My taste is almost totally dependent on my mood.
These days I'm in a fairly rebellious mood. . I'm in a search of social theory from North Africa and the Persian Gulf; fiction and poetry from South America; and South East Asia history and literature, especially Bangladeshi and Indian.
Otherwise, I tend to favor biographies, twentieth century history and satire.
I'm just over a third of the way through Huntington's Who Are We? and I feel I'm beginning to understand the logic of the more sophisticated editors at Murdoch's News Corp.