My answer is all of the above. Each of the different types of literature provides something different for the reader. I tend to read a few novels both ficitional and non through the year in addition to a few plays I find compelling. Poetry is beautiful as well in all of its forms. Language and communication tie these different art forms together. I'll expand more as more people respond and we can see where the conversation about types of literature goes.

No responses? I know we have some writers here! lol

I voted for fiction.

I'm really into the Punk Lit movement right now (that would be Palahniuk, Vonnegut and Coupland). I'm convinced it's our generation's contribution to the history of literature.

I enjoy all of the different forms of literature. Poetry is enjoyable because of the economic use of language while still retaining significant meaning. I tend to enjoy romantic poetry with the lyrical emphasis because of the connection to nature and a more comprehensible linguistic scheme. However, traditional material is very compelling too with the specified meter and use of socio-historical connection with beings and words of the past. I also write a great deal of poetry and appreciate the modern approaches of beat poetry and so on.

Drama is another incredible mode of communication. If you have ever acted in a play or have a love for the theatre, you definitely understand the immense importance of it. So many plays through history have been socially conscious and transmit the spectrum of human emotion beautifully. Whether reading or seeing a play, the range of themes and emotions that permeate a good drama or comedy resound within your heart and mind. A few of my favorites include "The Exonerated", "Death of a Salesman", and "A Raisin in the Sun".

I'll expound upon why I like the other two in another post.

I also love the short story. This type of prose permits you to read of a multitude of events in a shorter and more concise amount of time. The moral messages and thematic complexity of the short story is not to be underestimated in its brevity. Something like Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" or "A Jury of Her Peers" by Glaspell illustrate the deep meanings, symbolism, and social transmission of beliefs through the written word. These pieces of fiction whether in the short story or very long/involved novels like Orwell's 1984 or Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter are masterpieces in their own right.

Non-fiction also has a place in my heart to deal with more concrete and real events in history, psychology, and other related fields. It brings you into the world of a person or particular subject with candid honesty and subjects the reader to truths once unknown. The advantage of this genre is that the events, research, or writing on the person actually happened. Thus, we gain better insight into the complex world or person the author is aiming to describe. Overall, political, psychological, and sociological non-fiction tend to be my focus, but sometimes biographies of people I'm fascinated with too.