[IMAMONKEY!]

This is just a poll that I've been wondering about. The trick is once you vote state one book of that genre so I can gain examples. Basically what I'm doing is gaining a list of summer reading books but I thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone likes here.

[Tormod]

This really ought to be a multiple choice poll!

My favorite category is science fiction but I also read tons of popular science books.

[InfiniteNow]

I can't read. Sorry, I won't be of much help to your exercise, but wish you nothing but the best.

Illititerate is not commnunicating with a sequence of words that all begin with the same sound.


Kidding aside, I suggest the following (probably the book that has thus far impacted me the most):
Black Holes and Time Warps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also page regarding it's author:
Kip Thorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Racoon]

Concerning fiction books, Classics are my favorite..

Anything Dickens and Steinbeck. If its an old classic, and I've heard of the book, or its author, I'll give it a shot.



I also enjoy biographies and philosophy books

[Heresiarch]

Speculative philosophy and theology. There the ideas range most wildly. Whitehead, Hartshorne . . . that sort of thing.

[maikeru]

Historical fiction now. Try I, Claudius by Robert Graves. Purportedly written by a Caesar!

My other favorites are SF and fantasy, but I don't read as much of either as I did before. Now, I read whatever interests me.

[Buffy]

I put down "nonfiction" because that's mostly what I've been reading recently: science, history, politics, essays.

I like fiction too, but I'd hardly catagorize what I like as "realistic" or "scifi" or "fantasy" although its up to you to disagree that my faves are in any of these categories: Faulkner, Kafka, Brautigan, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Tom Robbins....

My mother is a fish,
Buffy

[Pyrotex]

Up until I was 40 or so, practically all I read was Science Fiction, with the very rare exception of an occassional bodice ripper. The amount of SF that I have read, and still remember, is staggering.

Then, I believe it was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid that switched me over to non-fiction. From then on, I have been buying books on history, brain-science, Pulitzer non-fiction, bios, cosmology, astronomy, chaos, computer theory, paleontology, evolution, philosophy, systems theory. And bodice rippers.

"The Dilbert Principle"

[maikeru]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Up until I was 40 or so, practically all I read was Science Fiction, with the very rare exception of an occassional bodice ripper. The amount of SF that I have read, and still remember, is staggering.

Then, I believe it was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid that switched me over to non-fiction. From then on, I have been buying books on history, brain-science, Pulitzer non-fiction, bios, cosmology, astronomy, chaos, computer theory, paleontology, evolution, philosophy, systems theory. And bodice rippers.

"The Dilbert Principle"

I have GED but not read it yet. I think I must still be living in the dark. Must rectify the situation...

[steph_r]

I'll go with realistic fiction, though non-fiction comes as a close second.
With fiction, I like to delve into crime-fiction mostly, generally ones that go into the science behind it all, like forensics and such.
Non-fiction... well, anything that's interesting floats my boat.