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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I was curious so I went to my libraries OD site and checked the breakdown for eBooks (no audio) and this is what I got... Didn't seem too bad to me (of course it relies on publishers placing books in the right categories). They also do Cloud Library, but I didn't check that.
Fiction 66,064
Nonfiction 42,822
Romance 28,432
Juvenile Fiction 18,532
Literature 14,685
Mystery 14,668
Historical Fiction 12,339
Fantasy 11,618
Juvenile Literature 9,625
Young Adult Fiction 9,241
Thriller 8,861
Suspense 7,387
Biography & Autobiography 6,207
History 5,345
Comic and Graphic Books 5,225
Cooking & Food 4,878
Science Fiction 4,589
Humor (Fiction) 4,382
Business 3,781
Young Adult Literature 3,624
Travel 3,218
Health & Fitness 3,046
Self-Improvement 3,005
Religion & Spirituality 2,938
Juvenile Nonfiction 2,885
plus a bunch more smaller categories
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Romance has infiltrated many other genres. There may be far fewer than 4,589 SF books available for those who will not read SF/Romance.