NetGalley Addicts Support Group discussion

Sometimes I find myself on NetGalley browsing the romance or the new adult sections.

What are some of your favorite genres?

I like Young Adult books, realistic fiction.

I tend to stick in the middle grade/YA section looking at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi reads.

Literature and adult fiction.

Mystery and some adult fiction but mostly mystery.

Romance: New Adult, YA and Erotica are usually what I look for.

I prefer romantic suspense that are heavy on the suspense. I like authors like Karen Rose and Laura Griffin. It seems like most of the books feature serial killers and I take a break from killers by reading Chic-Lit.

Crime, Psychological Thrillers, Horror are my top three genres.

Ok so I have to amend my preferred genre(s) and add Romantic Suspense and Psychological Thrillers!!

Anything that comes under the mystery/crime section, history, and literary fiction.

Do you all request equally from each genre? I find i try to keep my history requests to the ones i absolutely HAVE to have as they take much longer to read and review.

I like historical fiction, psychological thrillers, literature, non fiction and memoirs, probably in that order :)

History/historical fiction. It's pretty much the only thing I read anymore, so I'm not actually a request addict like some of you :) I'm very select about what I request.

I have to browse by publisher usually. They desperately need a "horror" category but, for some unknown reason, refuse to create one.

Bark's Book Nonsense wrote: "I have to browse by publisher usually. They desperately need a "horror" category but, for some unknown reason, refuse to create one."

Yeah I wish they had a historical fiction category too, because although they have a History category, publishers randomly decide whether this includes fiction or not. But I just check the generic Literature and Fiction category and hunt for historicals.

Robin wrote: "Bark's Book Nonsense wrote: "I have to browse by publisher usually. They desperately need a "horror" category but, for some unknown reason, refuse to create one."

Yeah I wish they had a historical..."

I'm like you Robin when I hunt for historical fiction I look in history and literature and fiction.

I read a lot of historical fiction too. It would be nice to have a special category for it. Sometimes you can tell by looking at the cover, but not always.

i like psychological thrillers, crime, but will read anything that sounds interesting

Mystery, thriller and fiction. And I love YA
No romance, horror or paranormal for me.

I went through a bought of really loving NA, but it lost its luster. Primarily I read YA, all genres. For adult, I love quirky murder mystery, fantasy, and lite sci-fi.

History, fictional or non.

Fiction, women fiction, thriller, I get drawn to certain subjects instead of genres

paranormal, si-fi fantasy

History and YA are my favorites, but things are so often poorly categorized. I really wish they'd separate history from historical fiction and mystery novels from true crime. More than one time I've requested a book thinking it was non-fiction and being wrong, or vice versa.

Epic fantasy, hi-tech thrillers, various fiction and non-fiction with an odd bent.

I like 'thinking' books, mostly, where I learn or pick up a new perspective.

Mysteries, thrillers, women's fiction, historical fiction...

WWII historical fiction has been my favorite for the past few years. Most fiction interests me. Sometimes a good ghost story gets my heart pumping.

I have certain ones listed on my profile over there but let's see what my favorite ones are by what I've actually read:

Action & Adventure - 2
Asexual Fiction - 1
Bisexual Fiction - 2
CC or Graphic* - 3
Fantasy - 3
Gay (MM) Fiction - 1
Historical Fiction - 2
History - 1
Humor - 3
Lesbian Fiction - 9
LGBT - 13
Mystery - 4
Nonfiction - 3
Pop-culture - 1
Romance - 7
Science Fantasy - 1
Science Fiction - 1
Superhero Prose - 1
Transgender Fiction - 1
Young Adult - 3

* Comic strip collection or graphic novel

So, LGBT, Lesbian Fiction, Romance.

Lexxi--did you generate your list manually?

DJ Zippergirl wrote: "Lexxi--did you generate your list manually?"

Yes - I have a shelf called 'netgalley' and I went down and added a '1' for each genre I ran across. I've only read something around 20 books through NetGalley so relatively easy for me to do.

I need to create a NetGalley shelf (and make sure I put all of my relevant books on it, which is my downfall :-)).

I generally go for women's/general fiction chick-lit, and romance, but I'm also persuaded by an intriguing cover/blurb combination or an excited recommendation from someone else regarding other genres.

My favourite genre is historical fiction....sadly I don't see an option to browse that category anywhere on NetGalley....I browse History, but often come up with nonfiction books.... I have found historical fiction mixed among the general fiction category, but I'd love to see a category just for historical fiction.

I keep looking for subtle sci-fi, magic realism type books on NetGalley, looking for one that will blow my socks off the way The Golem and the Djinni did - but this is a VERY new genre for me and I'm afraid of reading non-heavily reviewed books in this category - I've tried and found a lot of flops, so I don't browse it often.

General adult fiction is where you'll find me most often....but that would change if there was a historical fiction option ! :)

TamElaine wrote: "subtle sci-fi, magic realism type books ..."

I'm a sucker for magic realism, too. We all know there's a little magic in the world.

Did you read The Fairy Wren

Not NG but fun and free for review right now:

Modern Surprises from a GR author (light sci-fi/time travel)

I like general adult fiction, chick-lit as of late, middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels. I'm usually not too picky, but have found I'm not into historical fiction much.

here's my list:
Biographies & Memoirs
Children's Fiction
Erotica
History
Horror
LGBTQIA
Mystery & Thrillers
New Adult
Nonfiction (Adult)
Romance
Sci Fi & Fantasy
Teens & YA

Romance, historical fiction and historical murder mystery, YA fantasy, urban fantasy, chick-lit, erotica

TamElaine wrote: "My favourite genre is historical fiction....sadly I don't see an option to browse that category anywhere on NetGalley....I browse History, but often come up with nonfiction books.... I have found h..."

Hi, I have been trying to get an historical fiction section in NetGalley. Maybe if a few of us write to them via Tarah in the Help section, they might make another category. I think part of the problem is that the author sometimes may request to be in a certain category.I'm going to write that note now!

I only have one favorite genre and that is mystery/thriller. There's plenty to interest me in that alone.

Horror (so glad they finally added it!)
LGBTQIA
Erotica
Romance

Dorie, I went and voted for Historical Fiction. I know you've wanted it for a long time. :-)

As long as they keep offering fantasy and thrillers, I'm good.

Wonder when they will let us know the new category that they selected?

The ones i'm most likely to browse are
Horror
LGBTQIA
Sci-fi & Fantasy
Teens & YA
Mystery & Thrillers

Mystery, suspense, thriller - and some erotica

YA and Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sometimes I check out LGBT+

The fiction genres I usually read are:
Thriller
Mystery
Literary
Historical
Women's

I always seem to navigate to historical fiction.

I like medical mysteries, Conan Doyle mysteries, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Holocaust stories (YA and adult), medical stories, adoption/foster care stories, YA fiction, science fiction, animal legends. In short, anything except pure romance.

I like reading mystery & thrillers, young adult, fantasy & chick lit books.

Cozy mysteries with a little non-fiction thrown in.

I love dystopia.

Fantasy and science fiction mostly. Read a lot of elementary aged books as well.