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What are your favorite books outside of your preferred genre?

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I like fiction/fantasy kind of books, but outside of that, I really like:

1984 - George Orwell

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Aeneid - Virgil/Robert Fagles translation (fiction-esque, but you know)

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

A Walk To Remember - Nicholas Sparks

Night - Elie Wiesel (so sad, but so good!)
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My favorite is dark fantasy but I have a major aversion to romance so I was mildly surprised when a dark fantasy I picked up turned out to be a really good romance novel. It is called Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.

Completely outside of the fantasy genre my favorite book is probably Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn.
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I suppose my preferred genre would be romance(though not the totally sappy kind) but I also love certain men's adventure titles like Don Pendleton's Executioner stuff.
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My prefered genres are science fiction and fantasy. However I love the Cat Who mystery novels.
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My preferred genre is mystery/thriller. Like J.A. Konrath, Karen Slaughter, Mariah Stewart. Stuff like that.

But a couple years back I was desperate for something to take on a trip and (I never read NYT best sellers, but...) I happened upon A LONG WAY DOWN by Nick Hornby. ANd even though it has an odd story premise, I absolutely loved it. I still recommend it to people to this day.

Blurb:

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.

Karen Syed

http://karensyed.blogspot.com
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I don't have a genre, I read pretty much everything.

Although, I really can't read sci fi without confused.

There was one book classified in the sci-fi section that didn't confuse me, and I loved it.

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.

They are hysterically wonderful books.

Like Monty Python in space.
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my usual genre is fantasy/romance

but i really loved the book The Sacrifice it is historical fiction about the salem witch trials

i also loved The Perks of Being a Wallflower

it was amazing and unique

(these are both ya books but they are fantastic)
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I usually do not like fantasy. At all. But the Harry Potter novels are some of my favorite novels of all time. There's just something about them that I really can't describe.
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i love sci fi stuff and magic stuff but i love the astonishing life of octavian nothing book it is amazing :)

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