What Genre Of Book Do You NOT Read?!! Showing 951-1,000 of 1,017

[Loretta]

I don’t care for sappy romance, westerns, or science fiction. I do enjoy good suspense/thriller and historical fiction. I just love reading books!

[Kirsten]

Saswati wrote: "Hello everyone,

I am new to this group. I don’t like romantic novels, fictions or historical books. Moreover, I avoid vampires, werewolves, fantasy novels where stories are far fetched and not re..."

Doesn't leave much... except maybe non fiction in the present day.

[Jeffrey]

What don't I read? Fantasy, horror, romance, and most current science fiction. I think our preferences are set early in our reading lives and molded by our education. I read a lot of science fiction early in life - Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut - but haven't gotten motivated by recent novels. Oh, and no graphic novels, either.

[Christine]

Read my 1st mystery. Never read this genre before. I had fun but I probably won't read another one. Mysteries has a lot of characters for you to choose who done it and I just couldn't keep up with who are who. So at least I tried it, and I'm glad I did!!

[Jeffrey]

Christine wrote: "Read my 1st mystery. Never read this genre before. I had fun but I probably won't read another one. Mysteries has a lot of characters for you to choose who done it and I just couldn't keep up with ..."

Maybe I shouldn't pitch, but my psychological thriller, Undetected, isn't a "whodunit" with a passel of suspects but a "whydunnit." Think you might find it interesting...

[Mo]

romance

[Sonja]

Romance is almost always a pass. Sci-Fi is a broad category but I normally don't voluntarily pick up books set in space with aliens. Fantasy runs along that same line. Now if someone I know tells me I will like something within those settings, I will try it.

[Susan (the other Susan)]

I don’t rule anything out. Generally, I’m not a fan of science fiction, but in the hands of an author like Kazuo Ishiguro, it reels me in. Just finished Klara and the Sun.

[Aditya]

Romance - Too Cheesy.
Epic fantasy - Too long.

[Christine]

I use to love Historical fiction and for the life of me I cannot get interested in this genre any longer. I get completely bored when I try to read this genre. So I have given up on it for a while. I might try to read it again but for now I will just give it up.

[Cari]

Romance 👎🏻

[Kandice]

Cari wrote: "Romance 👎🏻"

I can't stand kissy books!

[Thomas]

Romance

[Dani]

Fantasy, sci-fi, romance. I used to read looots of romance when I was a teenager but now I just find the genre too cheesy lol

[PamG]

Most (but not all) horror and true crime.

[Ken]

gushy vampire romance. I think Vampires should scare me (Think Stephen King's Night flyer)

[Jeffrey]

Fantasy and romance. With all the books that are out there, why pick something you have no attraction to?

[Manny]

I am allergic to cozy mysteries...I totoally feel like gagging when I read a title of one and my skin begins to crawl...

[Christine]

Horror. I just can’t. Sleep inevitable eludes me.

[Maria]

Romance

[Emily]

Romance

[The___Jay]

Fantasy and science fiction with exceptions

[Peter]

I cannot do Western or historical books. I will literally fall asleep 1 minute in.

[[deleted user]]

That is hard to say because I read all over the map

I will try to get out of my comfort zone and read fantasy and I just can't get into it.

[John]

Fantasy and romance are on my 'banned' list.

But I do like sci-fi and some would say things like 'The Force' and FTL travel are fantasies so...

[Jeffrey]

I'm with John - fantasy and romance are non-starters, but there is certainly some sci-fi I read years ago that stayed with me - written by authors like Orwell, Huxley and Bradbury.

[Sean, Moderator]

I do not like

Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Vampires, Wolves, Old History

Enjoy

All thriller, biographies, true stories

[Kirsten]

Sean wrote: "I do not like

Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Vampires, Wolves, Old History

Enjoy

All thriller, biographies, true stories"

Do you mean the history book is old or it's about ancient history? And how old is too old?

[Sarah]

I’m not a big fan of horror, sci fi or fantasy

[Eric]

I typically avoid novels about serial killers (too overdone and too much focus on the fantasy of the brilliant and diabolical know it all killer) and novels involving children victims.

[David]

Eric wrote: "I typically avoid novels about serial killers (too overdone and too much focus on the fantasy of the brilliant and diabolical know it all killer) and novels involving children victims."

I agree with you about serial killer novels.

[Paula]

Romance,chicklit,cosy mysteries.

[Jenene]

Science fiction, horror, sappy romance (i.e., Harlequin :) )

[amber]

sci-fi and fantasy 😬

[Christine]

I really hate Historical books. But of course I read the Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes and fell in love in with the Historical Romance book. I think I just don't like books that takes place in WW2. I have read so many of them I am just sick of them and I will be staying away from them in the future. I'm glad though I have discovered that I do like some historical fiction. I hate not like a genre!

[Barbara]

I am not fond of dystopian, political fiction/thrillers, time travel or erotica, but it's more about what features I don't like. I don't like explicit violence, or violence against vulnerable people or against animals. I don't like long passages of show-off exposition where I feel like the author's cramming his doctoral thesis into a novel. I don't like books written in the present tense.

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

I will never ever read a book with a scantily clad tattooed person on the cover ;-).

[Mihika]

@Jannelies samee lol

[Mihika]

Not a fan of erotica, cheesy romances, fantasy, or classics written in archaic English

[Stephanie]

I never read Harlequin-type romance, "new adult" romance, or Christian Fiction. I rarely read sci-fi or fantasy. Although there are some exceptions that I've absolutely loved.

[Barbara]

Jannelies wrote: "I will never ever read a book with a scantily clad tattooed person on the cover ;-)."

I know! I would be too embarrassed to bring it up to the sales desk or the library desk.

[Barbara]

I used to love suspense fiction, slow building, page turning, nail biting suspense. But lately every suspense novel I pick up is just too dull, the writing is too homogenized (I couldn't tell you one author from another by the way they write) and either the "twist" is too obvious too soon, or the ending is a letdown. I add them to my list of books, but feel like I can't be bothered to even take the time to write a review.

[Kirsten]

Barbara wrote: "I used to love suspense fiction, slow building, page turning, nail biting suspense. But lately every suspense novel I pick up is just too dull, the writing is too homogenized (I couldn't tell you o..."

Even if I don't finish a book, I try to at least file a review saying why I didn't

[aimango]

Mihika wrote: "Not a fan of erotica, cheesy romances, fantasy, or classics written in archaic English"

Literally me! Especially YA/cheesy romance books and movies tend to make me very uncomfortable. Classics have such a glittering reputation but I can never make it through one because of the complex language!

One more to add: "deep" novels filled with hundreds of pages of fancy words and lengthy and boring passages. I really don't care what intelligent idea the book is a metaphor of if I can't even sit through half of it!

Edit: Scrolled through the thread a little more and I also agree with everyone who never read horror/gory books. I used to push myself to read horror manga, hoping I'd get over my scaredycat-ness...but at this point I just have to accept that, unless I want to lie awake for hours into the night with my night light on, I have to stop.
I would recommend Junji Ito's Cat Diary though! The drawings are disturbing but honestly... kinda cute.

[Angie]

Sappy Romance, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Political and Westerns

[Lilli Gilliam]

science fiction

[Sean, Moderator]

If you read through the posts

The most common are exactly the ones I do not like.

It seems the most of us do not like

Horror
Science Fiction
Vampires
Romance

[PamG]

I don't read much fiction in the genres of contemporary romance, literary fiction, classics, or horror.

Of course my favorites are thrillers, mysteries, and suspense novels of all types. However, I do read most other fiction genres. This includes those that many in this group don't enjoy such as science fiction, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense, historical fiction, dystopian/post-apocalyptic, and fantasy.

[Donne]

There's a few genres I don't read like horror stories or religious books. Oddly enough, I'm also not into true-crime stories even though my fave genres are murder mysteries and crime thrillers. It probably has more to do with the fact that I prefer fiction to non-fiction.

[Iris & the Old Bookshelf]

Science fiction