What's your favorite genre?

Also, what are some of your favorite books in that genre?
What's your favorite genre?
Horror/Fantasy - just about anything my Stephen King, favorite-The Stand.
What's your favorite genre?
Fantasy--Bartimaeus Series, Abhorsen Series, Beastly and a lot more including Harry Potter.
Reply:Non-Fiction History





Pride of Carthage (about Hannibal)


1491 (The Americas before Columbus)


Manhunt (About the hunt for Lincoln's killer.





Mystery Fiction


The Inspector Banks Series (Peter Robinson)


The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)
Reply:Fantasy, definitely. Some of my favorites are:


The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien


The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks


Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg


The Belgariad series by David Eddings
Reply:detective novels , Robert B Parker, for Spencer , Jesse Stone series. Raymond Chandler for Philip Marlowe novels..Max Allan Collins, for the Nate Heller series. a few more classics
Reply:I don't really read according to genre and wouldn't really know what genre to put them some of them in. I like many different authors such as:


Stephen Hunter: Pale Horse Coming and Dirty White Boys


John Sandford: Mortal Prey and Certain Prey


Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child: Relic, Reliquary and Riptide


Paul Levine: 9 Scorpions and Night Vision


Jerry B. Jenkins/Tim LaHaye: The Left Behind series


Tim LaHaye: The Babylon Rising series


Desmond Bagley: High Citadel, The Vivero Letter and Tightrope Man


Stephen King: The Stand, The Dark Tower series and Cell


Clive Cussler: Dirk Pitt novels


John Grisham: The Testament and The Partner


James Patterson: The Jester and Honeymoon


Ridley Pearson: Never Look Back and Blood of the Albatross


Mark Joseph: To Kill the Potemkin and Typhoon


Jack Ketchum: Off Season and Offspring





But my current favorite author is Dean Koontz...he has some really good novels:


Tick Tock, Intensity, Velocity, Dragon Tears, The Taking, Dark Rivers of the Heart and The Face


Hopefully you'll give some of these books a try. They are some of my favorites. Happy Reading.
Reply:Stephen King


John Grisham


James Patterson





Dean Koontz...
Reply:fantasy. i love to escape this piece of crap reality to a far-off place where anything can happen.





my favorite author is jrr tolkien.


my favorite book is 'the silmarillion', but i rarely recommend it to people, because i don't think many others would like it.


it's basically the history of middle earth.


it's more or less my bible.