Favourites - fantasy, historical fiction, crime, thriller, classics, TV/Film tie-in novelisations.

I seldom read romances - I don't mind romance as part of a bigger story but don't tend to go for books where the romance is the whole point of it. I have however read some for the book bingo and really enjoyed them.

There is nothing I would never read. i'm open to trying anything.

I have more or less the same feeling about romance!

My favourites are fantasy, gothic, esoteric or historical mystery, classical mysteries, magical realism, and thriller.

I'm not that fond of horror, biographies and romance.

The only thing I can't read is chick lit. Most of the time it's not that well written and I enjoy way more a good fanfiction than that kind of stories.

I wouldn't purposely seek out chick lit, unless a friend recommended it. Even then I would be sceptical.

I also love fantasy, gothic, esoteric, magical realism, and thriller :) Do you have any favorite magical realism authors? I've been wanting to expand my interest in that genre in particular lately.

And yeah, I feel you on chick lit.

My two favourites are Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino. You should also read Gabriel Garcia Marquez' books if you haven't.

Someone also recommended me "My name is Red" from Orhan Pamuk

I am all over the place. I'll try anything that has been recommended by somebody I trust but I most heavily lean toward mystery, suspense, fantasy, science fiction, horror, graphic novels, biographies, humor, and cookbooks.

I just finished a thought provoking YA novel: Angie Thomas's The Hate You Give and André Aciman's beautifully written Call Me By Your Name. Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner was grim but held my interest, too.

I need to read Call Me By Your Name. The film looks excellent too.

I read a lot of different genres but I guess I'd say my top favorite/most-read is weird fiction, specifically weird horror fiction. The book I'm reading for my free space square is a 1,117-page collection of short weird fiction stories called The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, put together by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. The works included span a hundred years, from big names in the genre like H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Arthur Machen, Clark Ashton Smith, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman. I plan to read at least 100 pages a month so I've only made a small dent in it, but I've loved all the stories I've read so far and would definitely recommend it for anyone interested in the genre. More toward the horror end of the genre I'd recommend Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves. It's one of my favorite books if not my favorite book. I read it in high school and it was one of those life-changing reads that really struck me.

I'm generally open to most genres, but I almost never read books on or about war. And I went through a phase in middle school where I read a lot of YA romance, but not so much since then.

As a young adult, I've read nearly all Kafka's works and some of HP Lovecraft, too! I really enjoyed it!

Favorites include Sci-fi, Mystery, biographies, fantasy...

I almost put romance, but I wouldn't say that it is one of my favorites. Although I do like it when it is mixed in with one of above. Having said that every once in a while I get a very strong urge to read a romance book. I think it just hits me out of the blue because in high school I read a ton of romance and now it has a bit of nostalgia mixed up with it, so it can be a bit of a comfort genre for me. If that made sense? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I have more or less the same feeling towards manga! I read tons of them before and now it has a hemoly feeling for me to read one again.

My out and out favorite, by far, is fantasy or fantasy/sci fi...then sci fi...including young adult. And most specifically, fantasy/sci fi written by women,....although my faves include Narnia and Lord of the Rings

Elizabeth Lynn, Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula LeGuin, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia McKillip, Andre Norton, James Tiptree, JK Rowling....

I also really like memoirs of people who push/ed the boundaries...things like Emma Goldman's autobiography, Albert Camus' and Aldous Huxley's notebooks, Kate Millet's The Looney Bin Trip and Flying. Brunettepet said cookbooks...and yup, I love reading cookbooks, even if I don't often actually follow a recipe...especially cookbooks from different ethnic cuisines that give a bit of info about traditions etc.

Young adult...especially fantasy.

Radical politics...feminist, anarchist, etc.

Children's picture books! (one of the only places some kids ever see art!)

Certain kinds of poetry...classical chinese poetry, poetry of different underrepresented groups

Some kinds of historical fiction. Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (about the Japanese internment from the POV of a Chinese American boy) is a favorite.

Fairy tales and folk tales...(Grimm yes, Anderson no.) I love reading different versions of the same fairy tale from different times and countries...

Books about alternative communities, alternative education...free (aka democratic) schools, unschooling, etc.

I have a real aversion to macho writing, and don't really read crime, thriller, war, horror, or books about conquering mountains, etc.

I read a lot of fantasy written by female! They have a very different way of treating it!

I'll read pretty much anything, but I prefer Historical fiction, Historical romance, sci-fi/fantasy, mysteries/thrillers, urban fantasy, horror, and paranormal romance...within reason.

I'm not big on New Adult, but I have read it before.