Fiction or Non Fiction

[Caribeing]

Which do you prefer! I normally read non fiction I enjoy biographies, true crime sometimes I would like to unwind and read a "novel" what would you recommend!

[Whickerman]

I read text for about 4 hours of my 8 hour working day. It's business specifications, terms etc. So when i read for pleasure it's usually fiction all the way - faves are anything by Irvine Welsh or Douglas Kennedy at the moment, but I'll happily sit and read Stephen King.

[China Doll]

I love fiction, I always find that reading biographies or specialist topic books, no matter how much I may be interested leaves me feeling a bit like I'm at school reading a textbook.

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night is great fun and you might well enjoy that for the humour as well as the story. However, if you're generally in to crime and biographies you could try The Interpretation of Murder, thatmight interest you.

[Rosetta]

Generally i don't like autobiographies particularly ones of so called celebrities or sports star.
I do enoy novels in a hisorical setting that I find is detailed and accurate. I need to get the flavour of the time, how people lived. For this reason I have enjoyed the series of CJ Sansom, the main character being Matthew Shardlake.

[shaneystar2]

Don't like biographies either. I'm a crime novel fan .The gorier the better and I read lots of them .
Like Rosetta I love historical murder stuff and Sansom is the bees knees .Andrew Pepper is a new author I have discovered set in the days of the bow street runners .

I have a bit of a penchant for Scandanavian crime fiction too especially Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum .

If it's novels you want then you might like a good saga Poldark (yes I know it's old hat) but they are brilliant . AJ Cronin has written some great stuff and Howard Spring (very underated) but I love his books ,Daphne du Maurier all good novels in their own right .Susan Howatch writes brilliant sagas about the church and all their devious and devout goings on in the Starbridge series and St Benets Trilogy .
Can't stand what I call novellas Jane Eyre and all that sort of thing .You have never lived unless you have read them apparently .I have and they leave me cold . .Now ..Elizabeth Gaskell could really get her teeth into things ,much more interesting.
Try The Kite Runner and a Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini or Suite Francaise by Ir�ne N�mirovsky if you want a good weep .

[EngTeach]

Patricia Cornwell (Cornwall???) has a series about an FBI agent Kay Scarpetta that has quite a few titles. Some are creepy as she profiles derial killers and such. Though the last few of her books have gotten bad reviews I enjoyed being frightened by the earlier ones. :)

[tiggerblue10]

I mostly read non-fiction. I have many history books.

[123everton]

"The Nazi Officer's Wife" by Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin true story good read.
Off to bed.

[terambulan]

Last year I was hooked on Jeffrey Archer....loved his books. Found them funny and enlightening. I've yet to read his latest, A prisoner of Birth, sounds great and am keeping it for my hols.