SFF Week on Goodreads

[YouKneeK]

From the top-50 lists, I’ve read 20 from the Science Fiction list and 21 from the Fantasy list. Several of the other books are on my to-read list.

There isn’t anything too surprising about the lists. It’s mostly a combination of books that have gotten a lot of buzz in recent years, as well as older classics that have been influential to the genres. I admit I rolled my eyes a bit when I saw Red Rising, but I wasn’t surprised to see it. Of the ones I’ve read, I definitely wouldn’t list all of them as personal favorites, but there are some I would.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

YouKneeK wrote: "I admit I rolled my eyes a bit when I saw Red Rising, but I wasn’t surprised to see it."

I was curious so I read some reviews of Red Rising. Definite hard pass.

[Bobby]

colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "YouKneeK wrote: "I admit I rolled my eyes a bit when I saw Red Rising, but I wasn’t surprised to see it."

I was curious so I read some reviews of Red Rising. Definite hard pass."

Haha that's one of my all time favorites and I was happy to see it there. To each their own.

[Anne]

Science fiction: read 15, 21 on TBR (I have a hard copy of most of these)

Fantasy: read 29, DNF 1 (The Golem and the Jinni), 12 on TBR (I also have a hard copy of most of these)

I didn't really see any books I'd want to add to my TBR. I do not read PNR, and I rarely read graphic novels.

[Dawn]

My count was - Sci-fi = 9 / Fantasy = 10

Which was actually more than I expected as I've only just started to delve into these genres.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of them were graphic novels (glad to see those on the lists)
I have a lot of the titles on my TBR stacks though - so the numbers should rise before long :)

[Robyn]

I've read 15 of the fantasy (with a further 9 already on my TBR) and 7 of the sci-fi (with another 9 on my TBR). I'm actually surprised how many I've read of the most popular fantasy! I'm always wary of reading older sci-fi novels as I don't tend to enjoy them as much, so the fact I haven't read as many of the sci-fi doesn't surprise me.

It's interesting seeing the apparently most popular sci-fi and fantasy books though - some of them I really didn't expect, particularly on the fantasy list!

[MadProfessah]

I don’t think of myself as much of a fantasy fan (I’ll pick it up if there’s no immediate sci-fi or space opera around) but I found that I have read 20 of the fantasy books on the top 50 Goodreads list.

[Dawn F]

Same with me, MadProfessah, and yet I’ve read the same amount of each, seven sci fi and seven fantast books. Odd, since I’ve definitely read a lot more science fiction, they’re just not on that particular list XD

[Udayan]

35 on sci-fi list, 31 on Fantasy !!

I really need to read some other genres :)

Tbh, some really random choices in the fantasy section.

[Esther]

I have read 19 of the scifi and 11 of the fantasy which seems logical and there is a similar quantity I have marked as for my TBR.
However for each I have only 2 purchased but not yet read which is a contrast to the piles of literary fiction have on my shelves bought on a whim but for which I never quite have time.

[Maarit]

I've read 19 books on the scifi list and 5 books are on my TBR list. On the fantasy list (which is kinda random) I've read 15 books and 4 books are on my TBR list.

I was actually a bit surprised to see that I've read more scifi than fantasy books, because I've always been more of a fantasy person than scifi and only in resent years have I started reading more scifi. But on the other hand there were kinda many books in the fantasy list that I had never even heard of, so it might explain something in this case.