What's your split? (fiction v. non-fiction)

[maroki13]

What percentage of your overall reading is fiction? Non-fiction?

-- 13 Jul 2015, 21:34 --

I read about 85% fiction and 15% non-fiction.

[Melissa-C-Water]

For someone who wrote non-fiction, I do prefer fiction...
Maybe 90$ fiction and 10% non-fiction....

[CrystalD94]

I prefer fiction overall. However when I find an interesting topic or story, non-fiction can be just as good. If I was going to estimate I think my percentage would be close to 90-95% fiction though.

[DATo]

When I joined this forum it was about 50/50, now it is about 75% fiction owing largely to the many recommendations of books I have received here.

[LivreAmour217]

For books, my fiction/nonfiction split is probably about 75/25. However, I often do Google searches on topics that pique my curiosity (usually factual things that would be considered non-fiction), which can lead to quite a bit of Internet reading, but that probably doesn't count!

[acasto]

During the summer I read about 90/10 fiction/non-fiction. I love letting fiction books take me away. During the school year I read about 40/60. Some non-fiction books I have to read for school, but I am also more in the mood to learn new things on my own time. I love reading books to learn things because I can go over it again and again until it makes sense.

[Zoe303]

I rarely find a non-fiction book worth reading, so I prefer fiction, so it's 80% fiction, 20% non-fiction.

[ReadandRoll[]

About 60/40. Reading more fiction now for pleasure.

[Gravy]

My non-fiction reading has taken most of my attention lately.
That will surely change.

Typically, it's between 75% to 80% fiction.

[Crimsonsky 749]

Up until recently fiction was the only thing I would read, I absolutely hated non fiction books. However, recently I have started to read some online books about business and have found them quite interesting. However my over all reading of fiction and non fiction is still 90% and 10%.

[KitKat_Reader]

There is no split; it is 100% fiction for me. Personally I love reading to try and escape every day life, so I don't want to read books about real life and, not trying to say the authors of that genre are bad cause they aren't, I just find non-fiction to be boring to me and I never want to read it.

[surprise_its_em]

I like to read non-fiction, but most of the time I stick to fiction. Me personally, I can't stay focused while reading non-fiction like I can fiction. I guess it would be a 90% for fiction, and non-fiction 10%.

[fmg]

I would say about 95% fiction and 5% nonfiction. Though if you include the organic chemistry textbook that I've been steadily reading all summer as nonfiction (which I suppose it technically is..), those percentages would change a bit.

[patrickt]

In the forty years I was working it was 90% non-fiction. Partly non-fiction because I was young and had a lot to learn and party non-fiction that involved my work. Once I approached chronic unemployment the percentage flipped.

When my kids were reading well I told them that there is often more truth in fiction than non-fiction. My son is heavily invested in his work so his reading is almost all non-fiction. My daughter reads a lot more fiction.

[Sarah Clay]

I read about 85% fiction--the other 15% is textbooks.