What is your favourite (non genealogy) book?

I collect most of the responses for my GeniMates blog profiles via Google Forms. One of the questions I as is "What is your favourite (non genealogy) book?"

The Normal View of the spreadsheet on which the responses are collated  allows me to see all the responses to any of the questions on the form as a list. This list does not include the responses for those who have contributed their profiles by other means. You'll have to dip into the GeniMates profiles for those suggestions.

As it is National Year of Reading in Australia I thought it would be fun to see what genealogists have nominated as their personal favourites.

What is your favourite (non genealogy) book?

• I've had to think too long for this question so there mustn't be a favourite. I read lots of books for my day job as a teacher librarian.
• To many to list
• Universe Bends Toward Justice: A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S.
• Too many.  I enjoy biographies and autobiographies but I suppose that it related to genealogy!  This changes all the time.  I would recommend "Bridie's Fire" by Kirsty Murray although again genealogy related because it is fiction set in historical Melbourne.
• Lord of the Rings
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville. (May be classified as borderline genealogy...)
• Anything by Dean Koontz
• "Giants in the Earth" by O.E. Rolvaag
• My grandfather's photograph album
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (hope I'm allowed three!)
• Jane Austen's novels
• There are too many to really mention, but one that springs to mind is A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute.
• Sarum, Edward Rutherford
• The Bayeux Tapestry by David M Wilson
• I have many favoutite books but right now I am revisiting an old favourite - Wuthering Heights. I also enjoy anything written by Alexander McCall Smith
• At the Mountains of Madness - H.P Lovecraft
• Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
• Lots of books, but my recent favorite is "The Help."
• Anything by Jane Austen
• All That Happened at Number 26 - Denise Scott
• The Voyage of their life: Diane Armstrong.
• "Dover Harbour" by Thomas Armstrong, published in the 1940s.  A historical novel set in the town during the turn of the 19th Century...
• The Poldark novels
• Not a good reader so don't have a favourite book.
• Mysts of Avalon
• My favorite book is often the one I just finished. My favorite genre is mysteries.
• Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Murder mystery
• Jean Auel Prehistoric series
• Orson Scott Card's "Ender" Series
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 
• Currently Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden
• Scriptures
• Anything by Jane Austen...yes I'm one of those.
• Willa Cather's “Death Comes to the Archbishop”   and   Howard Rugg's “Imagination”
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Classic - Jane Eyre Modern - We Have To Talk About Kevin

 What do you read when you are not ancestor hunting?