I'll give anything a shot if it doesn't cost me money to try it nor eat up unreasonable amounts of my time for diminishing returns.
But I do prefer the speculative genres of fiction (sf/fantasy/detective/historical) where one is generally encouraged to "fill in the blanks" and imagine something different from what one might normally think would occur. And I also favour a lot of non-fiction, though that's such a broad category that it too needs some subgenre divisions.
As for my current favourites, I'd have to say right now I'm most strongly drawn to what can be best termed "Lovecraftian Bureaucracy", a reading kink which is kind of X-Files-ish when I think about it, with unspeakable horror being itemized and analyzed and filed in triplicate just as though it were any other routine agency concern.
I'm also liking public domain mash-ups of the Sherlock Holmes fights the War of the Worlds sort (I have one from the library by Manly Wade Wellman and a couple more on hold in the same reprint "series") rather than the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies type.
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