and why sometimes I don't even look at it for weeks at a time, is that I see so many good books here that I know I need to read. One of my problems is that I'm interested in almost everything. Non fiction is anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of what I read. Right now of the 11 books I have checked out of the library, 7 are non fiction. Having four fiction books checked out at once is unusual for me.
And in fiction I read quite widely. I tend mostly to identify as a science fiction reader, and I actually have relatively narrow interests in that field. Fantasy does nothing for me, to which I say fortunately because there's so very much fantasy out there. Zombies, werewolves, urban fantasy all do nothing for me. I like a lot of hard science fiction and I especially love time travel and alternate history. There's plenty to read in those two alone.
What I do like is finding an author whose work I like. Jo Walton is a mixed bag for me, because some of her stuff is straight up fantasy, and I have zero interest in those. But a writer who writes widely herself is nice.