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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Read enough genre fiction? Why not try Literature?
 
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Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.
It's been pointed out before, but on these forums "genre" tends to become a shorthand for "genres that dudes read", and the underlying implication is that the only things people read for fun are scifi, fantasy, horror, detective novels, thrillers and historical drama. But to take the NYT bestseller list as an example, the top 5 is currently John Grisham, Delia Owens, Celeste Ng, Sally Rooney and Jennifer Weiner, of who the last four seem to balance between suspense, romance and literary fiction. I'm not familiar with any of the books, but book buyers, of who the majority are women, seem entirely willing to pick up books of literary aspirations simply as something to enjoy, without needing them to be confined by some ancient genre convention. Think of how popular Elena Ferrante and Lucia Berlin have been lately

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