I have never been much into bio's - but I am starting. Read one book about Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop, now a work on Otto Wagner, viennese Jugendstil architect (art nouveau) - the book starts with "something unpractical can't be beautiful". I always loved his architecture, have to read more about architecture I guess and not only the IT-usability stuff.
I like Harry Potter books - I read it in english to keep practicing (and children's books are great to keep up with your foreing language knowledge), tough have to admit you have to surive the first 70 pages of book 1, if you have done that, you are in.
Read the Chronicles of Narnia last year.
At the moment I am diving deep into Austrian, Bavarian, Swiss, south-eastern French, North-Italian, Lichtenstein-ian, North-Slovenian literature - it is fun to read books because of location (and tough to find books this way).
I do a lot of book swaping with friends and relatives - and the great thing about is that you get to know authors you might have never bought.
Generally I love Murakami, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig and Almudena Grandes books and my latest "best laugh" was propaply Tom Robbins in german it is "Panaroma" the english title is "Jitterbugh Perfume" (or similar). This guy is a little obsessed (you know "boy's stuff"), but a true intellectual (for me an uncivilized, rebel Borges).