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I saw the results of a Reader’s Digest poll which shows the most popular book genre in each state: These Are the Most Popular Book Genres in Every State in 2025

I was wondering which genre would be the favorite of the Spiceworks community. And so I created a poll:

  • Fiction
  • Action and adventure
  • Beach reads
  • Classics
  • Coming of age
  • Dark academia
  • Domestic fiction
  • Dystopian
  • Erotica
  • Fairy tale
  • Family drama
  • Fantasy
  • Graphic novel
  • Historical fiction
  • Horror
  • LGBTQ+
  • Literary fiction
  • Magical realism
  • Mystery
  • Novels in verse
  • Romance
  • Satire
  • Science fiction
  • Short story
  • Thriller
  • Time travel
  • Women’s fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Art and photography
  • Autobiography
  • Biographies
  • Cookbooks
  • Essays
  • How-to guides
  • Humor
  • Memoir
  • Narrative nonfiction
  • Poetry
  • Religion and spirituality
  • Self-help
  • Travel
  • True crime
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BTW, if you’re looking for some dramatic graphic novels, we have some! Eaton children’s book collection

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Really hard to just put one.

EDIT: I put Fiction, but read plenty of non-fiction, horror, humor, classics, all over the board really.

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It’s been a minute since I read a book. My eyesight is only slightly better than my hearing. :joy::pensive_face:

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I like Star Trek books, some of the newer ones based shortly after Generations read so good I could swear they are an episode. I also like any thing “survival” based, be it against nature, or zombies, plague. Robinson Crusoe is my favorite that I have read multiple times, SFR is good and I’ve read it aloud twice. I have the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but havent started it. I know Friday dies and I’m not ready for that sadness in my life.

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I just finished, “God Emperor of Dune” and am now listening to “Heretics of Dune”.

“Chapter House: Dune”, “Hunters of Dune”, and “Sandworms of Dune” are already downloaded and queued.

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I agree, I like many genres. First is Science Fiction/Fantasy. Then it depends on what catches my fancy as to what I will listen to next. I have about 6 G of audiobooks. That does not include my audible library.

A couple series I recommend:

  • The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  • The Looking Glass Series by John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor
    Ringo is a former member of the elite 82nd Airborne Division and Taylor is a real-life rocket scientist

My note: listening to the series I was in awe. Yes, the technology was not within our current reach. However, what they described made sense. It was unnerving

For D&D Fans:

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  • Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests by Neven Iliev

History:

  • The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman

Horror/Dystopian:

  • Anything from H.P. Lovecraft
  • Anything from Phillip K. Dick
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I can’t really choose between sci-fi and fantasy, and then there’s the ones that are a mix of both those

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I selected Sci-Fi, but it’s mostly Star Wars books. The only other genre I read are IT study materials.

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I chose graphic novel since that’s mostly what I read now (Saga is my current favorite). But I read a lot of true crime books when I was younger and would probably still enjoy them.

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I’ve been a Sci-Fi fan since I read “A Wrinkle In Time” in 4th grade. Actually, it started with “Star Wars” when I was 7 (the movie - it was years before I read the book).

Like others have said, I also enjoy books that mix in Fantasy, and straight up fantasy. I’m also a fan of a lot of the YA fiction (SF/Fantasy & General) of the last 12 years or so.

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I don’t see technical documentation or security blog posts as options…

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I am all over the place. I mostly listen to audiobooks when I am driving (great way to pass the time).
I enjoyed suspense books when I was younger, but mostly only stuck to one writer. I also read the Harry Potter Books as they came out.
When I started listening to audiobooks, I got into Star Wars books narrated by Marc Thompson.
Lately, I am all over. I have done the Wheel of Time series (Fantasy) to the Silo series (Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction) of books. I do love the Bobiverse series (scifi in space) and hope for more to come out.
I am always looking for good recommendations of book series since I usually don’t go back very often.

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@GeorgeSVFC I have the Wrinkle in Time series in my audiobook collection.
@titusovermyer I gave up on Robert Jordan after the third book in the series. Now there are 14 books.

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I agree that there were some books that were kind of rough. I will say that the last 3 were fantastic. When I go back and listen to them, I am reminded about how much world building there was and it did come to a finality that was (for the most part), satisfying.

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The last ones were written by Brandon Sanderson after Robert Jordan died. Good stuff.

But my favorite of all is Sci-Fi, and it looks like that is an overall preference for the community, at least so far. :slight_smile:

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Horror in general. Stephen King in specific

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In the past…there were these books called “choose your own adventure”…

Its like after reading page 1, then you may have 2 or 3 choices of what you want to do…then turn to the corresponding page…

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I’m a sci-fi guy, but surpringly the first novel I’ve written was fantasy. For those interested, you can read a first-draft here:

And unlike YouTube, I don’t get paid for reads on that ). However, I would appreciate it if you would subscribe (it’s free), because the more digital attention it gets, the easier it is to get a publisher to engage a contract for it.

Thanks ))

T

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Those were great books.

Interestingly, I think one of the books was inspired by a letter that I wrote to the publishers. I told them that one of the endings was impossible to get to because the page number was wrong on one of the pages.

They wrote back and sent me a free book, and mentioned that they hadn’t realized that some of us were going through and finding pages that we had never gotten to… which is what inspired the later book where one of the endings you intentionally couldn’t get to unless you found it without making one of the obvious normal choices.

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After growing up reading science fiction, I pretty much read history books now. I believe it started by reading about the real space program instead of fictional programs, and found reality far more interesting. That morphed into American history, and then into any history that piques my interest.

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