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cremepat OP t1_j5mtwz9 wrote

Reply to comment by notreallyanumber in Books I read in 2022 [OC] by cremepat

I did the genre selection myself—out of curiosity, what did you hate about it?

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notreallyanumber t1_j5n60tm wrote

Memoir is nonfiction, so is True Crime. Why separate them and not other subgenres of nonfiction? Seems arbitrary, but I suppose you're tailoring your genres based on the number of books you read so that's fine I guess...

Distinguishing between Literary Fiction and Genre Fiction seems elitist and snobby.

Meanwhile you have SciFi and Fantasy as a single genre instead of the two distinct genres that they are, but they also both count as Genre Fiction, do they not?

In summary, the term Literary Fiction just pisses me off because who gets to decide what is and isn't "Literary"?! And then you have two genres squashed together, another genre that subsumes that two-in-one, and then a third genre that subsumes your last two genres. It all just rubs me the wrong way.

I hope you don't take offense, because none was meant. Maybe the graph doesn't work with a less arbitrary genre selection? Anyway, you asked why!

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cremepat OP t1_j5or7uh wrote

My thought process: I wanted to color by genre, but I needed to group them into categories to reduce the number of colors. Prob not obvious, but the warm colors are fiction and cool colors are nonfiction. I pulled out the subgenres I read the most of and lumped the rest into broad buckets.

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