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I read Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London as a little bit. Also books about insects that live in societies, bees, termites, especially ants.

Mother found my aquarium filled with an ant colony hid in a closet in third grade, there was quite a demonstration put on about that. I barely talked her into letting my transplant the colony to the yard, she seemed to have murderous intent upon them to me at 8. I know now that here obsession with cleanliness was likely the cause, but I'm a self centered male, what do I know.

I read Bruce Catton's books in third grade to add a bit of change, then went on to Shelby Foote though I had to wait until high school for him to complete his trilogy, so history in mega doses for years.

Heinlan, Tolkien, Asimov type stuff was more for college, read all the Hemingway and Faulkner, but I went to Ole Miss so the Faulkner was a given.

Minored in English Lit, stuck mainly to Shakespeare, Romantic period, Elizabethan era, late 19th century, Yeats, Hopkins, all that. Poetry was a nice reprieve from statistics and didn't have to see any men about just the daydreaming young ladies. Of course everything was live then.

Now I read a 100 or so books a year, pulp nonsense for the most part, quite a bit of history still. Amazon loves me I would think.

*sips coffee*

I order that from them also.