What kinds of books do you like to read?

[Kyriakos]

I ussually read either fiction or philosophy, with the odd mathematical book
My collection mostly has books from greek, french, german, russian, english and american authors, and most titles are general fiction, with horror being a motif in a minority of the titles.
You can also name authors whose work covers a sizable part of your library. In my case these are Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nietzsche, De Maupassant, Baudelaire and Meyrink. In the case of Kafka i have the complete collection of his works, along with all the published letters

And you?

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I like road trip books (IE Books about road trips), and short stories.

 

[Masquerouge]

In no particular order, science-fiction, fantasy, scientific stuff, novels.

 

[DNK]

Non-fiction.

 

[Mad Man]

Comics,Encyclopedias,Magazines and those Have You Seen ME things.

 

[Firstlady]

Fiction.

I love fiction. I'm a novel kind of person.

Romance, science fiction, and fantasy are my favorites.

 

[holy king]

novels. of all kinds.

 

[Masquerouge]

Oooh I forgot: graphic novels. Huge fan.

 

[Fifty]

By how many I own, with subgroups:

-Philosophy
----Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
----Great Dead Philosophers
-Literature (by "Classic" below I mean "part of the Western canon")
----Classic novels
----Classic short stories
----Classic poetry
----Criticism
----Classic Plays
----Non-Classics
-Math/Science
-History
-Economics/Politics
-Law
-Other (couple books on classical music, etc. etc.)

 

[Agent327]

Non-fiction, focusing on history and historical biography mostly (all eras and areas), poetry. (Latest read: Alexander Blok, Poems, a bilingual edition of selected poems.)

I read the occasional novel. (Latest read: Tolstoi's War and Peace, the original version, which was interesting after a biography on Napoleon, as it partly covers the same time period - although I still prefer Anna Karenina.) I seem to have no particular taste in novels, as I've read historical novels, adventure - Karl May, notably -, thrillers, sci-fi and short stories of various nature.)

Also, I have a nice little collection of philosophical works, ranging from Heraclitus to Wittgenstein.

And ofcourse I am a sucker for comics.

 

[Kozmos]

History, weapon systems, fiction (both fantasy & SF, classic and modern) and few other stuff, mostly political or philosophical books.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Almost exclusively history, these days.

 

[Phlegmak]

What kinds of books do you like to read?

Horror fiction
Any fiction that's pre-1900
Any nonfiction that's pre-1900
A little modern nonfiction. For example, I read a book on torture techniques and equipment
Comics

 

[Cutlass]

Fantasy novels, Sci-fi, history, biography, economics, science.

 

[Till]

Ordered by number of books owned:

Fiction:
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Classic novels
Contemporary novels

Non fiction:
History
Technical Informatics
Computer Vision
Machine Intelligence

The non fiction section would look different, if papers/proceedings were counted as books.

 

[scherbchen]

anything as long as the prose is done well (this includes coherence and cohesion as well as being entertaining).

 

[Kennigit]

I haven't been able to read recently, but I've always enjoyed science fiction (short stories and novels) and some fantasy. I've really wanted to try to catch up on "classic" novels or really well known novels, like aforementioned War and Peace and etc.

I have been drawn to the dystopian novels, such as 1984, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, etc.

 

[Perfection]

Pop up books!

 

[Gooblah]

Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Comics (specifically Calvin and Hobbes and Asterix)

 

[WICKLC1]

science fiction, actual science, history, and spy novels.