What is your favorite type of book.---mystery, military, romance, DIY, Sci Fi. or other,

[debm55]

[SheltieLover]

1. Mystery. I read 2-/day.

My fav!

[debm55]

3. Thank you SheltieLover. It is mine also.

[Polly Hennessey]

31. SheltiLover, I am impressed. Two a day.

I’m not in your league. Right now I am reading, A Body To Die For by Kate White (murder with a smart, sharp-tongued woman to help solve the crime); Imperium by Robert Harris (a trilogy about Cicero, fascinating); Henry V (a bio by Dan Jones).

I love mysteries because they have a solid ending. I like solutions. Hate unresolved conflicts and non-endings). One of my favorite books is The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

[Different Drummer]

2. I like non-fiction. n/t

[debm55]

5. Thank you Different Drummer.

[LakeArenal]

4. Not necessarily but generally like something light and relaxing.

Books like The Shell Seekers.
Also classics like Austen and Dickens.

Also like big thick long readers

[debm55]

6. Thank you LakeArenal.

[woodsprite]

7. Historical romance or non-fiction (biographies, history, etc.)

My dad said I was the only kid he knew that would go crazy over a non-fiction historical or reference book. He added to my library 2x a year up until he passed away when I was 28.

[debm55]

8. thank you woodsprite. What a wonderful way to remember your dad.

[OLDMDDEM]

9. Mystery

[debm55]

11. Thank you OLDMDDEM. My favorite too.

[Stargleamer]

10. Sci-Fi by far

I want to experience better worlds vicariously

[debm55]

12. Thank you Stargleamer.

[Srkdqltr]

13. I have been reading some si-fi lately, time travel. I like mystery. Some cosy some not.

My cousin has a historical-fiction coming out in November. I'll enjoy that.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. Don't know if this counts as a genre but I love Victorian/Edwardian era novels.

[debm55]

16. Thank you 50 Shades of Blue. I changed the OP so to include any type of book.

[malthaussen]

20. How about "Flashman?"

Definitely that era, but some people don't like satire, although Flashy is far from just satire.

-- Mal

[50 Shades Of Blue]

28. I have never read any of those books.

[malthaussen]

39. George MacDonald Fraser was England's bestselling author through much of the 70's.

The Flashman series purports to be the publication of discovered memoirs of Harry Flashman, the villain of Tom Brown's School Days. He is a liar, a coward, a cheat, a rogue, and a womanizer, who somehow managed to achieve great fame as a military officer in some of the greatest disasters of the Victorian period. His awards include a KCB, a VC, the US Medal of Honor, and numerous other decorations; he rose to the rank of Brigadier General. The books are hilarious, satirical, and yet deeply honor the others whom Flashman swindles, betrays, and abandons, all the while reaping undeserved laurels. They are written in the first person, and include extensive footnotes of the sources Fraser consulted to write the story. Withal, they're not everyone's cup of tea. Few persons of stature escape the satirical pen of the author, although Fraser does paint the common soldiers in an attractive light (having been one himself, he probably sympathized with them).

His WW2 memoir, Quartered Safe Out of Here, is an excellent account of the little-remembered Burma Campaign, and his short stories of Private MacAuslan, the "Dirtiest Soldier in the World," are quasi-memoirs of his own time as a junior officer in the post-WW2 Empire.

My favorite author, but again, there are many who don't like his style. He freely uses words that are now considered unfashionable, since he writes as a Victorian gentleman who never worried about such things. Thus, he is accused of racism, which is inaccurate; in fact, he is just about the opposite. But his most controversial book, Black Ajax, about the great heavyweight boxer Tom Molyneux, is criticized because it accurately portrays the racist attitudes of Britain in the early 19th century.

-- Mal

[hlthe2b]

15. Historical fiction or biographies/memoirs

[debm55]

17. Thank you hlthe2b. I also read Historical fiction.

[zanana1]

40. That's my favorite, too.

The best book of historical fiction I've ever read is "Trinity" by Leon Uris.

[malthaussen]

18. Military history, I suppose.

Been reading it all my life. As to fiction, sci-fi, mystery, and some historical fiction (George MacDonald Fraser is my favorite author). I consider Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (including Cryptonomicon ) to be one of the best "books" of the 21st century (if we consider a trilogy and a companion novel a "book" ).

Favorite authors include the aforesaid Fraser and Stephenson, Glen Cook, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, John D. MacDonald, Roger Zelazny, and Lois McMaster Bujold, on the fiction side. Make of that what you will.

-- Mal

[debm55]

21. Thank you Mal. You have a great selection of books and authors.

[Phentex]

19. Memoir

There's something so compelling in them to me

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much. Phentex.

[Permanut]

23. True Crime..

Oregon native here, started with Ann Rule's "Small Sacrifices", then her "Stranger Beside Me". I have all of her books, some of them signed.

[debm55]

24. Thank you Permanut Great choice.

[ravjav]

25. Horror and Post-Apocolyptic. NT

[debm55]

36. Thank you ravjav. And welcome to DU

[Niagara]

26. I like the following book genres:

Biographies, Children's literature, True Crime, Thriller and Horror.

[debm55]

29. Thank you Niagara. Now that sure fits in with Halloween.

[Ocelot II]

27. Murder mysteries! I eat them up.

[debm55]

30. Thank you very much Ocelot II.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. I am an eclectic reader so it is hard to pin down...however...

I love a good series! Even if the plot is different in each book, I like being with familiar characters and locations. Also I hate reading them out of order if the storyline is continuous; I always feel that I am missing information if I read out of order . Sometimes I get locked into a series and don't surface until I have finished them all.

having said that:
espionage fiction
archaeological adventure (I have several good authors in that genre)
Mysteries; light or heavy
Supernatural especially if setting is New Orleans
historical fiction
Setting in Florida especially South Florida
Fantasy sometimes
anything by Carl Hiaasen.

I do not read Sci-Fi, Westerns, romance, and rarely read non fiction - I read to escape

[debm55]

34. Thank you very much yellowdogintexas for your great selection. You have some great reading there.

[global1]

33. Everything Dan Brown Writes......nt

[debm55]

35. Thank you very much global1.

[NNadir]

37. Hardcore science and history.

[debm55]

38. Thank you NNadir.

[Sneederbunk]

41. Civil War

[Onthefly]

42. History and historical novels

[debm55]

43. Thank you very much Onthefly.

[CanonRay]

44. Sci Fi and historical fiction and non-fiction

Also like Grisham a lot.

[debm55]

45. Thank you CanonRay. very good selection.

[arkielib]

46. It's a hard choice between mysteries and Sci-Fi.

But I guess mysteries win. My favorite is the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters.

[debm55]

47. Thank you very much arkielib

[Emile]

48. Anything John Grisham writes.

[debm55]

49. Thank you Emile

[justaprogressive]

50. Sci-fi mysteries!

and perhaps to introduce to some of you, one of the greatest scifi/mystery writers of the 20th century...

Master of the short-short, a remarkable output guaranteeing months of reading pleasure..

Fredric Brown

known for:

The Screaming Mimi
Martians Go Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Brown_bibliography

[debm55]

54. Thank you justaprogressive.

[k55f5r]

51. Military Science Fiction.

Some mystery, action, and comedy too.
But I've been reading 3 to 33 book series on my Kindle for 5-6 yrs. Thousands and thousands of books. I usually read a 300 page book in a day or less, and my Kindle keeps track of the days I don't turn it on (less than a week total in that time.)

[debm55]

55. Thank you k55f5r. I have a Kindle but don't use as much.

[debm55]

56. Thank you k55f5r. I have a Kindle but don't use as much.

[PedroXimenez]

52. Careful asking this to Robert DeNiro

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but i'm not as uptight as him, i've been reading history books recently

[debm55]

58. HAHAHAH Thank you PedroXimenez

[electric_blue68]

53. Sci-Fi (from ?10 yrs old)! Various Non-Fic.

I'd seen Twilight Zone, atomic monster movies, then Outer Limits somewhen from 7 yrs old onwards- so one day I saw a SF novel on my dad's side of the bureau maybe when I was ?9, or 10. He said yes.
I didn't understand it all, but I was hooked, and never looked back! 😄

Some of the best World & Galactic Civilization Building along with Great Characters both human and other sapients goes to David Brin's Uplift Universe.

Simak, Clarke, Asimov. Some of Harlen Ellison's Anothologies. Connie Willis.

In Non Fiction I've read some History, Science, Politics.

On rare occasion other kinds of fiction.

[debm55]

59. Wow, that is great. Thank you electric_blue68

[LoisB]

57. Non-Fiction: History, Autobiography, Biography

Fiction: Mystery

[debm55]

60. Thank you LoisB for your great selection.

[Wicked Blue]

61. Mystery - by woman authors

[debm55]

62. Thank you very much, Wicked Blue.

[Luciferous]

63. Mysteries. I listen to audiobooks while

I'm working.

[debm55]

64. Thank you Luciferous They are my favorites too

[electric_blue68]

65. Got a Historical Fiction w some Sci Fi in it for HF fans: WW2 Great Britain/London...

Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

I'd read a few of her short stories which I liked.
Not sure why I picked this to read - but I really liked it.

Now I only read the 2nd book All Clear; a hefty trade paperback at ?600+, or 800+ pgs. It maaaay be considered one book; but it would have been ? at least 1,100 - 1,200 pages or even more!

The Sci-Fi part is the time traveling historians who travel back to London & GB during WW2.
Some critics said it was a bit too ?sanitized. Idk, I enjoyed it.

[debm55]

68. Thank you very much electric_blue68

[Elessar Zappa]

66. Easily fantasy.

Second place is science fiction. I’m a nerd at heart lol.

[debm55]

69. Thank you Elessar Zappa.

[Tikki]

67. I read quite a bit of musicians' biographies and autobiographies..

and articles.
I read sci-fi and history, also.

Tikki

[debm55]

70. Thank you Tiki