Thursday Musings: How My Reading Tastes Have Changed Over Time
Do you ever look back at your Goodreads or StoryGraph reading history and think, “in 200x I used to read a lot of this genre but I don’t anymore”…? I know I do. Do you ever look back at how your reading has evolved over time? Allow me to take you on a little walk into my reading past…
Preteens:
In the 5-6th grade I read a steady stream of Goosebumps, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and I tore through the Heartland books long before it was ever a tv show. While I was still pretty much a scaredy cat and the Goosebumps books sometimes gave me nightmares I was definitely entering my spooky loving era. I also read a lot of adult books my grandmother left lying around the house like Mary Higgins Clark mysteries.
Teens:
Ah, my paranormal romance era. This was pretty much all I read in my teens. (Although I also was a sucker for Nora Roberts, Lisa Jackson and Mary Higgins Clark still… again, my grandmother left them lying around. Oh – and Jackie Collins which was the “dirtiest” books I read at that time and now seem tame compared to some of the books I read 
)
My twenties were really my try-everything era. I read a lot of YA still but also NA romance, I tried sci-fi and fell in love with Jennifer L. Armentrout’s writing, my first “fantasy” read was The Sweetest Spell which was a gateway to the Great Hunt Duology by Wendy Higgins and ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas before dipping into Game of Thrones. For a while I mostly read fantasy until it started to get repetitive.
Thirties:
Ah, the current era. These days I’ve mostly left fantasy behind, although I’m of course hooked on the Fourth Wing books and really into Rachel Gillig’s writing to make a couple. But mostly I love thrillers, mysteries, dark romance, and contemporary romance. Some of my favorite authors are Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Rachel Hawkins, Catherine Cowles, Eva Simmons, and Elsie Silver although I still read old favorites like Nora Roberts, Lisa Jackson, Agatha Christie, and Dawn Kurtagich.
How do you feel your reading tastes have evolved over time? Do you still enjoy the same genres you did 10 years ago? The same authors?
