Discussion: My Reading Tastes & How They Have Changed

I started out with reading Percy Jackson, and now I read everything from autobiographies to contemporary romances to high fantasy. My reading tastes have definitely changed as I’ve matured and I thought that it would be interesting to analyze my journey. So I broke out my good ol’ Goodreads review stats and wrote this post.

Middle Grade Fantasy (AKA Rick Riordon) Phase

By middle grade fantasy, I mean Percy Jackson and literally anything and everything by Rick Riordon. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Percy Jackson, but my tastes are a bit more mature at this point.

Recommendations From Friends Phase

This was a while after my Rick Riordon phase. As I’ve mentioned in my How did you become interested in reading? post, Children of Blood and Bone was recommended to me by a friend and I borrowed it from her and loved it. After that I just kept on asking for recommendations and she kept giving them.

Obsessed With Goodreads Phase

This was around the time I joined Goodreads. This whole 2 months, I was literally just reading books I found on Goodreads/popular books on Goodreads. I was also using the dreaded Goodreads recommendations page (gasp).

Random Books Phase

I was just reading random books that were available on my school’s library app. Other than the Percy Jackson book, most of these are unpopular ones that I didn’t even like that much.

2 Dimensional Romances Phase

I actually liked most of these when I first read them (and wrote some pretty cringy reviews), but as I look back I’m realizing that most of them weren’t that good. The plots were basic and the characters were plain.

Book Blogging Phase

This is from when I first joined the blogosphere and was shocked at how many book recommendations there were. This was also the point where I was like “Wow, diversity in books is a thing.” I basically just read a bunch of books popular in the book blogging community.

Nonfiction Phase

At this point, my parents were getting kind of annoyed with me spending so much time reading fiction and fan-girling over characters in books, so I decided to be a good girl and read some nonfiction. Honestly, I enjoyed it and I read a couple nonfiction books a month for a good while. Hopefully, I can get back into the habit.

Blog Tours & ARCs Phase

As I gained followers both on my blog and Goodreads, it suddenly became a thing that authors/publishers could send me eARCs and I’d post ARC reviews and blog tours. I went a little overboard but honestly, I was over the moon. It’s still so cool to me that publishers give me, a random bookloveron the internet, access to books before they’re even published.

Currently

Currently, I like everything. I read mostly contemporary/romance and fantasy. I still love sci-fi, but I don’t read it as often. Mystery is whenever I feel like it, and I rarely read non-fiction. And always young adult.

To give you an idea of what I usually read, these are the books I’ve read the past 2 months;

So I read 10 books in total, and 5 of them were contemporary romances, which is kind of surprising. I usually don’t realize how many I actually read. I also read 3 fantasies (all of which were about pirates and were enemies to lovers. I was just in a mood, I guess.) And finally, I read 2 mysteries, both of which I enjoyed.

How have your reading tastes changed? What’s something you used to love but don’t anymore? Leave your thoughts on this post in the comments below!