was hooked on the miniseries because of the family connection.

[pansypoo53219]

56. have you read badass of the week? he focuses on some great less heard of war stories.

now its videos or buy his books.

[Permanut]

59. Great tip, thanks!

[pansypoo53219]

57. actor christopher lee was a major badass. + this one russian in a building stopped hitler invading russia.

[debm55]

47. Thank you very much for sharing with us, ProfessorGAC. I read you uncle's story

[debm55]

69. Thank you very much, ProfessorGAC for sharing with us.

[Aristus]

17. History and biography.

I do like historical mysteries, though. My two favorite series, the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries, and the Gordianus the Finder Mysteries, are set in Ancient Rome. The Principate for Falco, and the Roman Republic for Gordianus. I recommend them both highly.

[debm55]

45. Thank you very much, Aristus, for sharing your genres with us. Enjoy reading them.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Biographies and cookbooks

[debm55]

32. Thank you very much for your selections, no_hypocrisy. Very interesting.

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. Mysteries

[debm55]

30. I agree. Thank you very much, MustLoveBeagles. Mysteries is one of my favorites. too.

[LogDog75]

22. I have a couple of genres

I like mysteries. Police, lawyer, or other non-police character mysteries. Series like Jack Reacher by Lee Child, the Prey series centering on Lucas Davenport by John Sanford.

I like classic scifi like The Foundation Series or Job, a Comedy of Errors.

Good, modern scifi novels by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, and Andy Weir.

Classics like Les Miserables, and Great Expectations.

Not much of a mystery romance fan but I do like the Rockton novels by Kelley Armstrong and the Eve Duncan and kendra Michaels series by Iris Johansen.

[debm55]

25. Thank you very much for your varied selections, LogDog75.

[electric_blue68]

23. Science Fiction! Occasionally....

Non-fiction: a rare biography quite way back, definitely some straight Science books.
A rarer non SF novel.

One Historical Science Fiction by Connie Willis - ?Duology Blackout/All Clear
I read the 2nd.
A bunch of future time traveling historians travel back to London/England (not sure if they go to Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) during WW2.
Interesting!
One critic said it wasn't rough enough.
I liked it.

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much for your selections. electric_blue68.

[MiHale]

26. Sci-if...

Not the fluffy Star Wars or Star Trek crap real hard, speculative novels. Time is an interesting subject I’m drawn to.

[debm55]

29. Thank you very much for your selection of true, Sci-fi, MiHale. Enjoy your reading.

[MiHale]

31. I called this winter a "17 novel winter"...

6 down so far, running a little behind.

[debm55]

44. Sure seems like it is going to be. Thank you MiHale.

[justaprogressive]

46. Some inspirational novels

have you read "Agent of Chaos"? (Spinrad)

or Supermind & The Weapon Shops of Isher (by AE van VOGT)

[MiHale]

49. Haven't read those sounds good...

Of course I’ve done all the classics, the total Dune series, Foundation along with all the Robot series, most of Iain Banks sci-fi stuff. Lighter reading would include John Varley books…he has a ton.

Lately checking out newer authors, Emily St. John Mandel being one…responsible for Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. Blake Crouch…Recursion, Dark Matter, Upgrade, Pines. Daniel Wilson… Robopocalypse and Robogenesis, Hole in the Sky. Adrian Tchaikovsky…is an author that I’ve read but need to discover more Alien Clay is my only one so far, started Shards of Earth. Nicholas Binge…Professor Everywhere, Ascension, Dissolution.

[Walleye]

27. Murder mysteries and stories about the sea like Joseph Conrad.

[debm55]

28. Wonderful selection. I like murder mysteries too. Thank you very much Walleye.

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. There are several I like

Historical fiction, but ONLY if well- researched and well-written.
Speculative fiction, ditto
Alternative history (reading one right now(
Some fantasy, but not romantasy--I kind of like riffs on Peter Pan, for instance.

[debm55]

35. Thank you very much for your wonderful selection, Jilly_in_VA

[walkingman]

34. Spy novels...John Le Carre' is my favorite ☮

[debm55]

36. LOVE it. Thank you for your great selection.walkingman

[lark]

40. I LOVE his writing.

[Ritabert]

37. Mystery novels from Agatha Christie to Michael Connelly

[debm55]

43. Thank you very much for sharing with us.Ritabert.

[justaprogressive]

38. Science Fiction

Science & technology-based.

[debm55]

42. Thank you very much, justaprogressive, for sharing your genre.

[lark]

39. I love to read. period.the.end.

I will read almost anything, but faves are (more or less in order)
Sci-Fi /Fantasy
Spy
Historical novel
Action adventure
Mystery
Comedy

[debm55]

41. Oh you, Thank you very much, lark, for your selections.

[malthaussen]

50. History, sci-fi, mystery.

Some people manage to combine all three, but it's tough.

Historical fiction is also a toughie. Some authors do their homework and present really good period fiction. Others obviously know nothing about the period they're writing about. Since I am an historian, this is more significant to me than to others who are just looking for a good time.

Sometimes the same thing can be said about sci-fi. The various Star Trek series were entertainment, but the only thing that made them "sci-fi" was that they were set in a speculative future; their science was abominable. Non-existent, really. This is true of most "sci-fi" for the big and little screen.

-- Mal

[debm55]

68. Thank you very much, Mal. I would like to add to my genres--Time travel to the past. I read the whole series of books

called Outlander. Loved them. It is a mixture of time travel to Scotland in the past and America. Wonderful series.

[Maninacan]

51. Science and technical.

Why things break
The perfectionist's.
I also like older language and writing

[debm55]

60. Very interesting, Thank you Maninacan

[perfessor]

52. Chess books.

“My Life and Games” by Milkhail Tal would be my favorite.

Yes, I am a geek.

I also enjoy mysteries and historical.

[debm55]

66. Perfect, Thank you very much for sharing the genres of books., perfessor.

[Dear_Prudence]

54. Just re-read The Hobbit

I like cozy mysteries (Mercy Carr and her malinois Elvis mystery in A Borrowing of Bones; Hamish MacBeth mystery in Death of an Outsider), Regency romances (Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club series is good), and ancient epics (wading thru The Mahabharata now).

[debm55]

65. Love your selection of books. Thank you so much for sharing with us, Dear_Prudence. Love to reread books.

[NNadir]

55. My personal library is dominated by scientific monographs and history.

My electronic library is dominated by chemistry with heavy attention to the chemistry of used nuclear fuels and subsidiary environmental chemistry, as well as molecular biology and its analytical chemistry, the latter concerned with my job.

At night, while trying to wind down for sleep, I largely read history, generally American and European history, as well as biography.

I recently had occasion to rearrange my personal library in order to have a new furnace installed, and I realized that I have a huge number of history books I have not found time to read.

I generally don't read books cover to cover although I recently did so for a book on the arrest and trial and conviction, followed by imprisonment of the former President of Vichy France, Marshall Petain. Arrest and trial of a former head of State now strikes me as uplifting.

I read at least four or five hours a day.

Right now my current bedtime book is a massive book on the history of the British Empire and the violence on which it depended. It's pretty sobering.

If I retired I could spend every day of my remaining life reading and not have to visit a library again. The problem is that I do visit libraries, far too often.

I have so little time left on this planet and there is still so much I want to know. I regret my wild years and the time lost in them that might have been better invested in study.

[debm55]

64. Thank you very much for sharing the books you have read and their genres. Wonderful post, NNadir.

[pansypoo53219]

58. mystery, history, random books i find at estate sales. they said we wouldn't fight by floyd gibbons

was AWESOME. great ww1 book. i got some studs terkel books. his the "good" war is MILES better than that brokaw shit. i found a book listing all the environmental books. ALL OF THEM. a few old ones i got for the future. and i need to get to my collected volumes of casanova's memoirs. i like diaries. civil war. i got 4 free 1904 encyclopedia 'sat a sale + f so good needed a whole set. found a 1891 set. up to g. fiction is meh.

[debm55]

63. Wow that is great. Thank you very much, pansypoo53219.

[CTyankee]

61. Art history. I love finding the back story on famous artists and their works. Also, any novels about stolen art.

[debm55]

62. Excellent, CTyankee. Thank you for sharing with us.

[Dorothy V]

67. Oh jeez, words in a row! I prefer non-fiction but will read anything except romance novels, all of which seem to be

variations on the same plot with the same characters. Otherwise, everything from biographies to space opera is found in my library and my to-read list. My favorite author is Mark Twain, and my favorite century to read about is the amazing 1800s!

[debm55]

72. Thank you very much, Dorothy V. I don't think I ever read a romance novel or seen a Hallmark movie. I like your list.