What ever looks good. History, as long as the author makes it entertaining. Dave Barry, Bill Bryson, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, H. Ryder Haggard, Jules Verne, Victorian adventure novels. preferably with original illustrations, true organized crime (I think the Godfather and the Sopranos pale compared to the real thing), Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, cook books, comic strip collections, and once every two or three years I re-read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, probably the best book ever written in any language.