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I was thinking about this thread, and my approach to book topics. I'm a big fan of "harmless" in most of my fiction reads. No horrible drama, no violence, no erotica, I prefer easy read "clean" type books.
For more meat in my reading, I will read more weighty topics from say Anne Tyler, or authors like her who are good at writing the "human condition" without gratuitous sex and violence.
I do read dramatic non-fiction. There is so much interesting history to learn about, in the US, and other locations around the globe. It can be disturbing to read about the horrors men have done to men in the past, or in current times, but I don't want it in my before bed harmless reads. I have still not totally finished The Last Days Of Old Bejing for this very reason.
I don't want revisionist history in my non-fiction, or the past sanitized in my fiction. I do want the fiction to be at least mostly well researched. And I appreciate the wide range of choices that we all have in our reading.
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