My Genre Preferences

While I've always read both sci-fi and fantasy, I feel I leaned more towards fantasy when I was younger and more towards sci-fi now. I don't think either genre is  more literary (nor has that ever been a reason that I read either genre), but when I was a kid I leaned more towards the fantasy aesthetic whereas now it seems I enjoy the scifi one more.

I've branched out to other genres more as an adult, but these are still the ones I read most often. The most essential thing a novel must do is hold my attention. How? Well, that is the mystery of my mind. But it does tend to help if they are fast-paced, have a lot of action, or character development. I also enjoy a well-executed plot, and as might be surmised by my genre preferences, detailed worldbuilding.