Do politicians' memoirs count as fiction? (I could name a list of a few that should.)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you asked me to choose a book I will pick nonfiction over fiction at least 90 percent of the time. Even my fiction choices tend to have some sort of Historical Significance -- off the top of my head, the most recent works of fiction I've read were Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (Satan visits the Soviet Union), Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now (thinly veiled satire on Victorian financial and political intrigue), and Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward (cancer as metaphor for Soviet power). And that doesn't seem to be changing much if I look at my book queue.
If I had to give a reason why, I think it's because (a) I do a lot of historical research on my own time, and (b) I get my fiction fix through manga and anime. I suppose I should have considered (b) more when making my radio button choice, since it would make my choices more equal, but I consider manga/anime a slightly separate genre from the standard dead-tree book reading.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you asked me to choose a book I will pick nonfiction over fiction at least 90 percent of the time. Even my fiction choices tend to have some sort of Historical Significance -- off the top of my head, the most recent works of fiction I've read were Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (Satan visits the Soviet Union), Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now (thinly veiled satire on Victorian financial and political intrigue), and Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward (cancer as metaphor for Soviet power). And that doesn't seem to be changing much if I look at my book queue.
If I had to give a reason why, I think it's because (a) I do a lot of historical research on my own time, and (b) I get my fiction fix through manga and anime. I suppose I should have considered (b) more when making my radio button choice, since it would make my choices more equal, but I consider manga/anime a slightly separate genre from the standard dead-tree book reading.