Genres

I'll read just about anything that can grab and hold my attention and I do accept materials from publishers and authors. 

I have a small collection of autographed copies of favorites. However, many of my favorite authors passed on before I was born. 

I have an odd relationship with classics. I'm more likely to read them and place them at the top of my favorite genres list and then never read them again. Unless, of course, they come up as a subject of a challenge I'm involved in. I've pondered the reasoning behind my actions and the only thing I can come up with is perhaps, that I read classics more as a rhythmic creative work than a natural one. Here are my top picks for authors by genre.

Children's- Lewis Carroll 

Fiction - Gene Stratton Porter

Non-Fiction Adventure - Jon Krakauer 

Autobiography- Anne Frank

Suspense- Mary Higgins Clark

Gothic - Edgar Alan Poe

Romance male- Nathaniel Hawthorne 

American Classic - Harper Lee

Art- Tasha Tudor

British Classic- Charles Dickens

Poetry- William Butler Yeats 

Sport- Blake Sebring

Cooking- Jaques Pepin

Romance Female- Jane Austen

19th Century- Lousia May Alcott

Science Fiction - Aldous Huxley

Thriller- Jeffrey Deaver

Fantasy- C.S. Lewis

Historical - Margaret Ringenberg

Audible- How the Grinch Stole Christmas- Walter Matthua


All the words that I utter,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darken’d or starry bright. 
William Butler Yeats