HDC Chooses: Favorite literary non-horror fiction?
 

Of course, we are all fanboys of horror. But other than that, which examples of genre fiction do you consider close to yourself?

And do you have a favorite author(s) in that particular literary genre? Let's hear it.

You don't have dirty realism on the list....

There's no biography/autobiography either.

Its a list of literary fiction genres, but, I will add that in, too.

Classic case of sitting to count the trees, without eating the fruit.

Dirty realism is fiction though.

Classic case of only picking the fruit you have tried before...

I tend to lean toward scifi, though I hate to classify it as sci-fi.

What I'm thinking of specifically are both Oryx and Crake and Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - They're technically sci-fi, but more of a sub-genre of post-apocalypse.

If not that, I definitely do dramady... David Sedaris and Jon Irving (The World According to Garp is one of my favorite books of all time)...

But that's only recently. I don't read half as much as I should or used to. :(

I really dont care for horror fiction oddly enough ..
I used to read it as a kid - eventually it all seemed like crap to me.
never read it now until i get curious about what people are talking about ... i'll check something out - and then i'll have my dislike for the genre reconfirmed.

so my reading list is pretty much exclusively non-horror.

Sci-fi is my guilty pleasure...

Modern classics are my true love :

- kipling
- dickens
- sommerset maughan
- D H Lawrence

and my all time favorite author : Graham Greene


i read a lot of autobiographies (autobiographies - NOT biographies)
about actors, filmmakers, and musicians.
I dont care about personal history - i love reading about the process of making films - what was going on when the movie was being made ..etc.

been reading a ton of those lately


favorite book ever : something wicked this way comes - Ray Bradbury

Damn..

I find it very hard to remember any books that wasn't horror in some way.

I guess the only one i can think of (because i'm looking directly at it from my couch) is "Evil" by Jan guilou. :D

If it is really based on his childhood he was one damn tough kid.

Oh of course. Gaimans Neverwhere.


In Denmark Gaimans works can't sell. That really pisses me off coz it means that he wont be translated anymore. Not since Coraline. :mad:

My tastes are all over the place.

I'm a big fan of the works of Jim Thompson. Awesomely gritty crime drama.
The Getaway is one of his best, along with The Killing.

I dig Umberto Eco as well. The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum are excellent, heady reads.

And John Kennedy Toole's modern classic A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all-time favorite books. Absurdist humor there.

The Beat's really knock me out too, especially William S Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Junky and Queer . Kerouac's On the Road changed my life when I read it (I was 15)

Sci fi for me. I love Bradbury, Vonnegut and Ellison and a million others.

Fantasy too- particularly Tolkien and Fritz Lieber's Fahfrd & the Grey Mouser series.


Nice poll, V.