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Interesting topic and will for sure look into a number of these.  Most of my books now are the audio version while spending more than my fair share of time in a car! 

CURRENT:

Craig Counsell: All it takes is all ya got  - Rich Wolfe

OTHER RECENT:

NYPD Red 6 - James Patterson

Mint Condition (How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession) - Dave Jamison

Nut Jobs: Cracking The Case - Marc Fennell

Hockey Card Stories 2 - Ken Reid     (I saw Double B mentioned Hockey Card Stories - I haven't read the first version, but the 2nd was kind of fun - might have to pick up that first version!)

Currently reading 3 short novels (really novellas) by Dostoevsky. 

If you are looking a nice list of recommendations, check out Kieth Laws top 100 books. 2 books from that list that I read that were amazing:

The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Murakami

If on a Winters Night A Traveler... by Italian Calvino

Currently reading Killing Commmendatore by Murakami. I've read a ton of Murakami since I moved to Japan and enjoyed all of them. I would also reccommend Shogun by Clavell and the rest of his series. 

I've read all of Clavell's - great books for historical fiction.

The last book I read (10 years or so ago) Dave Ramsey financial peace

Books that kept you up at night, for me it was Helter Skelter, written by one of the prosecuters of Charles Manson. I read it 40 years ago and it still creeps me out.

I don't read as much as I used to but am on my second book this year. Currently reading "The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: The Era That Created Modern Sports" by Kevin Cook. Prior to that I read Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. Not sure what my next book will be. Perhaps Ball Four- which, believe it or not, I've never read.

I used to be a voracious reader, reading on average one book every two days. I read literally every WWII book in my local library. And WWI which was maybe 1/5th the amount. 

Then I got my smartphone, and then tablet, and the time I dedicated to reading was now being spent on the internet. I generally do not enjoy the internet but I do it every day unless I force myself not to. 

Now I'm lucky if I read one magazine a month. I need to get back to reading actual printed books because they are so much more enjoyable than reading Facebook, twitter and yes, here. Yet here I am again, reading the forum and knowing that I will check the other sites I check on a daily basis instead of reading one of the magazines that is literally inches away. 

I did read most of the March/April Archaeology Magazine that arrived yesterday. It's my favorite publication and I wish it was monthly.  If my health had not been so bad I would have been an archaeologist or historian in some form.

I am reading 3 books right now

1. The Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis

2. From Cuba to Cooperstown: The biography of Tony Perez by John Erardi

3. Finding Fish:A Memoir by Antwone Fisher. I saw a movie about his life from homeless, to the US Navy and beyond. He wrote a poem called Who will cry for the little boy? (every man should read this because some part will fit you).