Lady Elanor wrote: As a Christian do you naturally gravitate towards reading Christian novels, or do you read a good amount of non Christian reading material as well?
I've grown up reading primarily from two sources: my family's fairly extensive library (heavy on 50s'-through-80s' science fiction), and our local public library's science fiction and fantasy section. (And, to a lesser extent, books that I got at Friends-of-the-Library book sales because they looked interesting.) Neither of these specifically labels any fiction titles as "Christian"; while my parents have, I believe, discarded books that were too offensively opposed to the Faith, they certainly haven't made novels' nominal worldview a primary factor in whether they are bought or kept. And in the period they were buying most of the books, "Christian publishing" houses didn't publish the kinds of fiction they were interested in buying.
Lady Elanor wrote: Do you often find yourself looking for Christian parallels in books you read, even if the book wasn't written by a Christian?
Looking for them? No. Finding them? Yes, which isn't surprising given that Christianity both is (or, rather, describes) the fundamental Truth of the cosmos and underlies a great deal of our society's cultural heritage.
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) steer away from most Christian fiction because I've been burned by a lot of poorly written material. However if I'm going to read a romance, I only ever read Christian. I think that's pretty much one of the only genres Christian fiction has nailed... not sure if that's a good or bad thing. 
Mostly though, I gravitate towards reading secular YA fiction if I'm going to read fiction (which I don't do a lot of these days). The dystopian theme that's been going lately has me hooked. 