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What genre of books do us developers like to read?

Survey period: 13 Dec 2021 to 20 Dec 2021

Obviously RFCs and Spec documents top the list, so let's skip them and see what's on everyone's bedside table these days.

Option	Votes	%
Science Fiction or Dystopian	481	62.31
Fantasy	296	38.34
Horror / Thriller	99	12.82
Mystery / Crime	251	32.51
Romantic	24	3.11
Non-Fiction: Science / Engineering / Education	409	52.98
Non-Fiction: Business and Money	96	12.44
Non-Fiction: Health / Psychology / Well-being	76	9.84
Non-Fiction: Repair / Maintenance / Craft / Hobbies / Cooking	166	21.50
Memoir / Biography / Autobiography	133	17.23
Other	133	17.23
Responses	772
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Other Toonser13-Dec-21 0:54 Toonser 13-Dec-21 0:54  Poetry, short stories and novels. I dislike the term "literary fiction", but that's how most of my reading material tends to be categorised. missing option V.12-Dec-21 19:56 V. 12-Dec-21 19:56  Comic books, but not the Spiderman, X-man stuff, more the graphic novels where each drawing is piece of art in itself V. Re: missing option M.Vo.12-Dec-21 20:53 M.Vo. 12-Dec-21 20:53  YES! Neil Gaiman - Sandman And "Snow, Glass, Apples" Re: missing option Sander Rossel12-Dec-21 23:04 Sander Rossel 12-Dec-21 23:04  I think that would qualify as "other" Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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