What percentage of the books that you read in a year are sf or fantasy

[Joseph]

Currently it's almost 100% fantasy with occasional side jaunts into SF. And there are a couple of horror or mystery writers I follow, but I don't read the genres per se.

[Cheryl]

Probably about 95%. The other 5% is usually mystery, horror or thrillers.

[[deleted user]]

Most of what I read is fantasy and scifi, but I do like spy novels and romances (especially historical. It is difficult to give a percentage value to the genres, but it bothers me when I haven't finished reading a book in a particular genre for some time, so I am on track to use the following alternating pattern: fantasy, suspense, scifi, romance, fantasy...

[Jeffrey]

Maurice

I like you like a variety and I try to move around a lot. I rarely read two or more books of the same genre in a row. Sometimes its a necessity, but your alternating patter, minus the romance I guess but filling in with mystery, thriller etc is pretty close to me

[Elizabeth]

Jeffrey wrote: "So far this year I have read 67 books, of which about 38 books that can be considered sf or fantasy or one of the subgenres. This equals out to about 56% of the books that I have read this year.
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Err....100%. I don't buy into subgenres. Either a book is fantasy or science fiction or it aint. As long as a books got some fantasical elements I'll normally give it a go. Last book I read that wasn't fantasy was Angels and Demons by Dan Brown about two years ago. Oh god I really am an uber geek aren't I?

[Jim]

Elizabeth, I remember a topic one time where a person made a good point for SF being a subgenre of fantasy. FTL travel is as magical as a dragon or something like that.

As for 'Angels & Demons', doesn't the core of the novel rely on Christian mythology? Isn't mythology the basis of most fantasy? Why wouldn't A&D be considered fantasy?
;-)

[Elizabeth]

Hi Jim,
That's a good point. I suppose I only really think of something being fantasy if it's set in a different world to ours. Or at least contains creatures or people from other worlds. Have you read Naomi Novik's work? Her books are set during the Napoleanic wars but have dragons in them. This kind of fantasy seems to be very popular at the moment.

[Jim]

I read the first 3 of Novik's Temair (?) books. I have 5, but stopped. I didn't care for the 3d much. My wife read all of them & liked them, though.