Showing posts with label genres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genres. Show all posts

3 July 2010

Defining your favourite crime fiction

There are many ways of looking at crime fiction, but I want you to look at the last 20 or so books you've read and count up whether they are
  • detective fiction
  • police procedural
  • psychological suspense
  • thriller
  • spy story
  • cozy
  • whodunnit
  • whydunnit
How many on your list don't fall into any of those categories?
Which category "wins" on your list?
If you go to the library or book shop what do you generally look for?

So be brave, vote in the poll in the right hand column, and then leave a comment about your choice.

In my own case it was a narrow win by "detective fiction" with 8 votes from "police procedural" on 7, then thriller, and finally cozy.

I guess when I start a new book I am happy if it is either one of those two types.

Now I got these categories out of a Wikipedia article and the problem is that many of them are overlapping.
Perhaps you can suggest a better list to run a poll on.

13 February 2010

How many fiction genres do you read?

In the right hand column you will find this week's poll, and I invite you to both take the poll and leave a comment below.

I read almost exclsuively (99.9%) crime fiction, but I recognise that many of my friends and fellow bloggers read far more broadly than I do.

A Wikipedia article defines the following genres for the novel:
To that list I would add historical but what other novel genres have I missed?
Which do you read? Which do you like best?

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