In my Q&A blog question 24 I considered "valuable" to mean personal value. After reading the discussion on the meaning of "valuable" I decided to add a socially ranked list as well. (These are just personal oppinions.)
Nonfiction - 1
Poetry - 2
Historical Fiction - 3
Romance - 8
Fantasy Fiction - 4/5
Science Fiction - 4/5
Horror - 9
Mystery - 7
Adventrure - 6
Explanation for #1 and #9
#1 - Nonfiction is the most commonly used genre of writing. Most of the books we use to learn, including textbooks and reference books, can fall into this category. We all use them and I believe that makes them the most important to us socially.
#9 - The purpose of most horror writing is to scare the reader. I honestly believe you can get the same effect from watching the news. So I do not think it is important to anyone socially.
Interesting!
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