Book Genre Quiz compatibility chart
For each of the 8 book genres, two that are easy to be with and one that may clash. A clash does not mean either side is wrong — they simply value different things.
History
- Easy together Field Guide Field Guide is another genre that checks facts carefully. History traces one thread deeply; Field Guide lays many things side by side. One looks along time and the other across it, so you fill in what the other doesn't know.
- Easy together Fantasy Like you, Fantasy likes to sink slowly into one world. Fantasy, which builds its imaginary worlds right down to maps and timelines, fully understands History's love of tracing an era. One wants to find out and one wants to imagine, but you can talk at the same pace.
- May clash Manga Manga is a genre that moves briskly from panel to panel and enjoys all sorts of stories. To History, which wants to settle into one story slowly, Manga's speed looks like rushing ahead — and to Manga, History's background feels long.
Cookbook
- Easy together Travel Writing Travel Writing is another genre that briskly records facts it has checked firsthand. When Travel Writing brings back stories of local flavors from all over, Cookbook tries them out in the kitchen that same day. Stories turn straight into something real.
- Easy together Mystery Mystery, too, moves briskly toward a single puzzle. When Cookbook checks what went into a dish, Mystery shows how to reason it out from the clues. You head toward answers at a similar speed, and the conversation flows.
- May clash Poetry Poetry is a genre that pictures whole scenes from the sound of words. Cookbook wants to check things with numbers and steps, Poetry wants to savor the space between words, and even when you talk about the same dish, you tend to care about different things.
Field Guide
- Easy together History History is another genre that checks facts carefully. To each thing Field Guide lays out, History adds its origins — when and why it came about. Instead of stopping at comparison, you get to enjoy the story beyond it.
- Easy together Poetry Like you, Poetry is a book people open at any page and savor slowly. To the name of a flower or insect that Field Guide has found, Poetry adds another way of seeing it, in just a few words. You're both books that can be opened anywhere, so neither of you hurries the other.
- May clash Mystery Mystery is a genre that chases one puzzle and turns the pages briskly. To Field Guide, which wants to lay things out broadly and compare, Mystery's urge to get to the answer feels rushed — while to Mystery, Field Guide's detours look like they've wandered off the plot.
Travel Writing
- Easy together Cookbook Cookbook is another genre that tries things out right away to see for itself. For Travel Writing, which keeps moving from place to place, Cookbook, which finishes one thing by following the steps, turns what you saw on your trips into something that lasts once you're home.
- Easy together Manga Manga shares your taste for a wide range of things at a brisk pace. When Travel Writing talks about scenery it has seen, Manga spins it into a fun story you can practically picture. You move on to the next thing at a similar speed, so you never get bored together.
- May clash Fantasy Fantasy is a genre that immerses itself slowly and for a long time in one imaginary world. Travel Writing wants to go and see for real, Fantasy wants to imagine a world nobody can visit yet, and even when you're both talking about “going somewhere far away,” you enjoy it in opposite directions.
Fantasy
- Easy together History History is another genre that immerses itself slowly in one era. To the world Fantasy imagines, History brings the texture of times that really existed. The world you've built suddenly feels much more real.
- Easy together Poetry Poetry, too, uses words to picture things that aren't in front of you. The world Fantasy paints in a long tale, Poetry lights up in a single line. You both enjoy imagining, and you can take your time together.
- May clash Travel Writing Travel Writing is a genre that goes in person and checks out one new place after another. To Fantasy, which wants to stay long in one world, Travel Writing's constant moving on feels too fast, and to Travel Writing, Fantasy's “world that doesn't exist yet” can be hard to grasp.
Mystery
- Easy together Cookbook Cookbook also follows the steps and gets to the answer quickly. The answer Mystery deduces, Cookbook actually tests and confirms. What you picture gets checked right away, and you both come away satisfied.
- Easy together Manga Manga is another genre that turns pages at a brisk pace. While Mystery chases one puzzle, Manga keeps things lively with all kinds of stories. You talk at the same speed and never run out of things to say.
- May clash Field Guide When Mystery pictures the answer from the clues — “It must be this” — Field Guide wants to lay out what hasn't been looked at yet and check, “What about the other possibilities?” The speed of picturing and pressing on and the care of checking tend to clash.
Poetry
- Easy together Field Guide Field Guide is another genre you can open anywhere. For Poetry, moved by the sound of words, Field Guide, which neatly sets out names and sizes, becomes a way to know a flower or bird that caught your eye as it really is.
- Easy together Fantasy Like you, Fantasy takes slow walks through the imagination. For Poetry, moved a little by all sorts of things, Fantasy's stories of one deeply built world keep revealing new scenery however long you listen.
- May clash Cookbook Cookbook is a genre that tries out steps one at a time and quickly turns them into something real. To Poetry, which wants to savor things without settling on an answer, Cookbook's “So what do we do?” sounds rushed, and to Cookbook, Poetry's thinking time looks like standing still.
Manga
- Easy together Travel Writing Travel Writing is another genre that moves lightly from place to place. For Manga, which often enjoys things in the imagination, Travel Writing's stories of actually going and seeing bring the scenes you picture closer to the real thing. Your paces match too, so the conversation never stalls.
- Easy together Mystery Mystery, too, keeps the pages turning at a brisk pace. To Manga, which enjoys a wide range of stories, Mystery shows the fun of chasing one puzzle all the way to the end.
- May clash History History is a genre that checks what really happened, one fact at a time. Manga wants to take a scene it has pictured and build it up as it tells it, History wants to check that it matches the facts, and even when you're talking about the same thing, what you enjoy tends to drift apart.
It is more fun once you know which one you are. 18 questions, about 3 minutes.
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