Tell Me Something Tuesday: What Are Your Favourite Book Genres?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post on Rainy Day Ramblings, where the blog's owner Heidi discusses a wide range of topics from books to blogging. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog.

Here is what is on deck this week:

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE BOOK GENRES?

👻 AFTERLIFE

If you've known me for a while (or even for a short time, really), I bet you won't be surprised to hear that my all-time favourite thing to read about are dead/undead characters, dead characters who are trying to contact the living, dead characters in an afterlife context...OK, dead characters 😂. As I said in the introduction to my blog's Afterlife Room,

[...] It's nothing morbid of course - I just love them reliving moments of their life, or trying to find out how they ended up dead in the first place. Or coming back to life sometimes LOL.

Afterlife book recommendations:

• Remember Me series by Christopher Pike (YA)
• Deadgirl series by B.C. Johnson (YA)
• Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace (YA)
• The Girl from the Well duology by Rin Chupeco (YA)
• The Everafter by Amy Huntley (YA)
• Absent by Katie Williams (YA)
• The Balance series by C.W. Snyder (YA/NA/Adult crossover)
• Ghost Roads series [well, it's a duology so far, with some short stories set in the same universe - but I hope it will get more books!] by Seanan McGuire (YA/Adult crossover)

👽 SCI-FI

I love all things weird and extra-terrestrial (except classic aliens à la X-Files) - especially time travel and time loops. I love to read both about plausible and implausible science. I tend to find the past boring and/or unpleasant to read about (though there are exceptions of course), but the future fascinates me. I want to travel to a place where I can forget my everyday life and experience things that don't exist (yet?). Sci-fi is my escape route.

Sci-fi book recommendations:

• Cold Awakening series by Robin Wasserman (YA)
• Jenna Fox Chronicles series by Mary E. Pearson (YA)
• Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman (YA)
• When We Wake duology by Karen Healey (YA)
• Strange Exit by Parker Peevyhouse (YA)
• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (YA)
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Adult)
• Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell (Adult)

😈 SUPERNATURAL/PARANORMAL

I'm not a fan of fantasy (unless it's urban fantasy or afterlife fantasy...OK, I'm going to stop pushing my afterlife obsession at you for the next five minutes...), and I don't particularly like creatures (again, with some exceptions...), but I love out-of-the-ordinary stuff (...wait, you guessed?!?), so supernatural/paranormal books that have something different going for them are on my list.

Supernatural/paranormal book recommendations [please note: some of these books are listed on my blog page called Unwalled Room, which means they're a mix of genres, but they're mainly supernatural/paranormal. Some of them involve ghosts, but I shelved them as Unwalled for...reasons, so they made their way onto this list as well...]:

• Riven series [one day...just a standalone for now] by B.C. Johnson (YA)
• The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (YA)
• The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich (YA)
• Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma (YA)
• A Room Away from the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma (YA)
• Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire (YA)
• Mad World series by Erin Callahan & Troy H. Gardner (YA)
• Thirst series by Christopher Pike (YA/NA/Adult crossover)

🕵 THRILLER/MYSTERY

I love police procedurals on TV, and I love vintage detective novels. I love to rack my brain trying to guess a killer and a motive. I'm having a hard time finding thrillers/mysteries in the YA department that don't lose their blurb appeal once I've read the first reviews, or that ultimately result in a 5 or 4 star read once I've read them...I loved The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee, but it isn't a straight-up mystery (though I shelved it as one because it seemed fitter than anything else). But I've been a fan of classic thrillers since I was a pre-teen (my mum owned a number of Agatha Christie et al. books), so I'm going to recommend you some of them.

Classic mystery book recommendations (all adult, but suitable for teens):

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• A Pocket Full of Rhye by Agatha Christie
• The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen
• Calamity Town by Ellery Queen
• The Three Coffins (US edition: The Hollow man) by John Dickson Carr
• The Nine Wrong Answers by John Dickson Carr

Well, that's it for now. And if you're interested in participating, here is the TMST prompt list till the end of January (because I'll only be back with the meme next year, so, in case you want to participate before then or you want to plan ahead...):

• November 12th: If you hosted a dinner for authors, who are the six authors you would invite (alive or deceased)?
• November 19th: Thanksgiving post: what are you thankful for this year?
• November 30th: Winter picks for 2019
• December 3rd: What series did you start this year that you plan to continue in 2020?
• December 10th: What books disappointed you this year?
• December 17th: Best books of 2019
• December 24th and December 31st: none! TMST is on a holiday hiatus!!!
• January 7th: What is your word or phrase for 2020?
• January 14th: Tell me about the city/town you live in
• January 21st: Do you read/listen to more than one book at a time, or do you give every book your undivided attention? (this was a question I submitted!)
• January 28th: What type of books do you like to cuddle up with in winter?

I'll be back for the meme on January 14th, because for various reasons, I wouldn't know how to answer the previous questions (in regard to the book ones, it mostly amounts to me hardly having read 2019 releases), but I'll read your TMST posts if you have any!

Now tell me something...what are your go-to genres? and regardless, are you always in the mood for them?