What Kind of Fiction Do You Enjoy Reading?

I also enjoy detective fiction. My favourite author at the moment is Lindsey Davis, the author of the 'Falco' series, set in Ancient Rome and very well researched and written. Lively and exciting to read, the series makes life in the Roman Empire come alive and helps one understand that it was a world just as complex and 'civilised' as our own. I have also enjoyed Ellis Peters (set in Mediaeval Britain and with the principal character a Welsh monk in Shrewsbury), Margery Allingham and the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers. I, too, don't like too much blood and violence and most enjoy the puzzle aspect of finding out 'whodunnit'. I think that you might enjoy all of the above for their excellent description, characterisation and suspense.

My favorite author is John Grisham . I have read most of his books and i love them .

@bagarad I also like to read books that are about the Amish people. I have a Debbie Macomber book that I need to get to reading. I am currently reading "1,000 White Women". I have been looking for that book for about 10 years and finally spotted it at one of the Goodwill stores here in town. I enjoy reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. She sure gets into some predicaments!!

Honestly? I buy books from the cancer society by the armful and have at least 70 in my bedroom to read. I adore the Patricia Cornwall series and also Elizabeth Goudge. I read voraciously and have read many of the author's you quoted. Nothing like a good book and the magic of opening a new one and reading the first page

I stick mostly to fantasy and science fiction, with a few random other things thrown in for variety. Recently, I've been reading Jim Butcher's Codex Alera novels, which are the result of Jim being dared to write a story based on a cheesy central story concept and Jim one-upping the other forum member by saying he'd take two cheesy story concepts and use both of them in the same story. The concepts the other forum member gave him were the lost Roman legion and Pokémon. I've also enjoyed his Dresden Files novels, which are urban fantasy. I guess you could say they start off as a detective series, but the storytelling has evolved a lot from there. They've been some of my favorites for years, and I've had the privilege of getting all of my hardcover editions personally signed by him. I'm looking forward to possibly being able to attend a signing for his upcoming The Aeronaut's Windlass and getting some of my Alera books signed, too. Let's see... a little more recently than Alera I picked up Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns books. I wasn't expecting to like them as much as I did, since they're military fantasy and that's not my usual fare. There's also a supernatural aspect to them, though, and that's what really hooked me. That, and the fact that three books in he still hasn't answered any of the questions about what the heck one of the major (non-POV) characters is up to. Which is extremely aggravating because now I need to buy the fourth book as soon as it comes out... in like a year. Elizabeth Moon's works are some of my favorites, too. I really liked Remnant Population, which is about an elderly woman who chooses to stay behind on a planet when the colony is evacuated. I like her Vatta's War books, too... they're military sci-fi. And of course there's my embarrassing tendency to tear through J.D. Robb books... *cough*

I like detective novels. I guess that goes back to my reading Encyclopedia Brown in the second grade. My favorite is Ross MacDonald, which started reading at the recommendation of Warren Zevon.

When I was younger I read many detective stories. Today I prefer horror. I don't like horror stories with lots of blood and disgusting descriptions, but I love psychological horror stories for instance "After the hole" by Guy Burt. Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories, but he also wrote horror stories. I have read some of them and I liked them a lot. I also love stories with a twist, and O Henry is one of my favourite authors.

I like scary books. I mainly read Stephen King stuff. Sometime Dean Koontz as well.

HORROR TO THE CORE! :-D