I'm a pretty indiscriminant reader, in the sense that I'll read anything I can get my hands on. Fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, magazines, whatever. It's hard for me to pick out just a few books as my favorites. There are too many books that are good in too many different ways, and I always tend to prefer whatever I'm reading at the moment.
I do write sometimes, but I'll usually start out with one good idea, and then run into trouble when I try to develop it into a full story. So most of my "stories" end up as nothing more than writing excercises. Maybe someday I'll finish one, but I'm honestly in no hurry.