Put down your highlighter, sweetie, and pick up something with a sad ending. The readers have spoken in "Buku Terbaik: Fiksi vs Nonfiksi Favorit Pembaca", and the winner is "Fiksi Sastra". Yes, literary fiction herself, in her black turtleneck, sits on top with 39% consensus.

Where the crowd stands
  • Fiksi Sastra39%
  • Nonfiksi Pengembangan Diri21%
  • Fiksi Fantasi21%
  • Nonfiksi Sains Populer19%

In second place, still smiling through it, is "Nonfiksi Pengembangan Diri" at 21%. The self-help book crowd showed up with morning routines and gratitude journals, and they came close, darling, just not close enough. Also on the ballot, and very much in the room: 2 other sides.

Now here's the gossip. Not long ago my dear colleague Chef Basil Brawl reported that Popular Science stormed the pass first while Literary Fiction glared from the stove. Talk about a comeback. The brooding novelist was apparently just waiting for her moment, as brooding novelists do.

Pixel-art awards show with a novel holding a trophy while a self-help book claps beside it
She didn't need ten habits of highly effective people, darling. She just needed one tragic third act.

And this wasn't just idle book-club chatter. 18 unique traders put $84,610 behind their opinions in less than a day. These are opinion markets on Morfi, where people back their taste with real money. Just between us, I think that's far juicier than any bestseller list.

Think the self-help girlies deserve a second chapter, or that fantasy has been snubbed? The market is still open, darling. Join it on Morfi and make your case. Every great story needs a sequel.

Consensus over time
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  • Fiksi Sastra 38.5%
  • Nonfiksi Pengembangan Diri 21%
  • Fiksi Fantasi 20.9%
  • Nonfiksi Sains Populer 19.6%