HDC Chooses: Favorite literary non-horror fiction?

[_____V_____]

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.

[Disease]

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

[_____V_____]

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.

[Disease]

Dirty realism is fiction though.

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

[ChronoGrl]

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. :(

[urgeok2]

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

[Angra]

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.

[Angra]

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:

[Roderick Usher]

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)

[neverending]

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.