Monthly Neurodiverse Megathread #6! Theme: Fiction and Non-Fiction Books

Hello neurodivergent comrades and allied neurotypical comrades! This month's megathread is all about books, both fiction and non-fiction, so feel free to talk your favorite novels, interesting and informative retellings of history, deep dives into leftist theory, and anything else book related.

If you can't think of anything to talk about then here's some questions to consider:

What genres of fiction and/or non-fiction do you like and why?
What genres of fiction and/or non-fiction do you dislike and why?
Do you dislike fiction and/or non-fiction in general and why?
How does your neurodivergence effect your relationship to reading in general?

Or feel free to completely ignore the theme and post what you want! We’re just happy to have you!

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English class may have killed my motivation to read books forever
- Idk if it was English class, or school in general, or just because video games/podcasts/etc. are a much easier form of entertainment, but my motivation for reading completely died sometime around high school. The only books from high school that I remember reading most/all of are 1984, Crime and Punishment, and The Things They Carried (all of which were assigned reading as well). I read the later in 11th grade and since then I've only read Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program and maybe like 1/2 to 2/3 of Stalin's Foundations of Leninism.
  It's sort of amazing looking back at how in middle school I was able to read the Hobbit + LOTR series, as well as all four books in the 2001 Space Odyssey series, considering that I never even think about reading nowadays.

So I haven't read any novels in quite a while, but I have read from plenty of physics textbooks over the past couple years. And this might be weird as someone with ADHD, but I think one of the biggest problems with textbooks is that they often don't have enough information in them. On the one hand, having more material to go through can be annoying, but a lot of times I find I find myself wishing their were more examples and problems in textbooks. (Feel like I have more to add, but idk exactly what else I want to say, so I'm just going to end it here. If I think of something to add I'll probably edit it in.)