If you’re into fantasy, do you ever pick up a romance and give it a shot? Or read a historical fiction book if you’re into scifi? It’s a leap of faith that doesn’t always work out but when it does it’s pretty sweet.
I asked a friend what her favorite book was, and she said The Goldfinch. I had never heard of it and hadn’t read any fiction/contemporary like it, but it ended up being such a great surprise. It was one of the few 5 star reads of that year and I never would have experienced it if I hadn’t taken the chance.
I’d say every so often, just take a chance. You might be pleasantly surprised.
I don’t like non-fiction. I occasionally pick up non-fiction books. I read like 10 pages and give up. The most I’ve read was Sapiens and I read up until about half of it. I just can’t keep my focus on them, I fall asleep or become too hyper to continue. There are books I’m super interested in but I just know I won’t read more than a third of it tops.
However, anything fiction, from romance to sci-fi to classics, I can read. Very rarely do I dnf any fiction book, and that’s when either it’s written too poorly or the translation is bs.
You might try listening to them instead. I find that some non-fiction, especially science based ones, are better to listen to because the terminology will sometimes trip me up and slow my reading rate which affects how well I follow the book and how much concentration the read takes. Audiobooks solve that problem and I enjoy the book.
Have you tried more journalistic/prose nonfiction? In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Emperor of All Maladies, Killers of the Flower Moon. They read much more like novels.