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Your favorite genre(s)?

 

Okay. Here’s your chance to register your favorite (fiction) genres. Tell your reader/writer friends to take this little survey. Leave your favorite or list your favorites if there is more than one in the comments. I might miss some so feel free to add those. Ready? Go!

 

1.Action/Adventure

 

2.Bonnet Books (Amish/Mennonite/etc.)

 

3.Catastrophic/End of Days

 

4.Contemporary

 

5.Contemporary Romance

 

6.Fantasy (Adult, YA, Middle Grade)

 

7.Fun/Humor/“Lits”

 

8.Gangster (Contemporary or Historical)

 

9.Historical (Specify time periods)

 

10.Historical Romance (Specify time periods)

 

11.Horror

 

12.Legal

 

13.Literary (Feel free to define this for others as you see it)

 

14.Medical

 

15.Military

 

16.Mystery

 

17.Police Procedural (Contemporary or Historical)

 

18.Political

 

19.Private Investigator (Contemporary or Historical)

 

20.Science Fiction

 

21.Spy

 

22.Supernatural Suspense

 

23.Suspense

 

24.Thrillers (General; i.e. political, spy, serial killer, medical, etc.)

 

25.Women’s Fiction (Contemporary or Historical. Also feel free to define it as you see it.)

 

26.Zany

 

You may give titles/authors for examples if you’re having difficulty classifying your favorites into categories.

 

 

God, thank you for all your writers and the creative abilities you give them. Thank you especially for those who wish to acknowledge it’s all about you. Bless each one for their efforts to honor you in their writing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

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6 responses to “Your favorite genre(s)?”

  1. Brenda Jackson Avatar
    Brenda Jackson

    In order:
    Historical NON-Romance (note: I break with industry definitions here–there seems to be historical romance (all romance) and historical (a lot romance). I prefer historicals where romance doesn’t gobble up plot space. This is something I can’t explain because unless you’ve read a historical and been disappointed that the story ignored interesting story threads to chase a romance, it won’t make sense to you).
    I do have to give a thumbs up to Sarah Sundin for her WWII books which DO have romance in them. Also Kay Marshall Strom, whose book “The Call of Zulina” is the only non-romance historical I found to read last year. As to time periods, favorite is 19th century America, and despite what detractors say, much of this time period and it’s story possibilities STILL have not been covered adequately.
    Literary: I’m finding that I enjoy the literary classics more than commercial fiction for the most part. While I don’t know how their books are classified, I think of Athol Dickson and Jane Kirkpatrick along these lines as well.
    Suspense/thriller: James Scott Bell comes to mind. Try Dying was way cool. Also recently read a Richard Mabry medical suspense which I enjoyed. Would probably read more in this category but it’s hard to find time to drill down and find stuff that is interesting but not too far over in objectionable content (and there are subsets of this, such as intense serial killer type stuff, that I don’t want to read).
    Military: i.e. Jeff Struecker/Alton Gansky type books. Love that stuff.
    Action Adventure
    Sci-Fi (only in terms of the 70’s when there were a lot of good Star Trek books on the market). But there haven’t been any good Trek books for a lot of years now.

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  2. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    Thanks so much, Brenda. I’ll revamp the list to include military. I love military–how could I forget military?! Don Brown’s books are great.

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  3. Brenda Anderson Avatar
    Brenda Anderson

    Love this topic, Nicole. 🙂
    Literary fiction is my favorite–as long as it has a good story to go along with the beautiful prose. Athol Dickson, River Jordan, Dale Cramer, Charles Martin, Mary DeMuth, Christa Parrish, Chris Fabry are some of my favorites. I’d throw in Laura Frantz too. She’s technically a historical romance writer, but she tells her story in literary form that I love.
    Complex Suspense/thriller. To me, Steven James is by far the best. Tim Downs is up there too. In the general market I really enjoy Michael Connelly & William Kent Krueger. I generally don’t care for suspense written by women. It’s typically not as complex and the romance is too mushy for me. Amy Wallace is one author who rises above that. To me, she’s the best female writer of suspense in the CBA. I’d put Sibella Giorello up there too.
    Military/GeoPolitical. I’m with Brenda J on this. Love the Struecker/Gansky series. I also enjoy Mel Odom’s NCIS series, and the Elam/Yohn series. And, of course, I can’t forget Vince Flynn.
    Women’s contemporary fiction (What I write) when it’s done well, but too much of it relies on stereotype & melodrama. Lisa Samson and Susan Meissner write this well. Bette Nordberg wrote one of my favorite books, A SEASON OF GRACE. I have no clue how she managed to get that published in the CBA.
    I’m not big on speculative, but I’ll read anything by Tosca Lee & Robin Parrish. I also really enjoyed Mike Duran’s The Resurrection.

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  4. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    Thank you, Brenda (A.), for contributing. I knew I’d get a good list from you, too. 😉 I need to read a Charles Martin novel.

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  5. Jerri L Ledford Avatar
    Jerri L Ledford

    I’ll read just about anything that I can get my hands on, but by far, my favorite is suspense in all of it’s forms. It’s not the gore I’m after, it’s the thrill of the hunt. I so desire to be one of those suspense authors that readers just can’t put down.
    Having said that, I will add this caveat. There are times when my taste in reading changes. Sometimes I’ll have a deep desire to read a romance or an early American series, or Amish, or sci-fi, or whatever else there might be. I attribute it to growing up with a vast availability of books. In the end, though, a good suspense is like coming home.

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  6. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    Love suspense too, Jerri.
    I’ve got some absolute No Ways: all Bonnet Books, all Fantasy, and most Historicals.

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