No, not really. Read a dozen fantasy books a two scifi books in the last 9 months. Just like old times.

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I'm late 40s and still mostly fiction. I've always liked biographies too, but they comprise about 10% of my literary intake.

No. I like both. And I'm in my 60s. But yes, there's a whole world of fiction that isn't for young adults.

Try Tolstoy's War and Peace, for example. Or Steven Erikson's fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Maybe that's diving into the deep end too soon. But you could work up to it.

I've noticed that I'm a lot pickier about which fiction books I like reading as I've gotten older, but I still really enjoy them when I find the right book! I think it comes down to the writing style almost more than it does the story line for me personally.

Interesting question. I have always been an avid reader but I am more likely now to pick up a history or science book than I was when I was younger. Although I would argue that my reading has just really grown more diverse. I pretty much used to just stick to classic literature fiction, kinda cycling through "phases" of favorites (Russian, French, women, 20th Century African American, South American...). I skipped over a lot of popular current stuff that I thought I was too old for at the time it came out, but I had a job a few years ago where I had the luxury of reading during down time and picked up things like Harry Potter and Hunger Games as well as some Roman, Medieval, American Civil War, Australian histories and more science type stuff. If you had asked me 15 years ago if I'd read any of that type of fiction, I would have scoffed. As for the nonfiction I'd probably have bought the book and put it down after a few days in favour of just rereading some Camus or Bronte.

I've gotten a lot less snobby and a lot more diverse in my reading choices and it's been very rewarding.

(Side note: Reading can be dangerous! I "literally" injured my radial nerves and ended up with floppy hands for a few months bc I was so into reading GoT one night, I forgot to take a break and leaned on my elbows holding the book too long! Take a break people...for reals.🤣)