If you only had access to one of these genres of books, which would you choose?

brianlux
brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
edited March 2018 in All Encompassing Trip
Almost as difficult as a really tough "would you rather"! (I started with 14 options but am only allowed to post 10.)
"It's a sad and beautiful world"
-Roberto Benigni

If you only had access to one of these genres of books, which would you choose? 27 votes

Classics in Literature
11%
Thoughts_ArrivergambsSmallestOceans 3 votes
Contemporary Literature (Palauniuk, Picoult etc.)
7%
elvistheking44Malroth 2 votes
Best Sellers (Clancy, Patterson, etc.)
7%
markymark550RYME 2 votes
Science Fiction
7%
intodeepoceaninmyeyes 2 votes
Biographies
29%
josevolutiongoldrushlolobuggMedozKBLACK35OffSheGoes35WhatYouTaughtMeHughFreakingDillon 8 votes
Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure
3%
brianlux 1 vote
Mysteries
29%
PureandEasyEnkidustuckinlineWobbieJimmyVBentleyspop23scidooRogueStoner 8 votes
Horror (King, Barker, etc.)
3%
PJ_Soul 1 vote
Romance Novels
0%
Creative Arts and Poetry
0%
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  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,558
    Contemporary Literature (Palauniuk, Picoult etc.)
    Booooks!
    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    Mysteries
    Brian,
    Great poll, but it was very difficult to choose only one. I flipped a coin for my choice.
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    Mysteries
    Went with mystery but would be unhappy losing access to many of the others.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure
    stuckinline said:
    Brian,
    Great poll, but it was very difficult to choose only one. I flipped a coin for my choice.
    Thanks!  Yeah, looking at this list it's kind of a form of self-torture.  If I had to make such an absurd choice, I would go with Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure but would surely miss some of the other categories.  Fortunately, I would be able to know I'd read many of the classics.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,070
    Mysteries
    But i like also Horror and SF..
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    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    10 is bullshit. We need @MedozK on this.

    Missing comic books/mangia/graphic novels; how-to; history; psychology/self-help; children's (young adult, picture books, chapter books, choose your own adventure, etc.); reference; business; politics; criticism; erotica; essays; humor....
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    edited March 2018
    Horror (King, Barker, etc.)
    I would actually choose the dystopian future/apocalyptic genre, if you can call that a genre.... I guess that covers a couple different genres at least. I chose horror for some reason to try and cover this, and because I'm a big Stephen King fan and wouldn't want to give him up (I really don't read any horror at all besides him, and lots of his stuff isn't even horror), but that doesn't cover it at all. To choose that "genre" I'd need to select modern fiction/lit, science fiction, and horror.... I guess I needed a sub-genre selection!
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,880
    Too tough.  Fantasy/historical fiction/fiction

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Too tough.  Fantasy/historical fiction/fiction

    F Me’s combo choice for the win!

    I could live with that, though unhappily. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    ^^^^^ Except it needs to have SciFi too, so let’s call it speculative fiction. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Mysteries
    This is hard.  I'd also add non-fiction.  And I voted for mysteries, but classics was a close number 2.  
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,398
    Mysteries
    "mysteries".....but more like crime noir (harry bosch, elvis cole, etc.), not the agatha christie type.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Classics in Literature
    Couldn't survive without Milton, Browning, Blake, Billie S, Wilde, etc
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    edited March 2018
    Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure
    dankind said:
    10 is bullshit. We need @MedozK on this.

    Missing comic books/mangia/graphic novels; how-to; history; psychology/self-help; children's (young adult, picture books, chapter books, choose your own adventure, etc.); reference; business; politics; criticism; erotica; essays; humor....
    I know!  Only 10 meant that I had to eliminate Automotive Repair Manuals and other hugely popular categories.  :anguished:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure
    PJ_Soul said:
    I would actually choose the dystopian future/apocalyptic genre, if you can call that a genre.... I guess that covers a couple different genres at least. I chose horror for some reason to try and cover this, and because I'm a big Stephen King fan and wouldn't want to give him up (I really don't read any horror at all besides him, and lots of his stuff isn't even horror), but that doesn't cover it at all. To choose that "genre" I'd need to select modern fiction/lit, science fiction, and horror.... I guess I needed a sub-genre selection!
    Yes, it could be considered a genre.  We get asked for that kind of thing regularly- everything from Abbot (Flatland) to Zamiatin (We).
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,143
    non-fiction.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    Mysteries
    brianlux said:
    dankind said:
    10 is bullshit. We need @MedozK on this.

    Missing comic books/mangia/graphic novels; how-to; history; psychology/self-help; children's (young adult, picture books, chapter books, choose your own adventure, etc.); reference; business; politics; criticism; erotica; essays; humor....
    I know!  Only 10 meant that I had to eliminate Automotive Repair Manuals and other hugely popular categories.  :anguished:
    :lol: 
    Cookbooks are popular in my house....judging by the spiderwebs. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    edited March 2018
    Science/Nature/Outdoor Adventure
    RogueStoner said:
    brianlux said:
    dankind said:
    10 is bullshit. We need @MedozK on this.

    Missing comic books/mangia/graphic novels; how-to; history; psychology/self-help; children's (young adult, picture books, chapter books, choose your own adventure, etc.); reference; business; politics; criticism; erotica; essays; humor....
    I know!  Only 10 meant that I had to eliminate Automotive Repair Manuals and other hugely popular categories.  :anguished:
    :lol: 
    Cookbooks are popular in my house....judging by the spiderwebs. 
    LOL that is funny.. but wait!  You're not alone!  My wife has co-owned a used bookstore for 36 years and reads a lot of different kinds of stuff but the subject of books of which she has the most?  Yep, COOKBOOKS!  She has probably about 15 linear feet of 7 foot high shelving with nothing but cookbooks. Hundreds and hundreds of cookbooks. One bookcase alone that is about 26" wide and 6 feet high is nothing but Christmas cookbooks.  All different!  You might say she is really into cookbooks!  :lol:

    Oh, and I might add, I have three cookbooks which I hardly ever use.  And I do at least half the cooking around here.
    C. freely admits that too :lol:
    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    Best Sellers (Clancy, Patterson, etc.)
    Of the choices, I guess it would be best sellers. I enjoy reading John Grisham and Brad Meltzer stories.

    My favorite would be Chuck Klosterman. Not sure what genre he really fits into though. Sociology perhaps?
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    edited March 2018
    Biographies
    dankind said:
    10 is bullshit. We need @MedozK on this.

    Missing comic books/mangia/graphic novels; how-to; history; psychology/self-help; children's (young adult, picture books, chapter books, choose your own adventure, etc.); reference; business; politics; criticism; erotica; essays; humor....
    lol, yea I need History... but of the ones listed. I guess I am in the minority with Bios.

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