That’s exactly what happened to me. I was exclusively fiction when I was younger, with maybe 1 or 2 non-fic sprinkled in. After college is when I started reading in earnest, and the first few years ratio was 80-20 in favour of fiction. It kept tilting throughout the years and now at age 31, it’s 50-50.

I still love my fiction but am not raring for it like I used to, I selectively pick something that catches my eye from the new ones, otherwise I keep exploring favourite genres and authors more (for example, throughout pandemic I dug deep into Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, James Crumley, etc.).

Non-fiction has become very important to me. Reading about topics that interest me, politics, current affairs (global politics, geopolitics, tech), economic history, modern history (20th century onwards), movies & TV production/cultural impact, etc.