Have your book-tastes changed over the years? More fiction? Less? Books that are darker and more serious? Lighter and more frivolous? Challenging? Easy? How-to books over novels? Mysteries over Romance?
Oh my goodness yes! I used to only read non-fiction and memoirs. Now I read a lot more fiction. I also read more than I did ten years ago. I would say that the books I've been reading are more challenging since I've been reading more classic literature. I still don't read many grocery-store novels, mysteries, romance, etc but that doesn't mean that I won't start someday. I've been enjoying my time with fiction but I usually read a non-fiction book alongside the fiction. I think this keeps me a little grounded in my reading. In general, I just don't know what I would do without a good book.
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- Becoming Gentlemen by Lani Guinier
- America Declares Independence by Alan Dershowitz
- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
- Hide & Seek: Intelligence, Law Enforcement and the Stalled War on Terrorist Finance by John Cassara
- Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt
- Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
- Discover your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen
- The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
- Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman
- Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
- The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti
- The Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin Cardozo
- The Law by Frederick Bastiat
- Yakuza Moon by Shoko Tendo
- Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom
- Decline of American Power by Immanuel Wallerstein
- How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson
- America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
- Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
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5 comments:
I am reading a lot less. But better books. Previously I used to read 20-25 books in a month. Now I read 8-15.
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What theme's do your non-fiction readings follow?
I typically have a non-fiction book going the same time I'm reading a novel. I may not read the non-fiction every day like the fiction, but I like the change at times. It just takes me longer to get through the NF. I also like memoirs.
i have gone in the other direction. used to read more fiction, now i read more non-fiction.
and when i read fiction, it is genre fiction. i started out reading genres when i was a kid/teenager then moved on to literature and literary fiction now i am back to mysteries and romances. altho, non-fiction travel, biographies, science and ecology interest me most
R.E.--My non-fiction themes usually involve economics, world affairs, philosophy, women's issues, a lot really. I'm reading an interpretation of the Declaration of Independence currently.
M--I just can't get into genre lit! I haven't really tried though...
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